Magento infinite HTML escape for attribute option values and labels
Magento 1.6 seems to contain a bug that infinitly escapes dropdown and multiselect attribute values. For you as the end user this means that when you add an option like “M&M” Magento will escape...
View ArticleRemove ‘Orders and Returns’ from default Magento footer
In Magento 1.6 they’ve added an extra link to the footer called ‘orders and returns’. This link however is added using an ‘addLinkBlock’ call, which doesn’t have a remove equivalent. Normal links added...
View ArticleAlways show shipping costs in Magento
Sometimes you just need one shipping method, or perhaps 99% of your customers use a specific method. This is often the case for European shops serving just one country. By default, Magento allows...
View ArticleMagento product list AJAX scroll
Category and search result pages revolve around product lists. Magento allows you to control the amount of products that your webshop shows. Magento even lets the customer decide how many products he...
View ArticleMagento LAMP vs WIMP: Introduction
When choosing a webserver stack, used to run PHP applications like Magento, a LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) stack is favored. Although nginx with php-fpm is on the rise, Apache on Linux is still the...
View ArticleMagento LAMP vs WIMP: Running Magento with IIS and WinCache
Let’s get started by getting IIS up and running with WinCache. Getting your IIS up and running with PHP itself is easy. Add the IIS role to your Windows Server setup in the Feature Manager and browse...
View ArticleMagento product list AJAX scroll v1.1
Last month I posted an article describing our free Magento extension: Magento product list AJAX scroll. It enables your customers to view more products at less effort, hence having a positive influence...
View ArticleMagento store pickup
More and more retailers extend their business into the wonderful realm of eCommerce to offer their goods online. Buying online has been on the rise for a few years now. However there are still a lot of...
View ArticleRemove unused Magento product images
Magento has the nasty habit of leaving unused product image files in it’s var/media directory. If you, like one of our clients, import your catalog at a regular interval using Magento’s Dataflow or...
View ArticleMagento product list AJAX scroll v2.0
A year ago, I posted an article describing our free Magento extension: Magento product list AJAX scroll v1.1. It enables your customers to view more products at less effort, hence having a positive...
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