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What to expect from Magento Community Edition v1.7

February 06, 2012 | Matt

The next major update for Magento Community Edition is on the horizon, but what can we expect from it? Quite a lot actually, I’ll run through the highlights of the release in this post, but of course it contains many …

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Fix Magento Cart/Checkout Blank Page with Compilation Enabled

February 01, 2012 | Matt

We’ve recently encountered an issue where in the Magento Community Edition v1.6.x branch, when compilation is enabled it can cause a blank page (also known as “White Screen of Death – WSOD”), in the cart and checkout sections of the …

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Change WordPress email sender

January 17, 2012 | Phil

Email sent using the wp_mail function has its sender name and email address set to fairly useless default values.

We give WordPress our site name and an email address in the settings screen of WordPress, wouldn’t it be better to …

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Customising WordPress wp_list_pages()

January 10, 2012 | Gareth

I recently worked on a project that required some html customisation of the wp_list_pages() function. In order to style the list I needed to wrap a <span> tag around the existing link text inside the function. Here is the complete …

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Ajax add to Cart – Added To All New Magento Stores

January 09, 2012 | Ian

Over the holiday period our super geeks here at iweb have been working hard to bring the latest and greatest features to all of our new Magento Stores, more about this can be read in the iWeb Custom Magento Build…

Ajax

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iWeb Custom Magento Build – Making Your E-commerce Store Better

January 09, 2012 | Ian

Over the holiday period our super geeks here at iweb have been working hard to bring the latest and greatest features to all of our new Magento Stores. A summary of which can be seen below.

Facebook Open Auth Login…

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Facebook OAuth Login – Added to All New Magento Stores

January 06, 2012 | Ian

Over the holiday period our super geeks here at iweb have been working hard to bring the latest and greatest features to all of our new Magento Stores, more about this can be read in the iWeb Custom Magento Build

Facebook …

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Speeding up Magento Dataflow (Import/Export)

January 05, 2012 | Matt

Importing and Exporting data in Magento using the data-flow profiles has never been particularly quick, neither does it always work perfectly every time around. This article covers how to clear up unsuccessful imports and tips to speed the process up. …

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Responsive video embedding with FitVids.JS and WordPress

January 04, 2012 | Phil

So you’ve built a fantastic, modern responsive website, perhaps using one of the fancy grid systems available. However, your videos don’t resize as gracefully as you’d like.

This is where FitVids.JS comes in. This jQuery plugin does all the heavy …

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Magento Debugging Tip

January 04, 2012 | Cameron

Does Magento Development leave you wondering why your not getting the correct result?

Do you struggle to see where the error(s) may be?

Developing for Magento can sometimes leave a web developer confused and frustrated especially when pin-pointing coding errors/problems, …

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