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Prevent WordPress from automatically linking images to their attachment page
October 12, 2011 | Phil
By default WordPress links images to their attachment page. While this can be useful functionality, the majority of WordPress users rarely remember to click the “none” button.
This default link behaviour can be changed with a quick entry in your …
- Tags:
- CMS, User Experience, WordPress Training
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- WordPress
Installing W3 Total Cache to improve WordPress performance
September 28, 2011 | Phil
Can installing a plugin really magically speed up your website? I’ve been playing with W3 Total Cache and its various options to boost performance to find out…
W3 Total Cache allows you to easily add many tweaks to your website …
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- Performance, Plugins, Speed, WordPress Training
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- WordPress
Take control of your WordPress admin with Spring Clean
September 28, 2011 | Gareth
As a regular user of WordPress I very often work on websites that require a lot of increased functionality. With this usually comes a fair amount of plugins filling up my sidebar. To remedy this problem we have developed our …
14.9% of all websites use WordPress
September 26, 2011 | dave
New statistics released by W3Tech show that WordPress is the worlds most popular content management system.
WordPress is used by 54.3% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 14.9% of all websites.
Source: W3Tech…
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- Open Source, Statistics, Stats, WordPress Training
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- WordPress
File Permissions & Associated Security Risks with Magento
September 22, 2011 | Matt
Magento has been under a lot criticism for it’s Magento Connect Manager requiring “chmod 777″ permissions across your files and folders in order for it to work correctly, this is obviously rather risky from a security point of view and …
eBay’s acquisition of Magento
September 22, 2011 | Matt
Earlier on this summer eBay Inc agreed to acquire Magento with deal worth over $180 Million. eBay already owned a 49% stake in Magento worth at least $90 Million. This is all part eBay’s new global X.commerce group plan, which …
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- Magento, News, Open Source
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- Magento
Google Website Optimiser
September 22, 2011 | Ian
An introduction to Google Website Optimiser
Before we get started lets cover the basics first, some of you may be wondering what Google Website Optmiser is and how it can add value to your Magento Store.
In a nutshell Google …
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- Conversion, Google, Magento, Open Source, Optimisation, ROI, SEO, Testing, User Experience
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- Magento
AJAX Quick Shopping with Magento
September 21, 2011 | Matt
We’ve recently been playing with a plug-in for “Quick Shopping” in one of our client websites, this allows an AJAX loaded on-screen pop-up to appear to get more information about a product without leaving the category product list itself. It …
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- Magento, Plugin, ROI, User Experience
- Categories:
- Magento
Sorting Products by Bestsellers, Most Viewed, Top Rated & Date Added in Magento
September 21, 2011 | Matt
By default in Magento you can sort your product list or grid by your attributes such as SKU, Product Name, Manufacturer and so on. Or you can sort them by manual position by defining a position number under “Manage Categories …
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- Magento, Plugin, User Experience
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- Magento
Reasons to upgrade with Magento Community Edition Version 1.6
September 20, 2011 | Matt
Magento Community Edition version 1.6 offers several new features over it’s previous version of 1.5.1, in this blog post we’ll go through the highlights and major changes. Explaining why you should upgrade your older version of Magento to the new …