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Integrating Magento Products With a WordPress Blog
December 16, 2011 | iWeb Team
As web developers we like to make use of the best open source platforms available in the development of our brochure and e-commerce websites. We often find that differences in clients needs mean that the solution provided makes use of different platforms such as Magento …
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- Magento, Opensource, php, Plugin
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- Magento, Plugins, Web Development, WordPress
Magento Link Manager Plugin
December 05, 2011 | iWeb Team
Whilst developing several Magento E-Commerce Stores i came across this handy little plugin that provides simple control over which front-end links to display.
I am currently using this plugin to disable Recurring Profiles, My Downloadable Products and Billing Agreements from …
- Tags:
- Development, e-commerce, Magento, Open Source, Plugin, Plugins
- Categories:
- Magento, Plugins, Web Development
File Permissions & Associated Security Risks with Magento
September 22, 2011 | iWeb Team
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 | iWeb Team
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 …
- Tags:
- Magento, News, Open Source
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- Magento
Google Website Optimiser
September 22, 2011 | iWeb Team
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 …
- Tags:
- Conversion, Google, Magento, Open Source, Optimisation, ROI, SEO, Testing, User Experience
- Categories:
- Magento
AJAX Quick Shopping with Magento
September 21, 2011 | iWeb Team
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 …
- Tags:
- Magento, Plugin, ROI, User Experience
- Categories:
- Magento
Sorting Products by Bestsellers, Most Viewed, Top Rated & Date Added in Magento
September 21, 2011 | iWeb Team
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 …
- Tags:
- Magento, Plugin, User Experience
- Categories:
- Magento
Reasons to upgrade with Magento Community Edition Version 1.6
September 20, 2011 | iWeb Team
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 …
Customers Also Bought This Functionality with Magento
September 20, 2011 | iWeb Team
It’s important to link to other products from your product pages in Magento. Out of the box we have the functionality to list “related” and “upsell” products on this page, however you will have to set-up these product links manually …
- Tags:
- Magento, Plugin, ROI, User Experience
- Categories:
- Magento
Improving Magento with Ajax Add to Basket Functionality
September 20, 2011 | iWeb Team
Magento out of the box doesn’t have the best approach to adding products to your shopping basket, however we can improve this quite easily using a Magento plug-in called “AJAX Cart Pro” (http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/magento-extensions/ajax-cart-pro.html). It features the ability to add products …
- Tags:
- Magento, Optimisation, Plugin, ROI, Speed, User Experience
- Categories:
- Magento