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Unable to read response, or response is empty
0 Comments | Posted by sneako in Admin, Checkout, Exceptions
We started to receive some interesting issues with our installation and the checkout procedure. When a customer would click “Submit Order” there would be a 15 second delay and then a jscript popup saying “There was an error processing your order …” (more…)
(ALL OF THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THIS WEBSITE WERE TESTED ON VERSION 1.3.2.4)
This was a fun one to figure out.
The Background: We have a Magento installation which requires two different default product list views; one for featured vendors and the other for the actual products. The way we set it up was by creating a new store view for one of the product lists (“Featured Vendors” which must always remain in list view) and another store view for the other product list (“Products” which must always remain in grid view). (more…)
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Disabled Mage_Core…Now Frontend & Backend Are Blank
0 Comments | Posted by sneako in Whoops/Created Errors
While messing around with the admin settings of Magento you may have stumbled on the ability to enable/disable features of Magento. Among this list is “Mage_Core” which happens to include the basic backbones of the entire operation. You disabled this however and now all pages are blank so you can’t re-enable it. What to do, what to do… (more…)
You may have noticed that by default Magento only shoves the product name up into the page title of any given product page for the front end customers. You say..hey, I want the category there too, what gives!?!? You just have to understand the Magento way of handling meta tags, see below… (more…)
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Add “Add to Cart” Button To “Related Products”
1 Comment | Posted by sneako in Frontend Feature Edits
Tired of the little check boxes within the “Related Products” sidebar? Wish the customer would just have an “Add to Cart” button? Now you can! (more…)
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Change Link In “My Cart” Sidebar To Go To Shopping Cart Instead Of Onepage Checkout
0 Comments | Posted by sneako in Frontend Feature Edits
If you wish to allow the “Checkout” button within the sidebar (“My Cart”) to go to the Shopping Cart instead of the onepage checkout, thus allowing the customer to enter coupons and see estimated shipping perform the following steps: (more…)
When you are viewing your product information screen you may notice that when the product has a tall picture (such as oil & vinegar bottles) only the top of the image is displayed within the picture window (the one right above “Double click on above image to view full picture”). This small change will allow the images to be re-sized to fit this screen. (more…)
The default listing within the “Online Customers” portion of the Magento Admin shows the IPs for the visitors. Unfortunately this leaves the user to having to use google or some other method to reverse those IPs to find out who exactly the visitors are. This small change will show the reversed IPs within Magento Admin automatically. (more…)
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Google Checkout: Read timed out. Your server must respond faster to merchant calculation callback requests.
2 Comments | Posted by sneako in Payment Methods
You may notice this error within the Integration Console error logging system within Google Checkout. This is because Google requires a processing time of 3 seconds between start and finish and you must remove non-required headers/data to fulfill this need. See below for the way to do this. (more…)
You may have noticed that implementing Google Checkout on your Magento installation presents difficulties. This post presents the steps that must be taken in order to setup carrier calculated settings. (more…)
