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…)

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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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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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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…)

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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…)

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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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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…)

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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…)

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