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Listing out Previous/Next products in Magento (Inchoo_Prevnext extension)
There are several Previous/Next extensions out there for Magento by now. Honestly I do not know how any of them works as I never used any :). I decided to code my own since I wanted to tackle the...
View ArticleBuilding a “Facebook Like” button extension for Magento in 15 minutes
Facebook LIKE button is pretty easy and straight forward to implement. All you need to do is to copy paste 2-3 sections from Facebook developer site adjust them to your needs and you are done. Since we...
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Adding product image lightbox effect using jQuery plugin (a better way)
This is not a copy-paste kind of tutorial. It is made for beginners so please try to understand what is going on before you start copying the code. If you are an experienced developer you can skip to...
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Prepared filter for Magento admin grids
Maybe you can ask yourself why do I need prepared data for filters in my collections – in Magento admin grids. Well, I can perhaps create new grid and action for some custom functionality and show such...
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Simple social sharing buttons in Magento
There are a lot of ways to add social sharing buttons to your Magento store. You can choose from several different free or paid extensions, create your own, use services like AddThis or even paste the...
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Create a Color Switcher in Magento
Magento comes packed with a lot of options. But, no matter how many options you put into some product, you can never cover all of them. One of such options (for now) is a color switcher in Magento. To...
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Magento Shopping Cart Promotion Rule for Product with Custom Options
Magento is a great eCommerce platform, it comes with so many built in features some of which you will probably never use. However one feature that we hear a lot of complain about is the lack of...
View ArticleProduct Stock Alerts (not) working
Recently one of our clients had contacted us and said that ProductAlert functionality doesn’t work any more. After I investigated the situation I saw that last email regarding to Stock Alerts was sent...
View Article301 redirects vs canonical links in Magento
What can you do to prevent duplicated content of products from different stores? Recently we’ve received one inquiry to optimize an existing Magento website. Shortly, there are 2 stores with codes:...
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How to add custom product relations in Magento
Currently there are three types of product relations in Magento: Up-sells, Related Products, and Cross-sell Products. Recently while discussing client’s requirements, we’ve come to conclusion it would...
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Custom Product Option and its use-case in Magento
This post is actually short tutorial on how to create custom option for product and how to extend Magento Sale Order grid to show custom option as “Delivery Date”. This is beginner guide tutorial so if...
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Related products, Up-sells, Cross-sells in Magento
In Magento there are three types of product relations: Up-sells, Related Products, and Cross-sell Products. Two of them appear while viewing a product, and one usually appears in the shopping cart....
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More Flexible Approach to Listing Sale Products in Magento
Some clients have a need to show product on sale on homepage, or, sometimes, to filter products on sale in each category individually. In this post i’ll show you two ways of listing products on sale:...
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Display product’s rating beyond the review page
Reviews are another one of numerous excellent features in Magento. Usage of reviews can increase visitors’ trust in your brand, which, in return boosts your sales by a significant amount. Sometimes...
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Get rewritten product url in a different store
It was pointed out to me in one of the preceding articles that getting a product’s URL in a different store can get pretty complicated if the URL you want to get is rewritten. I decided to come up with...
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Sort products by sold quantity in Magento
Magento by default comes with a few basic product sorting options such as sorting by product position, name or price. In this article you’ll learn how to sort products by how many times they have been...
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Shell script for converting configurable to grouped products
A couple of weeks ago my colleague Attila Fabrik and I had a really complex but interesting task. We had to develop a shell script that converts configurable products to grouped products. Our Magento...
View ArticleProgrammatically create upsell, cross sell and related products in Magento
This article will explain how to add upsell, cross sell and related products programmatically to Magento. One of practical examples would be data migration from some other ecommerce system to Magento....
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Add custom image field for custom options
We had a request from a client who wanted to display images for custom options. In this article, I’ll explain how to add the image field to the custom option in admin. Create new module...
View ArticleUsing Zend for intensive data processing
Sometimes there are cases where a lot of data processing needs to be done and using Magento models and resources is either too slow or too intensive for your solution. This is when Zend framework on...
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