Magento Development

Magento Development: Add breadcrumbs on a page via XML layout

The following article may be useful for front-end developers, it describes how to add breadcrumbs on the page (where it is not supposed to be by default) using layout XML and minimal PHP programming. It describes adding of 2-levels breadcrumbs (i.e. "Home / Some page") which is needed in most cases.

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Magento performance: Optimization of Magento configurable products

Magento performance: Optimization of Magento configurable products

If you use configurable products in your Magento store and your super attribute have a lot of options (thousands of options), you can experience the following performance issues:

  • Loading time of a configurable product page is more than other pages (especially when Magento cache is disabled)
  • When you add a configurable product to store cart, cart page become slow
  • When configurable product is added to store cart, all store pages become slow

In this article I will show how to debug such issues and how to fix the speed issue I described above.

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10 Rules of Wisdom: What you need to know to build a successful Magento store

Everybody knows that there are many successful stores running Magento. However, there are many others which are not successful or who cannot open the store after years of development. There are different reasons for that, but I tried to collect most common mistakes of the store owners. Most of them are obvious though.

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Magento Go: Custom Tabs on Product Details Pages

Magento Go product tabs

In this article we will show how to enhance your Magento Go product details pages with custom Ajax tabs.

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Security: Important Magento & Zend Framework Security Update for Magento 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x and 1.7.x versions

The Zend Framework vulnerability potentially allows an attacker to read any file on the web server where the Zend XMLRPC functionality is enabled. So potentially an attacker can read configuration file of your Magento installation.

It is very important to apply security patches that were released by Magento yesterday.

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Magento development: Automatic Related Products (from the same category) on Product Details Page

Automatic Related Products

Related products is one of the greatest up-sell features in Magento. However, the bad thing is that you need to assign related products for each product manually. It could be very time-consuming operation if you have a large product catalog.

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Magento development: Add new Total row to Magento Shopping cart / Checkout

In this article I will show how to add a new Total row e.g. "Insurance" to Magento Shopping cart / Checkout.

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Magento Showcase Stores: Spring 2012 Portfolio Highlight

We are happy to announce the launch of several websites based on Magento platform. All these websites were launched recently and already added to our public Magento portfolio. Check our latest Magento showcase stores.

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