Magento Tips

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Sometimes it is needed to urgently disable and clear Magento compiler, e.g. after installation or some 3rd party Magento module.

If you have active Magento compiler, it is always recommended to disable it before any module installation. You can easy to do it in Magento administrator panel, but what if you installed module by mistake, when compiler was active? Most likely your Magento admin panel will be not accessible.

On February 1, 2012 Magento announced the end-of-life of Magento Professional edition.

Phasing out Magento Professional will allow Magento to focus their efforts and investments on enhancing Magento Enterprise, Enterprise Premium and Magento Community solutions.

If you have SSH access to your Linux (or Unix) server you can easy re-index Magento database from Linux command shell.

You can use such re-index method to decrease load on your server. The PHP shell commands will be executed directly, without Apache overloading.

If you want to install some module from Magento Connect, but you cannot use 'Magento Connect Manager' for some reason, in this case you can download Magento module package in TGZ file format manually and upload it to your Magento store via FTP or control panel file manager.

Sometimes after Magento modules installation, you can see 404 page not found error in your Magento administration zone.

Facebook Open Graph 2.0 module for Magento allows store administrator to add "Want" and "Own" buttons to Magento products. When customer clicks "Want" on a product, this product will be added to Wish list (or Gallery) in his/her Facebook account. Moreover, all Facebook friends will see that visitor want this product.

Apache files compression is the fastest way to improve your Magento website speed and performance.

It is recommended to check compression status before and after compression activation. You can easily check compression and data savings level using http://www.whatsmyip.org/http-compression-test/ online service.

If you get this error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function extend() on a non-object in /public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Mysql4/Config.php on line 115

After MySQL dump import in a Magento database, most likely Magento MySQL tables had wrong values in some fields.