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Magento performance: Optimize MySQL settings for your Magento database using Tuning Primer shell script

The Tuning Primer is a shell script that allows you to review the MySQL settings and make adjustments to increase Magento database performance and stability. The script will analyze MySQL statistics and provide you with recommendations on how to fine-tune your MySQL server.

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Bugfixes: Product images not showing in Magento

Sometimes in Magento, even if you successfully uploaded product image in back-end, Magento do not show the image in customer front-end. There are several possible reasons for such behavior, here is the short checklist for this problem.

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Facebook Open Graph 2.0 for Magento, add 'Want' and 'Own' buttons to your products

Facebook Open Graph for Magento

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.

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Magento performance: How to improve Magento speed using Apache/Gzip files compression

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.

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Magento Tips: Magento Fatal error: Call to a member function extend() on a non-object

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.

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Magento Tips: Magento Connect is not working properly after Magento transfer

Magento Connect

Magento Connect is a great feature that download PEAR packages from Magento Connect marketplace and automatically install modules.

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