Display best selling product in magento
Want to display the best selling products in your Magento store on the frontpage or anywhere else in your store? The best selling products means the products sold in highest quantity in Ascending order. This functionality is for some strange reason not included in Magento by default so we’ll explain how you can set it up yourself. Full Story
Add Static Block content in template
Normally you would need to add some lines of code in the XML layout files to be able to include a static block from the CMS-system in the Magento Backend, but using this code in the template will automatically fetch the content from the static block: <?php echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock(‘cms/block’)->setBlockId(‘your_cms_block_identifier’)->toHtml() ?> Full Story
Magento and Drupal
We just noticed that a Maxime Topolov had released an integration between Magento and Drupal. The extension-description promise a full integration of both the catalog and orders, everything being possible to manage from the Drupal Admin interface. We currently dont have any Drupal installations up running but as we are looking at designing Drupal themes as well as our Magento themes this extension might be very interesting, so we’ll test this one the coming week. If anyone else have tried it or will be trying it we’d be more than happy to hear your … Full Story
Varien releases the Official Magento User Guide Book
Varien today released the official Magento User Guide Book. We’ve had the abilitity to take a short sneak preview of the book and it looks like a winner to the thousands of Magento-users who has now started working on Magento as their primary ecommerce tool. We love that there’s finally a book about the general usage of Magento and not only the backend/development-part as the real user-masses are the daily users working with sales and products in Magento. Read more and purchase through Varien from this link: http://www.magentocommerce.com/support/magento-user-guide-book Full Story
Magento Book: Beginner’s Guide
Packt Publishing, specialized in books around opensource-solutions, released their first “Beginner’s Guide”-book about Magento. This book will provide you with step-by-step instructions for installing, configuring, and using Magento to run your own e-commerce site. The author will set up an example store in the book with enough information to adapt the instructions according to your needs. This book is for anyone who wants to create an online store using Magento. If you are a non-technical person and are discouraged by the complexity of this powerful e-commerce application, this book is ideal for you. Full Story
Magento Enterprise
Varien released its Enterprise Edition a month ago and here are some thoughts about the release. With over 750k downloads of the community-version and 85k community members Varien knew that many of their users would be interested in a paid Enterprise-version, and after a few months of hard work and countless feedback from the community and their partners Varien released the first Enterprise-version April 15th. Full Story
Magento and Joomla
Joomla, being one of the most popular CMS-systems out there, includes an integration with Virtuemart, a popular ecommerce solution. However, what if you want to use Joomla together with Magento? Then MageBridge is the key! Full Story
WordPress and Magento
With the latest release of Magento 1.3, there really is no escaping the fact that Magento is the number one software for your eCommerce site. With it’s flexibility and scalability there is very little you can’t get Magento to do in an eCommerce environment. Granted, the CMS options could be and perhaps should be a bit more flexible compared to the rest, but they do the trick. There only one thing Magento can’t do and that is blog. Where Magento is becoming the dominant software for eCommerce websites, is WordPress already the most popular … Full Story
Adding SSL-support to Magento
We have got many requests lately about how to add SSL (https)-support in Magento. Here is instructions on how to add SSL-support to a Magento-installation. Who needs SSL? SSL is important for stores who want their customers to be sure everything they enter in the Account-areaand Checkout-area is encrypted along the way from their browser to your server. Stores with payment-gateways where the customer type in their creditcard-information directly in Magento and is not transferred to a secure page at the creditcard-providers servers will also need SSL. So what do I need to get … Full Story
Add Highslide to Magento
Love Highslide? So do we. We’ve even written a manual on how to install and use Highslide in Magento. We’ve used it on the Product-pages to display product-images but it can easily be extended to display images in your CMS-pages, frontpage, etc. Ok, lock the door and watch closely. Step 1: Download the latest version of Highslide Click here to go to the Highslide.com-site and download the latest (stable) version to your local computer. Step 2: Transfer Highslide to your Magento-installation Unzip the Highslide and transfer the files to your Magento skin-folder, for example: … Full Story