Magento is an Ecommerce platform written in PHP. It uses a configuration-based MVC system and heavily leverages Java style OOP patterns in the business logic, UI, and layout rendering application layers.
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Webmaster tools reports fake 404 errors
I have a website where Google Webmaster Tools reports 15,000 links as 404 errors. However, all links return a 200 when I visit them. The problem is, that eventhough I can visit these pages and return ...
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PayPal Payment Not Showing Up In Magento [migrated]
Using PayPal on a Magento 1.4.0.1 site. When a new order from a guest checks out using PayPal the order doesn't receive payment authorization. The status remains at "pending". This doesn't happen in ...
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On an ecommerce site, do “Item No Longer Available” pages hurt SEO?
I'm not the web master at work, but I'm the content manager (and complete SEO novice) with a question we're unsure about. When a product is no longer current and no longer carried in our store, we set ...
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Large increase in 404 hits
We're running a Magento shop and we experienced a significant raise in 404 hits lately, almost 40,000 in one day. Most of the pages are old ones that once existed but don't anymore, and there are some ...
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Ajax mixed with Server Side results for SEO purposes
Here is the issue.
We are using a third party service to index our products and return results based on query parameters that we pass to the third party services server.
I'm using Magento's ...
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How to know all the installed Extensions in a Magento Site?
When I see page source of a website, I can know that a website is running Magento, but how do I know the extensions installed on that store? Is it possible to know from the page source?
EDIT: more ...
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Server responding to request differnetly
I believe as above hosted locally , the long green delay is actually the home page of the website. May i know what causes those delay? Magento is a very CPU intense monster, is it due to the fact ...
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{{depend customVar in transactional emails
What is the correct way of utilizing if/else or depend in trans emails?
De gegevens van uw bestelling #{{var
order.increment_id}}. {{depend comment}}{{var
comment}}{{/depend}}
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Magento: placing available blocks
I've installed a custom theme in Magendo. I browse pages and get shocked. Some pages have blocks, other - no, some have the left sidebar, some - the right. The complete mess.
How can I know all the ...
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Bank Payment with discount
I would like to add a payment option to Magento 1.6.2 that allows customers to choose to pay by bank transfer. I see there is at least one module that will offer this functionality ...
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single product count on multi-order Magento
I am able to filter all of my products a SKU ( product id ). When I do this, every order with this SKU shows up.
My question is how can I count the number of products in each order? I can search for ...
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Payment from Paypal but no order in Magento 1.6.2
I just found a very strange problem and wondered if anyone has seen the same, or maybe knows a fix for this?
We have paperwork for an order payment received through paypal, but the order doesn't ...
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Analysing traffic sources in Analytics for Magento sales
Hi I have a Magento installation linked with a Google Analytics account. It works very well in that I can see conversions, I can see the products that are selling directly from analytics and I can get ...
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How To capture Order changes with Paypal Pro ( Magento )?
I noticed that if I create an order using paypal pro payment method, the payment is corrected captured but when I edit it, adding new items and so increasing the amount, nothing happens on paypal pro ...
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Magento 1.6.2 Catalog Price Rule Problem
My Magento system seems to have a slight issue with Catalog Price Rule application.
As far as the customer is concerned, all is working perfectly.
The problem is that some orders are not being ...
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magento - adding BLOCKTYPE to static block
ok so I installed a plugin. The only option to use it is to place this code in a CMS page:
{{block type="ve_easyslide/list" template="ve/easyslide.phtml"}}.
firstly, what are these blocks of code ...
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Temporarily disable magento extensions from the back end
Is it possible to disable a Magento extension from the backend without uninstalling it or disabling it via the code?
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Magento custom content types
What is the best way to manage custom content types (like in Drupal) in Magento Community? For example I want to make a catalog of jobs (name, desc, image) or catalog of local shops (address, phone, ...
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Is it possible to do shipping like this in Magento?
What I need is to have Magento charge a flat rate shipping for orders under a certain amount, and free shipping for orders over that amount. It's like having two flat rates. I have tried setting a ...
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eCommerce solution for leasing devices for a monthly fee [closed]
What eCommerce solutions there exist which allow leasing type of sales? I am working with a medical tech company whose devices are often leased due to high price point. Now the company would be ...
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Magento Shopping Cart Rule Based on Grand Total?
I was wondering if anyone knew how to set up a shopping cart rule to apply only if the grand total of the cart is >= some certain value. I see that Magento allows you to set up rules based on the ...
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Limit magento title length in admin
I would really like to limit the title length on products in Magento.
What I've tried is adding 'maxlength' => 65 somewhere in \app\code\core\Mage\Adminhtml\Block\, without success.
Does someone ...
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Magento Bulk Product Import + Modules Nightmare
Have 5,000 products in CSV file
File has been re-saved as UT8 file in google documents and exported to CSV from excel
File loads perfectly with all fields in demo of magento store manager (except we ...
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Magento - How to manage multiple base currencies and multiple payment gateways?
I have two requirements to satisfy, I hope someone with more experience can help me sorting them out.
Multiple Base Currencies
My client wants to allow visitors to place orders in whatever currency ...
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Magento payment received email
I have researched to the best of my ability and it seems that there is no way of getting Magento to send an email to the shop owner to let them know that someone has purchased an item which they now ...
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Can I create a private shop with a public gallery with Magento?
I want to do a shop with a public gallery listing all my products, with texts and images. The gallery is not a shop, you cannot buy.
Behind it, I want a private section with a shop, where the same ...
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Getting away from a customized Magento 1.4 installation - Magento 1.6, OpenCart, or others? [closed]
I'm dealing with a Magento 1.4.0.0 Community Edition installation with various undocumented changes to the core (mostly integration with an ERP system), an outdated Sweet Tooth Points & Rewards ...
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Can you host Magento on Heroku?
I have Magento running on Heroku but the DB is on Dreamhost (because Heroku doesn't host mySQL). I get a Database connection error from Magento whenever I try to connect. Anyone ever done this?
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Magento not responding to payment gateway notifications fast enough or at all?
Some of our customers are getting to the confirmation of payment step in purchasing from our Magento store, and then they are getting a timeout error, where the SagePay payment gateway is trying to ...
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What is currently the most stable version of Magento?
I currently run an ecommerce store using Magento CE version 1.3.2.4. There have been many releases that each have had a number of fixes and new issues since then. I'm in the process of planning an ...
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“Pending” status for orders paid via Auth.Net
In my Magento store, I have the following payment methods enabled with these order statuses:
Zero Subtotal Checkout - Pending
Check / Money Order - Pending
Authorize.net (Auth only) - Processing
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Products missing from backend after import
My client imported about 70 products into magneto and the all imported properly it seemed, but now only about half of them appear in the catalog ( backend ) searching for the SKU returns no results. I ...
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Magento - Sort category view on date updated
I'm trying to set the sort order in the category view for magento.
In */app/design/frontend/template_name/default/template/catalog/product/list.phtml* the product category is called this way:
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Which feed does Magento's attribute “In Feed” refer to?
I have been researching Magento's RSS feeds and there is an attribute for new products called 'In Feed'. My understanding was that this determined whether or not the product was added to the RSS ...
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What is the maximum number of products we can have in a Magento website?
I am wondering if Magento can hold unlimited number of products.
Is there any limit in Magento about amount of products we can have?
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Spammers in my Magento blog comment section! [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I prevent spam on sites which I control?
I have Blog extension installed in my Magento website. But i recieve many spam comments
in my blogs, to restrict ...
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Magento mails coming from[ftpUsername]@[servername.hostingcompany.com] on behalf of SENDER
I have a Magento installation, and for certain recipients the transactional emails appear to be coming FROM something like [ftpUsername]@[servername.hostingcompany.com] on behalf of SENDER instead of ...
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Nginx frontend, Apache backend, and Magento
I've got a Magento installation, which works perfectly from a customer's point of view. However, when you try and do batch tasks with the admin, nginx often closes the connection to the browser early, ...
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How do I check if Magento or PayPal is in sandbox mode?
I have configured my PayPal account in my Magento website. But even after I publish my website, there were no orders placed. Now I recieved an order from the website, but there is no money transfer to ...
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How to fix price error for a product in Magento?
I am trying to fix this product listing: http://shop.crystalvine.com/salt/blueberrysalt-c.html
You see in the dropdown there is an option for "refill" which is supposed to say $10.95 but says $45.95
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Magento store has home page url of just ip address and not actual domain name
I am looking into a friend's site which is really old and strange, and it has one thing really weird with it. If you go to the site here: http://www.crystalvine.com and click on "products" on the top ...
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Error after login to Magento on core/Mage/Admin/Model/User.php on line 437
None of out programmers has changed anything to the code, but out of nothing now, when a user tries to login on the backend, we have this error:
Fatal error: Call to a member function children() ...
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Magento - Add to cart error
I have set-up a Magento cart system and got everything working the way i want, but somehow in the process this error has came up.
The address total model should be extended from
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Best way to address this Magento issue
I am in need of some advice/pointers on how best to attack a problem I am faced with in Magento 1.4.0.1.
Here is the scenario:
Consider a product catalog of multiple thousands of products in which ...
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Need assistance matching a general theme style as well as eCommerce capability
I'm in the process of acquiring a new design client. They are getting into the business of "auto parts wholesaling" and they want a storefront. My preference is/was to create something from scratch. ...
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Can I change the magento logging timestamps offset?
Is there a way to change the Mage::log() timestamp in magento? I would prefer it to match my timezone.
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How do I set “Starting at : $12” value for a Grouped product in Magento?
I recently created a grouped product by going through a tutorial. Everything is working fine except for the fact that, in the front end, the text "Starting at : $0.00" is set to "$0.00" instead of the ...
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Best practice for bulk eCommerce product upload?
I'm thinking about opening a large online store for Jewelry, the one thing that really bothers me is managing the actual operation of taking pictures, uploading and describing all the products.
I'm ...
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Configuring thouands of related products in Magento?
I'm at a stage with a Magento store I'm developing where I've added all the products (all 6000 of them) and now would like to configure related products to up my conversion rate a bit. I was wondering ...
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Magento 1.5.1.0 Multi-Store
I am currently running version 1.5.1.0 of Magento and I would like to set up another store with the following:
Both stores using different domains
Shared shopping cart/checkout
Shared codebase
I ...
