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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Which shopping cart / ecommerce platform to choose? [duplicate]
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Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use?
I need to build an ecommerce website within a tight budget and schedule. Of course, I have never done that before, so I have googled ...
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hourly deal extension magento 1.5
I want to implement hourly basis product deal on my website using magento 1.5,
administrator has to handle on deal date , time and time duration for that particular product deal,
can u please suggest ...
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Is there a Magento extension for combining/compressing javascript and css?
I thought Magento came with this feature out of the box but it doesn't appear to be working at all. I'm not sure if I haven't set it up properly, but right now I'm resorting to using cat and altering ...
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Previews for audio e-commerce site
Is there a way to do previews for audio files in the base, Magento Community Edition? I see the place to put the "sample" files under "Downloadable information" section on my product. I attached an ...
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How to get Magento to update order status when PayPal returns IPN message?
When someone checks out in Magento with PayPal, and PayPal flags their payment for review, Magento correctly sets the order status to "Payment Review". However, if after a day or two PayPal decides ...
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How to check all installed in magento extensions?
Where can I check all the installed magento extensions in the admin panel?
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How do I replace the Magento favicon?
I'm trying to replace the Magento favicon, but I can't seem to find it. Where is it?
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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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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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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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Magento Default Sitemap.xml
Is the default magento sitemap.xml optimized as is for ecommerce products? I'm thinking about adding image links as well. Is it worth time investing in this for SEO gains?
<url>
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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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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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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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Adding a CMS to an existing Magento shop
I am working on a project for 3 niche stores built on magento (using magento's multi-store function) that each get roughly 50k unique visitors a day. The sites don't currently have a blog or forum or ...
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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 do I increase the image size upload limit in Magento?
Is there a way to increase the maximum image upload file size from 2mb to 5 or 10mb?
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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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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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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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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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What's the best magento plugin to add support for affiliates?
I'm using magento 1.5 and prefer to install modules from Magento Connect. Any suggestions?
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Magento e-Commerce cannot generate reports
Good day,
My magento cannot generate reports from the admin panel. I get the following error:
This report depends on timezone configuration. Once timezone is changed, the lifetime statistics need to ...
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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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Orgranizing a large amount of unique (non-product) static content in Magento?
Some of you may have seen my previous question where I was asking how websites that don't offer especially 'interesting' content go about link building - particularly in the case of e-commerce. The ...
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Knowledge Base solution for Magento? [closed]
I'm looking for a knowledge base solution for magento. Does anybody know of any available?
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Total / Lifetime Sales on Magento Dashboard is incorrect
After updating from Magento 1.2 to 1.4 I noticed that the Lifetime Sales amount was incorrect (other sales reports are fine). Even after making a fake order the Lifetime Sales didn't change. I tried ...
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Suspicion about Magento licencing
I have been doing webdesign for a small business in Denmark, which alrady have a deal with a larger company to create the final site.
Among this companys proposal, I see that they charge a rather ...
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Magento: When paying with Paypal, shipping cost is charged twice
I'm using Magento 1.4.2.
When I'm paying for an order with Paypal, the total is calculated allright but then Paypal charges twice for the shippment.
Im not using any custom modules.
Any idea why ...
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Magento Community secure?
Has anyone used the Magento Community version for a live site?
http://www.magentocommerce.com/product/compare#comparison-chart
Ive used ubercart for a few sites and im wondering if the free version ...
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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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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 backend gives me a blank page when trying to edit order of more than $4,000
Typically, the orders I have received have been less than $1,000, comprising of less than 10 products. I had no problem editing those order (removing out of stock items, etc).
In the past month, I ...
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Magento project management - source control
Need some advice on project management with Magento.
I have been putting my whole project under source control but its becoming a nightmare to manage. I am now thinking of installing a base magento ...
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Magento Order Invoices - Text TINY, how do I enlarge it?
When printing invoices (PDF) from Magento, the font is 7px... it's absolutely tiny, half my customers probably won't be able to read it, is there a way to make it 12+?
Thanks.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Getting the filename associated with a sample in the “Downloadable Information” area in Magento
I'm working on a customization of the "Samples" block on Products. Basically what I need to know is how to get the file name from a sample.
So, I can use the following code in my view to get an array ...
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Adding jPlayer to Magento site
I've got a simple, working demo page using jPlayer, which I built using the following guide:
http://www.jplayer.org/latest/quick-start-guide/step-8-audio/
That was pretty straight forward.
Now I'm ...
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Magento checkout with Paypal
I've setup paypal on Configuration > Sales > Paypal a thousand times, but still not getting the Paypal option listed in the Payment methods on the Checkout process. And yes, I have filled out all the ...
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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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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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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 ...
