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Object-specific Layout Update Handles

21st MAY 2013 | Posted by Zvonimir Buric in Events & Observers, Extensions, Frontend, Magento, Programming, Tips

Every HTTP request in Magento results with a few layout handles which can be used to customize layout of desired pages. If you ever tried to dump layout handles in Magento, …

Newsletter auto-subscribe on create account and place order in Magento

20th MAY 2013 | Posted by Marko Martinovic in Events & Observers, Extensions, Magento, Programming

By default Magento provides a Newsletter feature, which enables store administrators to send newsletters to customers who have registered to receive them. Since most customers tend not to opt-in to …

Automatic Cross Related Products – CSV Import

16th MAY 2013 | Posted by Ivan Galambos in Extensions, Magento, Programming

If you have configurable products that have been associated with simple products, you can assign configurable products to related products. You probably know how this task can be boring. To …

Per product meta robots tag control in Magento

8th MAY 2013 | Posted by Marko Martinovic in Extensions, Magento, Programming

My first Magento related task here at Inchoo was to assist our client to gain control over his meta robots tag on per product basis. In this article I’ll present …

301 redirects vs canonical links in Magento

27th APR 2013 | Posted by Ivan Galambos in Magento, Products, Programming, Tips

What can you do to prevent duplicated content of products from different stores? Recently we’ve received one inquiry to optimize an existing Magento website. Shortly, there are 2 stores with …

Product Stock Alerts (not) working

26th APR 2013 | Posted by Ivan Galambos in Debugging, E-Commerce, Email, Events & Observers, Magento, Products, Programming

Recently one of our clients had contacted us and said that ProductAlert functionality doesn’t work any more. After I investigated the situation I saw that last email regarding to Stock …

Magento Adminhtml Javascript Popup Dialog

14th MAR 2013 | Posted by Darko Goles in E-Commerce, Magento, Programming

Recently,I needed to add functionality to open javascript Popup dialog inside Magento Adminhtml area to perform some operations and then to handle onClose action to fill the form that called …

Magento (How to fix): One or more of the Cache Types are invalidated: Blocks HTML output.

27th FEB 2013 | Posted by Tomas Novoselic in Debugging, Programming

Some time has passed since I wrote original version of this article, Magento was at 1.5. these days… Now, almost 2 years later I have decided to revamp the article since …

Clear the APC cache from Magento admin panel

15th FEB 2013 | Posted by Zvonimir Buric in Magento, Programming

Since PHP code is interpreted, every time we run a script, PHP has to parse the script and compile it to opcode (operation code) which represents the function of the …

How to add Currency selector to Magento’s header

14th DEC 2012 | Posted by Zvonimir Buric in Configuration, Frontend, Magento, Programming

Since Magento has built in functionality for currencies, it shouldn’t be too hard to create custom currency selector and put it to the header. You might say this tutorial is …