Tag Archives: cms
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Injecting Variables into a Magento CMS static block

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In this tutorial i’ll show you how to inject any custom variable you need into a cms static block in place of a {{var variable_name}} tag. You’ve seen this in the email templates if you were working on them (in the matter of fact the model (filter) we’re calling is extending the same filter the email templates are using for injecting the variables). Read more

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Magento CMS syntax – part2

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Every Magento user noticed that there is special {{magentocode}} syntax available in cms pages and static blocks. We traced a bit to find out which params are available and what exactly they do. Read more

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Symfony 2 Form

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NOTE: Tested on Symfony2 PR12. Might not work on later releases!

If you want to use forms in Symfony 2 project there is already prepared system for that.

First in ‘Yourname/SomethingBundle/Forms’ folder create class like this: Read more

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How to move existing WordPress site to another server

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Some experienced developers would say: “Piece of cake , I can do it for about 15 minutes!”
But, is it really so easy and trivial task?

It’s not so heavy, but you have to pay attention on some really important things and because of that, I would like to say that it is not heavy but more sensitive task to do.

So, let’s start with article.

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WordPress 3.1 new features rundown

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Writers, developers rejoice for some new features like Internal linkingFront-end Admin Bar and some pretty good advancements on taxonomy queries and post templates. Hit the button, read the rundown.
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Turning Magento into CMS only (ditching shop functionality)

Turning Magento into CMS only (ditching shop functionality)

For the last two days I had most interesting time with Magento. I was able to took some time and try out some things that I were planning to do ever since I started working with Mage. Everyone in Magento development know how flexible (extensible) Magento is. Personally, my favorite feature is the one related to layouts and blocks, how they are built with xml files and so on. Anyhow back to my idea: Strip Magento to the core by ditching entire shop functionality. Read more

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Magento CMS syntax – part1

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Every Magento user noticed that there is special {{magentocode}} syntax available in cms pages and blocks. We traced a bit to find out which params are available and what exactly they do.

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Magento FLIR

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Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. Let’s see how it behaves in Magento.

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Simple random banner rotator in Magento using static blocks

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This is my first post here and I’ll write about my first challenge regarding Magento since I came to work at Inchoo.

As title says I’ll show you how to implement simple random banner rotation functionality in Magento using static blocks. Read more

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Custom Magento CMS page layout

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Last week I had a request to add new custom layout for few cms pages in one Magento shop. It’s really useful for different static pages of your shop. Read more

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