Extensions

Magento Dealer (Dealer Locator) Extension

By: Branko Ajzele, Sep 12, 2013

Few months ago I wrote an article How to: Dealer Locator extension for Magento, which was kind of an abstract overview of how to write the Dealers extension for Magento. After the article I got several feedback’s from people requesting the actual extension. Since I was very limited with time back then I kind of just ignored these requests. Lately however, I was able to spare some time to re-engage with articles on Inchoo.net. Since most of my articles are full blown extension, why make this one an exception 🙂

Magento extension – URL Rewrite Importer

By: Branko Ajzele, Sep 10, 2013

If you have done your share of Magento migrations, migrating existing client site to Magento, then surely you had a challenge with URL rewrites.

Custom Product Option and its use-case in Magento

By: Ivan Galambos, Aug 30, 2013

This post is actually short tutorial on how to create custom option for product and how to extend Magento Sale Order grid to show custom option as “Delivery Date”. This is beginner guide tutorial so if you’re new to Magento you’ll find it useful. At the end it will be fully functional Magento Module.

Social Connect Magento extension

By: Marko Martinovic, Jul 04, 2013

In my last article I’ve presented Google Connect Magento extension and your feedback has been nothing but positive. Discussion that followed spawned some new ideas like creating Magento extension that would connect your Magento installation with multiple authentication providers at the same time. Inspired by this idea I wrote another Magento extension named Inchoo Social Connect allowing your customers to login or create an account at your store using their Google, Facebook or Twitter account.

Google Connect Magento extension

By: Marko Martinovic, Jun 24, 2013

Since pretty much everyone now days has Google account, wouldn’t it be nice if customers could register or create an account at your store using their Google account credentials? I think it would, that’s why I’ve created Google Connect extension for Magento. In this article I’ll present simple instructions on how to install this free extension, and configure it for usage by creating Google API Client ID.

How to add custom product relations in Magento

By: Marko Martinovic, Jun 10, 2013

Currently there are three types of product relations in Magento: Up-sells, Related Products, and Cross-sell Products. Recently while discussing client’s requirements, we’ve come to conclusion it would serve our purpose best to link products in the same way Magento does, and then use our own relations independently of Magento’s built in product relations. In this article I’ll show you how to add custom product relations as addition to existing Magento product relations.

Remind customers to place their first order in Magento

By: Marko Martinovic, May 31, 2013

Sometimes customers need a little encouragement to place their first order after creating an account. There are many reasons this is the case, for example customers may forget to bookmark your site, thus they might have difficulties finding your store second time around. In this article I’ll present one way of keeping an eye on your customers orders count and sending first order reminder emails, trough free Magento extension named Inchoo_OrderReminder.

Enable Gift Wrapping module for certain countries – EE

By: Ivan Galambos, May 22, 2013

I promised in one of my previous posts that I’ll share with you this nice feature about how to enable Gift Wrapping module in Magento Enterprise Edition, but for certain countries. So let’s extend it so merchants can easily enable this enhancement as they wish.

(Free) Gift Wrapping Service – Magento EE

By: Ivan Galambos, May 21, 2013

Maybe you’ve wondered how not to charge for the Gift Wrapping Services for customers that have more items in their cart. We’ve gotten a request where client wanted to provide free Gift Wrapping Services (Gift Card, Gift Wrap, Gift Message) for their customers with total basket value above a certain limit. If you are wondering how we did it, keep reading.

Object-specific Layout Update Handles

By: Zvonimir Buric, May 21, 2013

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, you would see many of them. These handles are calculated differently, based on different variables.

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

By: Marko Martinovic, May 20, 2013

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 any email subscription related services, you might need to automatically subscribe customers when they register or place an order. In this article I’ll present code and simple Magento extension to make it easier for you to accomplish this task.

Automatic Cross Related Products – CSV Import

By: Ivan Galambos, May 16, 2013

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 avoid that (in most cases) boring task, I created this module so you don’t need to lose lots of your precious time.

Per product meta robots tag control in Magento

By: Marko Martinovic, May 08, 2013

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 simple Magento extension designed to do just that. I’ll also show you how to create custom product attribute programmatically trough setup resource installer script and how to retrieve this attribute later on.

Extension that allows you to disable specific region/state for US

By: Tomas Novoselic, Feb 27, 2013

Here is little extension called Inchoo_USDisableRegions.
If you have any reason to disable some specific regions from US country, but you don’t want to delete them, this extension will allow you to chose which ones are possible to use for your customer’s addresses.

Featured products 2.0 – revamped!

By: Darko Goles, Nov 30, 2012

One of the most requested feature in Magento is the ability to show featured products on the frontend. The idea is to choose the products that should be featured and display them on the home page or in a separate interface. Previous version had a huge demand. It was downloaded over 28,000 times. We are now presenting an update: Featured Products 2.0.

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