Blog articles tagged with e-commerce
Magento - Six Months In
08.12.2009 11:48PM by Evan Johnson
e-Commerce, Web Development
Yes, this basically amounts to a good old fashioned rant post. But there is a purpose behind it: to educate those thinking of using Magento to power their ecommerce store about potential concerns and pitfalls. Read on, and enjoy.
Magento is an ambitious, promising ecommerce platform.
Magento really is a neat piece of software. Varien has really outdone itself. It is one of the most feature rich ecommerce platforms out...
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How to Integrate (Import) WordPress Content into Magento Blocks
04.26.2009 09:10PM by Evan Johnson
e-Commerce, CMS
This is the technique I use to integrate WordPress content into Magento. This can be useful for bringing in posts related to a product, or having recent blog posts on the Magento home page… whatever you can dream up. No modules, plugins or extensions are needed for this technique – just a good grasp of PHP and the Magento and WordPress theming/templating systems. There are probably many...
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Magento: How to list all the products in a single category in a sidebar block
03.23.2009 05:57PM by Evan Johnson
e-Commerce, Web Development
The website I’m currently developing wants to have all of the products in “CategoryX” displaying in the left sidebar on all pages. It’s a small category with their 5 core products, and they want to make sure no matter where the visitor is on the site, they are just a click away from viewing these products. The sidebar block only consists of a header with the Category name, and a...
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How to Add Dynamic Content to Magento Static Blocks and Pages
03.03.2009 09:06PM by Evan Johnson
e-Commerce, Web Development
Magento provides an easy way to create blocks of static content which, with a little Layout-XML-Fu, can be added to any page in Magento. Even better, these blocks can be added to any category page with no programming at all. This is great if you want to have a banner image with monthly specials and deals, or if you want to add a header image or descriptive text to...
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