I recently needed to allow for a custom note to be shown in Magento’s Grid and List views. My client asked that they be able to add to any product a customized note (text snippet) to announce such things as “Expected back in stock soon”, “20% Off Today”, “Color Red Coming this Week” and so […]

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I recently upgraded an installation of Magento from version 1.1.6 to 1.3.2.1 which lead to a couple issues with the payment system. The first issue was that I had to reset Base URL under Secure in the Configuration. The SSL settings seemed to have gotten lost during the upgrade.
This leads to the Payment transaction failed […]

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I needed to create a Magento Staging Area for both common development tasks and testing the latest upgrades.
In order to create the staging area for my Magento store I’m going to create a mirror of it at a subdomain. I host on my own Linux server and use Godaddy to manage my domains.
My main Web […]

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I recently had a problem with users of Explorer and login problems on the frontend of a Magento store. They were able to login using Firefox, but when using Explorer they couldn’t login as a customer. The backend was fine.
I found that I had some configuration issues, primary with server system time and cookies which […]

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Magento currently does not sort category products and any product listing for that matter by Newest (highest entity_id). Since my store works best when showing fresh products we felt it necessary to have our Magento installation sort by newest product first (descending) so that just by clicking through categories, users would be seeing the latest […]

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