Wordpress: Manually Order Categories

Wordpress: Manually Order Categories

I was trying to find a Wordpress plugin that allows you to manually reorder the Category List.

The module here seems to allow you do this quite easily. I haven't fully tested it myself, but the developer has kept it up to date. The module is called My Category Order.

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Magento: Sort Categories / Menu

Magento: Sort Categories / Menu

In order to sort category items in the main menu, you just need to drag them in the admin panel of Magento.

If this doesn't work, you can manually up date the sort values in the database.

Magento: Slow Product Import

Magento: Slow Product Import

If you are trying to import products into your Magento shop and it's taking a long time. Check the following things:

• If you have a lot of products, then that's the reason,
• But if you only have a couple of hundred products, and it says you are importing more, then you need to clear your logs. The link below will show you how.

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Wordpress: plugin error 'unexpected output'

Wordpress: plugin error 'unexpected output'

I had the below error when I installed a Wordpress Plugin for a site I am working on.

The plugin generated 228 characters of unexpected output during activation. If you notice “headers already sent” messages, problems with syndication feeds or other issues, try deactivating or removing this plugin.

After having done quite a bit of work on the site already, I decided to see what the problem could be.

If you read the link below it'll give you a comprehensive answer, but my short and sweet version is:

The <?php ?> open or closed tags are missing in the main php file for the plugin.

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Wordpress: qTranslate Dates/Times Wrong

Wordpress: qTranslate Dates/Times Wrong

To sort out this problem go to 'Settings/Language/Advance Settings/' and select 'Use strftime instead of date.'

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Magento: Special Prices and Promo Codes

Magento: Special Prices and Promo Codes

Ever had the problem where special prices are appearing on products, but you haven't set one up.

This problem is usually because you've setup a promotional code and either set it as inactive, active, or even deleted it, but then missed the step of APPLY CODES, this then applies all the new codes and removes the old ones.

To setup promotional codes, have a look at the link below, but the keypoints are:

• Conditions set the products that the eligible for the promo
• Actions are what are applied
• I usually duplicate the conditions in the actions settings as well.

In order to apply promo codes to specific products you need to change the setting to allowed for the 'use in promo codes' in the attribute settings.

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Magento: Change Address Layout

Magento: Change Address Layout

In order to change the address layout you need to go to System/Configuration/Customer Config

You should be able to find it and adjust the layout here.

The xml file to edit "app\code\local\Mage\Customer\etc\config.xml" seems to be out dated as I tried making adjustments here, but it didn't seem to work. I have only noted this as reference.

Magento: Recently Viewed Products

Magento: Recently Viewed Products

The recently viewed products that you had working previously have all of a sudden stopped appearing. This problem has hit me several times over the last year and each time I have had to rediscovered the solution. So this time I have decided to blog it so I don't forget.

Problem:

The recently viewed products have disappeared, or they have stopped appearing.

Solution:

This usually happens when you have either added, removed or sometimes even modified a product. The SOLUTION is to re-index all of the indexes. If that doesn't work, then flush all the caches. After that if it still doesn't work, use everyone's good friend Google (there are other search engines available also).

Magento: Create Category List with Images

Magento: Create Category List with Images

The code to create a list of top-level categories along with their images:
<?php $_categories = $this->getStoreCategories() ?>
<?php $count = 0 ?>
<ul id="square-category">
<?php foreach ($_categories as $_category): ?>

<?php $open = $this->isCategoryActive($_category); ?>
<?php
$cur_category=Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($_category->getId());
$layer = Mage::getSingleton('catalog/layer');
$layer->setCurrentCategory($cur_category);
$immagine = $this->getCurrentCategory()->getThumbnail()
?>

<?php $count = $count+1 ?>
    <li class="Pos<?php echo $count ?>">
        <a href="<?php echo $this->getCategoryUrl($_category) ?>" title="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_category->getName()) ?>">
            <img src="/media/catalog/category/<?php echo "$immagine" ?>" alt="<?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_category->getName()) ?>" class="category-img" />
            <span><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($_category->getName()) ?></span>
        </a>
    </li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

Magento: Customise the contact form

Magento: Customise the contact form

This is very useful information if you want to modify the magento contact form.

There are several aspects that need to be modified, these include:

• the .phtml file.
• the .xml if you want to add extra textual content to the contact page.
• the email template using the transactional emails in the CMS.
• adjust the contact form settings in the CMS to use your new template.

Click the link below if you want a more detailed article.

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