February 2010

One of Magento's strengths is that it caters for the creation of an unlimited number of custom attributes that can be added to products to store structured product data, and these attributes can be further grouped into attribute sets. While the Magento backend provides a user friendly interface to managing attributes, this article shows how to make the most of the additional information provided by custom product attributes on the frontend.

In this post I would like to discuss two common "gotchas" which often arise when implementing a new theme in Magento that might save others some time. The first outlines a situation where page titles will stop working, and the second issue can cause the checkout progress to stop updating. Here's how to avoid these pitfalls.