Category - magento

Monday
15 Jun


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Know More About Your Customers - Adding Custom Signup Attributes

Magento provides a simple user account signup page. However, some online stores might want to collect relevant customer information for more targeted and personal interactions with their customers. Some examples of details that could be collected include shoe size, clothing size or favourite colour.

Wednesday
10 Jun


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Fontis M2M Sync released

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Fontis M2M Sync for synchronising customers, products and orders between Magento and MYOB. Using our software will allow you to speed up your sales and accounting processes and eliminate the errors associated with manual transfer of the same information.

Friday
29 May


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Drop-down admin config arrays

I recently needed to create custom 'arrays' within Magento's admin panel to support drop-down lists rather than just text fields. This can be a much more convenient means of configuring more complicated backend settings.

Thursday
28 May


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Sort products by rating

If your Magento site supports reviews and ratings for products, as many do, then adding a way to sort by product rating is a feature that your customers may appreciate. The following is a quick way to add in "Rating" as a valid sort selection in category toolbars.

Monday
20 Apr


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reCAPTCHA Extension Released

We are pleased to announce the release of our latest Magento extension, Fontis reCAPTCHA, which adds in CAPTCHA elements to the "Send to a Friend", "Contact Us" and customer registration forms, increasing the difficulty for spammers to misuse your forms and send UCE.

Friday
6 Mar


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Automatically add sub-stores in Magento

We have a client who has created a number of sub-stores under their main Magento website, so that each of these stores has its own Magento skin, logo and so forth. However, they also have associated subdomains, which normally must be manually specified in the main index.php file so that Magento can be told to run the appropriate store in place of the default. This post details a way to automate the process and make it easier for the user to add additional sub-stores themselves.

Monday
2 Mar


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WYSIWYG 7th "Most Downloaded"

Our WYSIWYG Editor extension is now the 7th most downloaded extension on Magento Connect! With over 9000 downloads and counting, it's great to see how many members of the Magento community have found the extension useful.