Adding SSL-support to Magento

May 18th, 2012 Posted by  ravi

I have got many requests about how to add SSL (https)in Magento. Here is instructions on how to add SSL-support to a Magento-installation. Who needs SSL? SSL is important for stores who want their customers to be sure everything they enter in the Account-areaand Checkout-area is encrypted along the way from their browser to your server. Stores with [...]

Cannot able to Login to Frontend with Explorer on Magento Store

May 18th, 2012 Posted by  ravi

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 [...]

PrettyPhoto shows “undefined”

April 12th, 2012 Posted by  ravi

option 1. (recommened) I have fixed the issue – the links that have rel=prettyphoto also need to be given a title=”” attribute or else the description will show undefined option2. I figured out (while playing with the api) that the parsing for “Description” just watches out to hide empty descriptions. If you initialize your prettyPhoto [...]

How to Setup a new Payment Method in Virtuemart

April 4th, 2012 Posted by  ravi

Login to  your site’s backend e.g. www.yoursite.com.au/administrator Click Components > Virtuemart Select ‘Extended Layout’ if not already selected Select ‘Store (Left Menu) > ‘List Payment Methods’ Click ‘New’ Enter a Payment Method Name, e.g. ‘Direct Deposit’ Enter a Unqiue Payment Code, e.g. ‘DD’ Payment Class Name, Default = ‘ps_payment’ Enter the Payment Method Type Shopper [...]

HOW TO ENABLE TEMPLATE HINT PATHS IN MAGENTO?

March 20th, 2012 Posted by  ravi

While customizing the theme in Magento you can understand which block of content comes from which file.? There is a neat simple option that can considerably save your time. All you need to do is enable the Template Hint Paths via the Magento Admin Module. They way to do that is as follows: Login to Magento Admin [...]

Template path hints in Magento without changing in admin

February 5th, 2012 Posted by  ravi

Find  /template/page/html/head.phtml, and add this code if(Mage::app()->getRequest()->getParam(‘th’, false)) self::$_showTemplateHints = true;

Redirect Magento to open through www

February 5th, 2012 Posted by  ravi

For SEO and usability purposes you may want to redirect your visitors to open your site only through www (http://www.mydomain.com). Step-1 In Magento, you need to open the .htaccess file in the folder where your Magento is installed. In it locate the RewriteEngine on line and right after it add the following lines: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [...]

How to Enable Multisite in WordPress

February 4th, 2012 Posted by  ravi

Update the wp-config.php file You will need to add this line of code to your wp-config.php to make the multisite function accessible: define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true); Links WordPress codex documentation for using multisite: http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network How to map top level domains in multisite: http://verysimple.com/2010/07/09/install-wordpress-3-with-multiple-tlds/ http://ottopress.com/2010/wordpress-3-0-multisite-domain-mapping-tutorial/

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January 28th, 2012 Posted by  ravi

Did you change the prefix of your table names in WordPress after the migration?   In my old database, I used ‘wp_’ as my prefix of wp db. As I migrated, I changed it to ‘wordpress_’ instead of ‘wp_’. The meta_key values are tied down to: wp_user_level wp_capabilities wp_autosave_draft_ids These need to update it to [...]