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Magento 1.9 branch has been around for a while and a lot of websites are still using it although Magento 2 branch has been announced a while ago. Magento 1.9 doesn’t have the open graph installed by default and if you do (of course you do) want to get the benefits of using OG tags […]
Recently I updated a client site to the latest 1.9.3.9 version from 1.9.2.4 to include all latest security and improvement patches. The site was using a customized RWD theme. After the update everything worked pretty well, but in the admin there was a big message at the top that said for better security formkey validation […]
If you are optimizing your Magento 1.9 store for search engines you may want to generate additional sitemaps lets say to every store you have, especially if you have the stores in different languages. What is funny is that you need to create these sitemaps yourself but when creating them via Catalog -> Google Sitemap […]
A customer called me today with an interesting issue. Their Magento store was normally having buttons to upload images to their page, but today these image upload buttons were missing. There was only the blue line where the images were supposed to be, but no buttons. When right clicking the area where the buttons should […]
When you need to to pack and download your whole Magento installation and there are no good tools for this available in your webhost’s admin panel, maybe you can use SSH to backup your Magento installation. 1. Create a SSH connection In order to create a SSH connection – you need a SSH client, […]
There are many ways to redirect a non-www Magento to www. You may want to do this for SEO purposes. I have tried many ways to redirect Magento to www and several of them broke some of my sites functionality (ie payment returns). Here is the best code to add to the top of your […]
Tried to use inline translation for frontend in Magento. Didn’t work. The icons appeared, but clicking them didn’t have any effect. How to make inline translation to work in Google Chrome browser? 1. Navigate to \app\code\core\Mage\Core\Model\Translate\Inline.php 2. Row 272, find this code: <script type=”text/javascript”> new TranslateInline(‘translate-inline-trig’, ‘<?php echo $ajaxUrl ?>’, ‘<?php […]
Magento one page checkout has also inbuilt functionality to make users agree to terms and conditions prior to payment. This generated a lot of errors for customers because not all of them are intelligent enough to know that this checkbox needs to be checked in order to proceed with payment. We got a load of […]
When accessing Magento backend via yoursite.com/admin, one might accidentally not be able to log in using Chrome browser. I had this issue occur many times and finally I got tired switching to Firefox for logins and investigated. Seems that the problem comes from cookies – Magento has more than one cookie and doesn’t know which […]
Oh Magento, Magento, Magento! When doing the most common task ever, installing Magento to a local development machine, I get the following error when using “localhost” as the address root Please enter a valid URL. Protocol is required (http://, https:// or ftp://) Although the protocol is nicely there submitted by not ME but by Magento’s […]