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Currys’ Price Match Promise – An Inventive UX Feature
Let's say you are looking at a product on the Currys website. You wish to read reviews about this product or want to compare prices and availability from other retailers around the web. What would you do? Copy the product's name and paste it into a Google search tab?...
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Magento – Show Address Fields in Customer Registration Form
Open up your local.xml or any xml file that you are using with your theme. Add the following bit: You will notice a code in the register.phtml file found here: /app/design/frontend/base/default/template/customer/form/register.phtml ...
read moreWordPress Fix – the_date() Function Returning Blank Value
Are you are using the_date() function in WordPress templates and getting a blank or empty value? When more than one post is published on the same day, the_date() function displays only the date for the first post in the loop. The right way to handle this is by using...
read moreVagrant – Removing VM from Global Status after Deleting Folder and Files
You might have deleted the folders and files for a Vagrant virtual machine. However, you will see the machine appear under the 'vagrant global-status' command. If you issue the command 'vagrant destroy [virtualmachineid]', you will get the following message "The...
read moreMagento – Get Current Package Name and Theme Name
// To get the current package name of the Magento store / site Mage::getSingleton('core/design_package')->getPackageName(); // To get the current theme of the Magento store / site Mage::getSingleton('core/design_package')->getTheme('frontend'); // You can pass...
read moreMagento – Disable Toolbar Sort / Order By Memory Cookie
WordPress – Changing The Site URL Using WP-CLI Command Line Tool
The WP-CLI command line tool is a handy application to run various WordPress tasks. Download the WP-CLI command line tool into the WordPress root folder using CURL or WGET. curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar...
read moreGoogle AdWords Campaign / Spelling Fail – Millets Outdoor Store
I Googled "North Face Shoes". Millets Outdoor Store flashed an advertisement, offering an additional 15% off by using a coupon code! I clicked (costing Millet a click) the link and visited their North Face landing page. I added a North Face shoe to the basket and...
read moreMagento – Adding a Custom Category Attribute (EAV)
$setup = new Mage_Eav_Model_Entity_Setup('core_setup'); $setup->startSetup(); $setup->addAttribute(Mage_Catalog_Model_Category::ENTITY, 'show_sale_icon', array( 'backend' => '', 'default' => 0, 'global' => Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Eav_Attribute::SCOPE_STORE,...
read moreMagento Fix – Email Validation for New gTLDs
Have you come across the following errors in Magento? Invalid email address "[email protected]" "[email protected]" is not a valid hostname. 'domain.events' appears to be a DNS hostname but cannot match TLD against known list 'domain.events' appears to be a local...
read moreYoast Google Analytics Reassign ‘__gaTracker’ Tracker to ‘ga’ Variable
Google Analytics by Yoast is a must have plugin for all WordPress installs. It makes adding GA trackers a breeze and it can also ping certain events to Google Analytics. The only unexplained bit of code is the issue. At some point, the 'ga' variable changed to...
read moreMagento – Reset File and Folder Permissions
You might have come across the following error while in Magento Connect Manager - Warning: Your Magento folder does not have sufficient write permissions. Magento needs certain file and folder permissions to be able to automatically performs upgrades and module...
read moreMagento – Get CMS Static Block Model Data (Title, Status, Content)
You can store template and HTML data in Magento's static blocks. If you want to pull it into your PHTML templates, just call load up the model and use the data fields. ...
read moreMagento – Check if CMS Static Block is Enabled / Active
Static blocks in Magento are really useful. They offer an easy way to insert content into various parts of the template. You are only limited by your imagination. You can check if the static blocks are enabled, before printing them to screen. ...
read moreMagento – Get Logged In Customer’s Group ID
You can also write static blocks or custom variables to contain group specific information. You can name the static block identifier based on the $customerGroupId and retrieve it on the front...
read moreHow to Clone a Git Repository into the Current Directory
Somehow, most examples of Git's clone command show a subfolder for the repository to be cloned into. I, for example, prefer navigating to the desired directory and like to clone into the current directory. The Git command has to be changed to appear as follows: ...
read moreMagento Fix – Blank Index Management Page (caused by GeoIP)
Do you get a blank page when navigating to your Index Management section of Magento admin? It could be that you have Openstream's GeoIP module and that module is conflicting with Magento's core. Navigate to app/code/community/Openstream/GeoIP/etc/config.xml (line 47)...
read moreWordPress Contact Form 7 – Tracking Form Submissions in Universal Analytics
Are your Contact Form 7 submissions not working fine? Is the 'Thank You' success message flashing for a second and disappearing? The problem might be in the on_sent_ok hook. The standard recommendation on the Contact Form 7 website is to use the following code. ...
read moreMagento – Export All Customers to CSV with Billing and Shipping Address
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