Add Popup to Magento Pages
If you want to make sure that visitors to your site are made aware of new products or announcements, a popup display on the homepage or other popular pages can be an effective tactic. This benefit must...
View ArticleChange Currency Symbols Magento 1.7
Sometimes the default currency symbols in Magento aren't ideal.With the release of Magento 1.7, changing currency symbols has become much easier. All currency symbols can be adjusted in the backend and...
View ArticleCustomize WordPress Search Box and Initial Text
Customizing the search box in WordPress is pretty straightforward once you understand what file to edit. The form for the search box is defined in searchform.php. Unless your theme has a searchform.php...
View ArticleInvalid Table Rates File Format — Magento Table Rates CSV
In Magento, table rates are excellent for specifying shipping rates to different destinations and are fairly easy to set up. The main issues that users encounter when they try to configure table rates...
View ArticleMagento Extensions Not Displaying on Frontend After Install
If you are using a custom Magento theme and are having problems getting extensions to display correctly on the frontend, there is a good chance that it is an issue of file location. Extensions usually...
View ArticleHow to Scale iFrame Content in IE, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari
Scaling (or zooming) the content of an iFrame can be useful when you are trying to display an object in an area that does not match its original size. The below code scales an iFrame that is 1000...
View ArticleAdd Text Before Price in Magento 1.8.1
Sometimes it is necessary to add descriptive text in front of the price display in Magento. For instance, you may be selling something priced per unit, such as flooring by the square foot or fabric by...
View ArticleAdd Custom Option Descriptions Magento
Magento’s custom options feature is very handy for creating products that can be customized by shoppers. Unfortunately, the display options are not comprehensive. While you can enter custom option...
View ArticleFix Broken Magento Catalog Search Function
We’ve encountered situations where the Magento catalog search function has stopping working for no apparent reason in versions from 1.4.x to 1.7.x. The below details a potential fix that we’ve had...
View ArticleAdd Colorbox to CMS Pages for Ultimo Theme for Magento
Ultimo is an excellent Magento theme that we’ve used for a number of builds. For one build, we wanted to add a gallery with lightbox functionality to a CMS page using Colorbox. The implementation is...
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