Recently we decided to add a list of Facebook events from our Facebook page to our WordPress driven website. The requirement was to add the full list to separate page and predefined number of upcoming events to the home page. To my surprise there was no existing WordPress plugin which will do this. So I […]
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Last weekend I had the chance to participate in the 4th Magento Hackathon which was held in Munich, just as the one before. If you are not familiar with the idea, a hackathon is an event where developers lock themselves up into a space where they will not be disturbed by customers, girlfriends, colleagues or dogs
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For some reasons Magento doesn’t have generic functionality to list best selling products, all products with discounted prices (specials), all products in the inventory in general or products with specific attributes (like all products of a specific manufacturer). All those listings share almost the same functionality so I decided to combine them into one Magento
Magento has a nice feature to allow checkout for visitors only from a pre-defined list of countries. But what if one wants to allow access to entire Magento or just some Magento parts to those countries? Magento is determining visitors country by looking into customers address. But visitor can be also not logged in so
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Magento administrator interface has a nice notification system placed right under the main navigation. By default it is used by Magento core modules but it is quite easy to broadcast your own messages there.
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You may say «Nah, I’m not that stupid. I disabled all extensions before I messed up with this bloody thing called Magento upgrade. I’m not even that stupid to disable them in Admin –> System –> Configuration –> Advanced –> Advanced. I disabled them deadly by turning the `active` XML node of their bootstrap files
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WordPress grew into a great CMS system. However some end-users who’d like to use both WYSIWYG and HTML editors can be quite a surprised with the way they HTML code gets treated.
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The 3rd Magento Hackathon was held last weekend in Munich. If the word «hackathon» is new for you as it was for me before this event, Hackathon means fun. First of all I would like to thank the organizers of the hackathon, Damian Luszczymak, Jens Wulfken, Lars Christiansen and Jarlsen in general for the fantastic effort they
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By default you can see «Orders» and «Amounts» tabs at the top-right of Magento administrator’s dashboard. It turned out it is not quite easy to add another one. All tabs in Magento admin (tabs at the product management, order management and apparently dashboard tabs) are widget blocks controlled by Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Widget_Tabs class. This class contains various
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