Magento Tutorials & Development

Fishpig’s free Magento WordPress integration extension can now be downloaded for Magento 1.3.2.4

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To develop a truly custom Magento eCommerce website, you will more than likely have to customise the Magento Administration section. Using the Magento event system, we will develop a custom Magento module that injects custom tabs into the product edit page. We will also learn how to save any data that is set there. Although this tutorial is written for the Magento Product page, the same techniques apply to the whole of the backend and therefore can be expanded on to add tabs to the Magento order page or the Magento customer page.

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A new version of our Magento WordPress integration extension has been released and has tons of more features!

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Recently I was asked how to view the contents of the Magento Registry without crashing your browser. In this article I will show you a neat way to accomplish this.

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I have released a new Magento extension that integrates Magento and WordPress in a way that no other Magento extension has yet managed! The extension doesn’t require you to edit any core files and you can install WordPress and separate or the same databases; it’s up to you!

For more information and to download this extension, please see: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/fishpig/extension/3958/fishpig_wordpress_integration

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There are many ways to access country information in Magento. Unfortunately, most developers use a long drawn out way when they can accomplish it in 1 line of code!

In this article you will learn how to easily access an array containing country names and country codes. Using this array I will show you how to create a drop down (select box) quickly and easily in the both the Magento front end and the Magento Admin area.

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Accessing the current category in Magento is fairly straight forward. Sometimes though, that category may actually be a subcategory. For example, if you’re several categories deep, accessing the current category will give you the subcategory. This is fine and is the way things should work, however sometimes you might want to find the top category of that subcategory. This article will demonstrate how to access the most parent category of any category in Magento.

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Magento’s use of data models provide a great way to access and modify data but sometimes, you can’t beat a direct SQL query! In this article learn to how to correctly query the Magento database directly!

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Creating custom themes in Magento 1.4 is a massive part of Magento development and a necessary skill for any one serious about developing Magento based websites. In this article, I will aim to explain the new structural changes to custom themes, how to structure your theme folders as well as showing you how to create your own custom Magento theme for Magento 1.4.

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Whether it’s caused by a broken link or a customer mistyping, 404 errors are ugly, annoying and most probably decrease sales. In this article I will show you how to quickly record your 404 errors in Magento so that you can fix them before they start affecting your sales.

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