Previously all premium FishPig extensions had to be installed by manually moving files from your local machine to your Magento site via FTP. Doing this each time an extension was upgraded was a major annoyance to a lot of you and for this we apologise. After a lot of research into this issue, we are [...]
Magento Developer Tutorials & News
Magento development tutorials, Magento news and other eCommerce discussion from the FishPig development team.
Install FishPig Premium Extensions Through Magento Connect
Posted on May 1, 2012 by BT
This post was posted in News
Why You Shouldn't Merge JavaScript in Magento
Posted on April 19, 2012 by BT
Most people - myself included - thought combining the Javascript in your site into one single file was a good thing. We explore the logic behind this and reveal and ugly truth.
This post was posted in Magento Tutorials
Secure HTTPS Magento Shopping Cart
Posted on April 19, 2012 by BT
Learn how to force the Magento shopping cart - or any Magento page - to use SSL. This can improve customer confidence and conversion rates and is so simple to achieve that you should be doing it!
This post was posted in Magento Tutorials
Integrating WordPress Multisite into a Magento Multi-Store
Posted on April 9, 2012 by BT
Our newest Magento extension allows you to integrate multiple WordPress blogs into your multi-store Magento website using WordPress Multisite (WordPress MU). You can create an integrated blog per Magento store and as many extra non-integrated blogs as you like.
Learn the best way to achieve WordPress Multisite integration into Magento and the reasons why our extension is the best and easiest way to achieve this.
This post was posted in Magento Store Owner Tips
Load A Category or Product by an Attribute
Posted on April 2, 2012 by BT
Everyone knows how to load a product by an ID, but this isn't always enough to access the product you're after. Fortunately, Magento provides several simple mechanisms to quickly retrieve product and category data based on attributes such as name, URL or any other attribute you're using. This article illustrates how to do this efficiently so you can get the data you want quickly and easily.
This post was posted in Magento Tutorials
Magento Exception Printing is Disabled by Default for Security Reasons
Posted on April 8, 2011 by BT
Every Magento developer has seen the 'Magento Exception Printing is Disabled by Default for Security Reasons' message and by now, most know how to configure Magento to show the error message. There are options available though that allow you to keep the security of the new system without having to discard all errors.
This post was posted in Magento Tutorials
Category Navigation Listings in Magento
Posted on October 15, 2010 by BT
There are many ways to display your category/subcategory navigation listings in Magento eCommerce, however some are better than others. This article details how to access your category and subcategory information without making all those expensive database category model load queries.
This post was posted in Magento Tutorials
Add Custom Tabs to the Magento Product Admin
Posted on August 30, 2010 by BT
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.
This post was posted in Magento Tutorials
Create a Drop-Down of Countries
Posted on July 5, 2010 by BT
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.This post was posted in Magento Tutorials
Direct SQL Queries In Magento
Posted on July 2, 2010 by BT
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! Magento provides several ways to access the database directly and it is important to understand each way and know which one to choose. In this article learn to how to correctly query the Magento database directly.
This post was posted in Magento Tutorials
