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What’s Your Story, Day 2?

alyssagothelf — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:29:00 +0000

If Day 1’s excitement level was at a 10, Day 2 was off the charts. There was a noticeable feeling of exhilaration in the air as the crowd entered the Pavillion this morning. With a DJ filled atmosphere, eye tantalizing graphics and thoughtful merch...

Magento Enterprise 1.12 and Community 1.7 Now Available!

Magento Marketing — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:32:00 +0000

We’re pleased to announce the latest Magento releases: Magento Enterprise 1.12 and Community 1.7. The recent enhancements to our powerful eCommerce offerings help merchants provide a more personalized shopping experience for their customers. Benef...

Ajouter le bouton j’aime de facebook sur la fiche produit de magento

Magento : Tutoriels admin, design, programmation, installation et vidéos magento — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:45:45 +0000

Suite à ce précédent article sur l’ajout de bouton réseaux sociaux sur la fiche produit,bouton google plus. On m’a demandé (Cécile) comment ajouter le bouton j’aime de facebook sur la fiche produit de magento. Nous allons voir c...

A Magical Transformation for Dan and Dave

Magento Marketing — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:19:00 +0000

Dan and Dave have a built a business and a community around magic. Their online store serves as an interactive lifestyle hub for magicians worldwide, not only offering instructional media and accessories, but a place where magic enthusiasts can share...

Simple Magento Sort Optimization Patch

Alex — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:07:32 +0000

While doing some profiling and benchmarking of Magento to test PHP-FPM I found that Magento was spending roughly a quarter of the run time for some page loads on comparing attributes. This struck me as odd, and so I looked … Continue reading &#85...

Understanding the Grid Serializer Block

Paryank Kansara — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:00:56 +0000

In this new series of Magento tutorials, I will explain the function and use of the Adminhtml Grid Serializer object. We will see how it functions as well as how we can create our own custom serializers to handle our data.

Developers Create 6 Magento Extensions in Two-Day Hackathon

Mosses_Akizian — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:29:00 +0000

30 Developers, 6 Extensions, 2 Days, 1 eCommerce Platform Last week 30 Magento employees, developers and partners gathered for a two-day hackathon in Munich, Germany. Like many of our community members, these attendees were eager further their Magento...

Variables et conditions utiles de Magento (cheat sheet)

Magentix — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 18:34:50 +0000

Aide mémoire très utile rédigé par Frédéric Martinez, auteur du blog et fondateur de l'. Ce cheat sheet Magento permet un gain de temps non négligeable lors de nos développements.

Magento Customer Passwords

MXWest — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:36:15 +0000

Recently I had occasion to export some customer data and use it in another system. This way I don’t need 2 different sign-ons for an external CMS. Magento stores the hashed password with its salt. You can use this code … Continue reading &#...

Integrating WordPress Multisite into a Magento Multi-Store

Magento Tutorials — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:00:27 +0000

There are many ways to integrate WordPress into Magento, but it starts to get more confusing when you want to integrate a WordPress Multisite. Before we get into the best - and easiest - way to integrate WordPress Multisite (WordPress MU) into a multis...

Bargento 2012 : Demandez le programme !

SeL — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:44:00 +0000

Le programme du Bargento 2012 est annoncé ! Placé sous le signe des retours d’expérience, le Bargento 2012 sera l’occasion de découvrir les plus grands projets Magento qui ont façonné l’E-commerce ces dernières années. En...

New Magento Site Gives Cookie Company Lots of Reasons to Smile

Magento Marketing — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:09:00 +0000

It’s often been said that the secret of success is knowing when to run with a good idea. The Eat’n Park Hospitality Group certainly feels this way. When the organization noticed how many of its restaurant customers were raving about the “smiley...

Le programme est annoncé !

Matthieu Jung — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:18:08 +0000

Découvrez le programme du Bargento 2012, l'événement E-commerce & Magento incontournable !

New York Jeans Chain Gets a Leg Up With Magento

Magento Marketing — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:02:00 +0000

OMG, The Jeans Store was founded to spread the cool simplicity of New York street style through jeans and apparel. After establishing 10 brick-and-mortar locations in the Big Apple, OMG decided to enter the online space to bring their one-of-a-kind a...

Thank You, Yoav

RoyRubin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:45:00 +0000

I’d like to take this opportunity to express my sincere, deepest gratitude and appreciation to my good friend and business partner, Yoav Kutner, who is leaving Magento. Yoav co-founded Magento, led the development of our platform, and served as our C...

Load A Category or Product by an Attribute

Magento Tutorials — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:49:55 +0000

New developers often ask me how to load a product by a particular attribute. This is quite easy to accomplish in Magento and can be done using Magento collections. Load a Product by SKU Unlike most product attributes, SKU is a static attribute. This me...

PCI, Magento, and Storing Credit Card Information

Brad — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:51:46 +0000

The question of whether you can store credit card information within Magento comes up a lot here at Nexcess. The answer to this question is unfortunately not very clear when looking for an answer elsewhere including on the Magento website. … Cont...

Problème de compatibilité Prototype & IE9 sous Magento

jonathan — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:18:32 +0000

Un problème de compatibilité de la librairie Prototype avec IE9 arrive souvent sur Magento, par exemple avec les onglets de la page produit qui ne fonctionne plus.

Pour résoudre ce problème, il faut rajouter dans app/design/chemin_de_votre_theme/template/page/html/head.phtml cette balise META :

<meta

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Top SEO Myths Debunked

Adam Morris — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:54:16 +0000

You’d be surprised how many conversations I have with top executives and e-commerce managers who have major misconceptions ...

Shoffee Gets a Jolt from New Magento Website

Magento Marketing — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:52:00 +0000

Unless you’re one of those superhumans that starts the day with a tall glass of water, there’s a good bet you are aware of the single-serve coffee maker craze. The popularity of these one-cup-per-brew machines has exploded, and New Jersey-based r...