This is a good article for store owners on the basics of creating a nested menu in the Shopify backend; https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/sell-online/online-store/menus-and-links/drop-down-menus WordPress site owners and developers will recognise this setup immediately. Draggable/droppable menus were introduced into WordPress as one of the flagship features of WordPress 3 in 2010. As always the Shopify documentation is good – …
One of the issues when working with an system is that visual redesigns tend to render ‘How To’ blog posts obsolete pretty quickly. Hopefully this on won’t stay obsolete too long. If you are trying to work out how to add a custom menu link to a Shopify menu and are getting frustrated, chances are …
This is a ‘Note to Self’ as much as anything else. It’s explains how we got the WordPress install to work on a Magento multistore using country stub directories. The SO question it relates to is here; http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32613815/htaccess-wordpress-under-magento-site-with-multi-language-sub-directories We have this in production, hopefully this answer might help someone at some point. The way we’ve …
I’m writing this blog post because I’ve had to add a WordPress site into a Magento site which uses Capistrano 3 as it’s deployment framework. I was trying to work out the best way to set it all up and Googling it resulted in a right load of shit. No disrespect to the authors (many …
The title says it all. Magento installation with failed transactions using Sagepay fail when the delivery address is Armed Forces Middle East, Armed Forces Africa or Armed Forces Canada. It’s for a good reason – Magento itself sets the region ID for these options as ‘AM’, ‘AF’ and ‘AC’ respectively; Which is dandy until you …
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Media Temple’s knowledgebase has a good article on how to enable SOAP on a DV Managed server; https://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/1947/Configure+PHP+with+SOAP#dv_managed However, when you get to the section that says NOTE: If you receive an error similar to the following, you will need to install libxml2: You might also encounter the following error (as I did); no acceptable …
OK, so why this post? Well there just wasn’t very much (or indeed anything at all) on this in Google when I looked. There is loads on how to use Magento’s built in url rewrite system from teh backend. And there’s loads on Stackoverflow and Alan Storm’s blog on how to create a custom controller …
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I am currently building a configurator in Magento – it’s a native configurator using Magento’s custom options on a simple product coupled with some javascript which I’ve coded up on separate custom product/view-custom.phtml and product/view/media-custom.phtml templates (applied to a specific product using this technique -> http://prattski.com/2010/11/04/magento-use-different-template-files-for-specific-products/). The concept is simple enough but I have had …
If you Google trying to fin out the best way to remove all the toplinks from the masthead of your Magento store you will be presented with a rash of different options on how and how not to do it. As always with Magento, there’s a number of ways to skin a cat – some …
For anybody using a Hetzner VPS running Plesk 11 who needs to install WordPress Multisite in wildcard subdomain mode – this post is for you 🙂 (and indeed me, when I come to do it again and can’t remember how I got it working in the first instance). There is quite a well written and …
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