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Magento – Hide content based on IP address

This post will be useful to anybody who has been asked to hide or display Magento content (specifically prices and add to cart stuff) based on visitor IP. As a kickoff you can read my initial Stackoverflow question

Magento on PHP upgrade from 5.2.11 to 5.2.17

I’ve got a VPS which was running PHP 5.2.11 and I decided to upgrade it as; A: There wasn’t any massive changes between those versions and B: The Magento minimum system requirements as of right now are

Magento – Deleted Shop view causes Category 404

Right, that is the best title I can come up with so that any poor soul who was struggling with what I’ve just been struggling with can hopefully find this and get some answers. There wasn’t much else out ...

CSS Transitions on BBC Style Scroller

Seems like ages since I did a blog post so I’m going to ease myself into it gently with a quick one about CSS and a slider. So I am building a custom WordPress site at the moment on behalf of The Loft up in

Magento – displaying a custom attribute in a static block

Here’s the scenario: I have used Template Master Easy Tabs in my Magento installation, it’s working fine. I’m also using the Red Stage ‘Shipping Price Per Product’ extension so that the ...

Magneto Fishpig – Adding Blog Categories to top level nav

The Magento Fishpig extension is great, but in fully integrated mode it’s not that easy to use – put it this way, you have to be a lot better at Magento than at WordPress to get it all working.