Magento: Remove all toplinks via local.xml
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...
View ArticleEnabling and using ImageMagick in PHP on Plesk 11
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...
View ArticleMagento URL Rewrites – custom url redirect for CMS page
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....
View ArticleEnable SOAP on Media Temple DV Managed
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...
View ArticleIgniyte, Guide to Personal Online Reputation
This is a post penned by my good friend Simon Wadsworth at igniyte.com – he’s the man to talk to about any online reputation management issues you might be faced with either as an individual or a...
View ArticleThanks to Peter Walker
What a gentleman. First time anyone has ever bought me a beer (or anything for that matter!) for a blog post that I’ve written. So props to Peter Walker from Gogeye Design in Epping for buying me a...
View ArticleGetting back into shape
So after almost 3 years of parenthood and slowly getting more and more unfit and sluggish I decided last February to get myself back in the gym and get fit again. It was a pretty slow process, started...
View ArticleSagepay – Magento – Armed Forces – INVALID. 3139 : The DeliveryState format...
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...
View ArticleWordPress, Git and Capistrano v3
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...
View ArticleWordPress under Magento multistore
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;...
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