Category Archives: Magento

Amazon.co.uk Widgets Something I come across a lot on various Magento forums and guides is people modifying the htaccess file to enable GZIP compression, these posts typically consist of the following modified htaccess snippet:- —————————————————– <ifmodule mod_deflate.c> ############################################ ## enable … Read more →

Have you tried upgrading Magento via Magento Connect only to be confronted by the following error as soon as you re-visit your site, don’t worry theres an easy fix. Read more →

If your reading this there’ a good chance that you are running a Magento store with more than a couple of hundred products. You’ve probably already figured that you need to change a few settings in your php.ini file like the max_execution_time. Read more →

I was flicking around the admin of one of my Magento stores the other day and happened to click on ‘online customers.’ For those of you who haven’t discovered this, it can be found under the customers category and shows you information about the people who are currently browsing your store, including their IP address and session start times etc. I personally like this feature as it updates in real-time (there’s no delay like Google Analytics) so you can see what content your potential customers are viewing. Read more →

Theres a lot of anticipation surrounding Magento 1.4.

For me one of the most important problems I’d like to see addressed is the painfully slow layered navigation refresh times. It gets a bit silly when you have a few 1000 products and the refresh starts taking 1hr+. Read more →