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hosting · magento

From the default MAGENTO template, you always can see the call out images on the left/right side.

We can easily turn on Template Path hints in the admin section:
1.Admin > System > Configuration
2.Switch your “Current Configuration Scope” to your store
3.Click on the Developer Tab (bottom left) and find the Debug area
4.Template Path Hints: Yes
5.Then refresh your debugging page, you will see all the paths on the screen
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call outs · callouts · magento

Adding and removing javascript / css when and where you need it

Adding and removing Javascript and CSS is handled separately within Magento.

CSS is added in the usual like . But any included javascript (unless linked to “by hand” from a theme’s skin) is pulled via a php files which reads through the “js” folder in the root directory (root/js/index.php is responsible for this).

That is all well and good for Magento. The real question is how we, as developers, add these items when we need them.
In this post, we will show how to add and remove Javascript and CSS to a CMS page (and anywhere else) that you may need.
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CSS · design · JAVASCRIPT · magento

Here it goes.

1. Step One
/app/design/frontend/default/default/template/page/html

copy header.phtml to something like header2.html

2. Step Two
/app/design/frontend/default/default/layout
edit page.xml

you can just copy existing Block and change type and name only.

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<block type="page/html_header2" name="header2" as="header2">
<block type="page/template_links" name="top.links" as="topLinks"/>
<block type="page/switch" name="store_language" as="store_language" template="page/switch/languages.phtml"/>
<block type="core/text_list" name="top.menu" as="topMenu"/>
</block>

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Magento already had a built-in contact form that can be used for general contacts.

But we can not find this form on the ADMIN => CMS section. So if we want to edit text in that default contact form, we will need to edit back-end file.

If you are a developer, editing your contact form HTML is a piece cake, the path for the file is:
app/design/frontend/default/[yourtheme]/template/contacts/form.phtml

But, if there are cases when you would like to let your client/customer to edit some intro text, phone numbers, edit text behind the form.
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development · form · magento

This a very popular problem, after some people updated the MAGENTO to 1.3.2.2 or 1.3.2.3, there are one error shows on the back-end CMS section:

Fatal error: Call to a member function children() on a non-object in /home/xxxxx/public_html/store/app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Cms/Page/Grid.php on line 72

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bug · cms · development · problem

I knew this is a quite easily thing, and many people know how to do it.

But for some new guy’s reference, I still write it on here:

Copy code below and Paste into “Paste extension key to install: ”

in Magento Connect to upgrade Magento to the newest version:

magento-core/Mage_All_Latest

magento · upgrade

On the ADMIN page,

1. Download the desired translation thru Magento connect via admin.
2. Once installed Go to: System -> Manage Stores -> Create store view. Enter the data and save.
3. Now go to: Configuration -> Current Configuration Scope (Select your language from the dropdown) and on the right side under “Locale options” choose the desired language.

Note: Please clear the cache before trying to use the new language.

Now, on the frontpage, you’ll notice a dropdown menu allowing the language switching.

language · magento

If the magento, there are many built-in features are not useful to you or to your customers you can always disable them via the admin interface by disabling their respective modules.

Wishlist is not one of them.

To remove all of the traces of the wishlist functionality you need to do the following:

1. Go to the Admin interface (select the appropriate scope) and under System -> Configuration -> Customers -> Whishlist select “No” under the “Enabled” in the General options.

This will remove all of the whishlist links in the magento blocks as well as the whishlist itself.

2. (your template name)/template/catalog/product/view/addto.phtml and remove the “pipe” character from that file so that it doesn’t disturb the looks of your site

3. Go to: System -> Configuration ->Advanced->Advanced and set disable “Mage_Whishlist”

That’s it. All Done!

administration · magento · wishlist

Here is a solution for how to DELETE TEST ORDERS from MAGENTO.

We usually create some test orders when we design the MAGENTO website for our client. But after we finished the work, we need pass the whole website to our client, and then the site will go live.
Normally, they don’t want to see any TEST ORDER on the back end. But we only can cancel the TEST ORDER, and MAGENTO does not have the function to delete the TEST ORDER. We can see them on the DASHBOARD. Our customer also can see them on the DASHBOARD.
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