Magento is a well architectured, open-source e-commerce platform that are widely used these days. It has many professional and flexible functionalities, but one of the lacking features is a blogging tool. Its CMS is suitable to write static pages for websites, not for blogging. But there is another great open-source blogging software that is loved by numerous bloggers, WordPress. Integrating these two tools is not generally a big issue. There are a couple of ways to integrate Magento e-commerce store with WordPress blog. - You can install Magento plug-in to integrate WordPress. This extension allows you to manage ...

Do you see the two column layout being used for your homepage even when the three column layout is defined as the default layout in *page.xml? It's probably because the homepage is set to use the two column layout in CMS. Go to CMS -> Manage Pages. Find a page whose identifier is 'home' and click on it. Make sure the homepage that you enable uses 3 columns. You can update this by clicking Custom Design from the left menu. It's a nice feature that you can easily edit the homepage through CMS and you can assign a particular layout ...

Many Magento users find it very disappointing not to be able to delete test orders or at least to make them removed from the Admin Sales page. It's a required step that merchants or developers place several test orders before they officially launch the site. Obviously, they don't want their test sales mixed in the regular sales reports. It's hard to believe, but there is no easy solution for this in Magento Admin panel. These MySql queries can be handy when you want a fresh start with your Magento store. This is not a definite solution because you ...

Magento saves visitor and URL access information in its log tables (log_url, log_url_info, log_visitor and log_visitor_info). These tables can be quite large and affect site performance if they are not maintained. Majority of people already have some kind of traffic analysis tool - one of the most popular tools is free Google Analytics - and they don't necessarily find Magento log tables very efficient. You can set up a log cleaning cron job through Magento Admin panel. Go to System -> Configuration. Click on System from the left menu (almost at the bottom). Open Log Cleaning area and change ...

We'd think our lovable free PHP IDE, Eclipse PDT, would come with word wrap functionality because it's so basic. Surprisingly, it doesn't. However, it's not complicated to add this feature to your Eclipse PDT editor. Go to Help -> Software Updates. Click Available Software. If the site 'http://ahtik.com/eclipse-update' is not already listed, click Add Site. Enter 'http://ahtik.com/eclipse-update'. Install Virtual Word Wrap by checking the left side box. Left click in the editor. Turn Virtual Word Wrap on by clicking it from the pop up window. We still have turn on the feature for each PHP file, but it's still better than ...