Changing default category sort order in Magento
Moving Magento From One Server To Another Server
If you are a Magento developer sometimes you need to move the Magento eCommerce shop from one host server domain to new host server domain or from one directory location to another directory location. Migrating Magento to a new server is a simple task once you know how to do it. This “move Magento from one server to another” post will outline the steps involved to successfully migrate a Magento website.
Change Magento Admin Url
Category toolbar has many options. By default it shows how many items are in the category, you can choose how many products you wish to be displayed per page, you can change the listing type (List or Grid) and you may choose Sort Order. This “Sort Order” can be confusing. The default “Sort Order” is “Best Value”. What does it mean? How is the Best value determined? Can we change the default sort order?
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Improve your Magento Development skills by avoiding these mistakes
Now that you’ve decided to build a career in Magento Development it’s time for you to get acquainted with some of the most common mistakes that’re being committed by a good population of Magento developers. Having completed numerous Magento sites, I too have encountered a set of problems that’ve acted as major roadblocks in the route towards success.
In this article, I’ve compiled some of these mistakes that’ve become a part and parcel of almost every Magento coder’s life.
Adding Page Links to the Main Menu
The main menu, or top navigation in the header of your store typically includes the selection of categories from your catalog. In addition, you can use URL rewrites to link to content pages and external websites, such as a blog.
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Moving Magento From One Server To Another Server
If you are a Magento developer sometimes you need to move the Magento eCommerce shop from one host server domain to new host server domain or from one directory location to another directory location. Migrating Magento to a new server is a simple task once you know how to do it. This “move Magento from one server to another” post will outline the steps involved to successfully migrate a Magento website.
- Magento template path hints is the BEST inbuilt tool for magento template and theme designer , by this tool you may get the path of the view file .
- Template Path Hints are little tags which would lie on top of your shop frontend. These little tags enable you to view where exactly the code of a specific element is stored within your file structure. Bottom line Template Path Hints saves you a lot of frustration.
How to turn on Template Path Hints?
- Login to your admin Control Panel
- Select System Tab,In that go to Configuration Menu.
- in configuration menu, go to the Advanced Section at the bottom and select Developer tab.
- After This,Go to the top left Corner and then select "Current Configuration Scope" as Main Website.
- Then,in right side select the Debug tab under Developer and in that set template Path Hints to YES as shown in below Image.
- Save the Configuration and go to the Frontend and Refresh the page.you'll see the path for the magento template html view file . as below
Change Magento Admin Url
To protect your Magento backend against hackers and brute-force attacks, we recommend that you change the default URL to the Magento Admin Panel. It is a quick way to add an extra layer of security to your site.
Follow these steps to change the admin URL/path.
- Open the app/etc/local.xml configuration file in your favorite text editor, or use the Text Editor in the cPanel File Manager. Locate the following code segment
- In that just change the line <frontName><!CDATA[admin]></frontname> with the name of your choice. for example.<frontName><!CDATA[Admin_Shop_portal]></frontName>.See the below code Segment:
- After Doing this Step,Just Clear the Magento cache to take the effect of a change.
- to clear cache,just go to magento admin control panel.In system tab Navigate to Cache Management .disable all the cache types.Then,Click on flush magento cache and also flush the cache storage.
- Again enable all the cache types and you are done.
- There is one more way to clear cache.just open the magento installation root directory.Inside root Directory,go to var/cache and delete all the cache folders from there.
404 not Found error on extension page
- Sometimes after installation of new extension,we might get 404 error message like the below Image:
- The Solution for this kind of error messages is Permissions.
- just follow this steps mentioned below:
- login to your Admin control panel.
- go to Systems --> Permissions --> Roles
- Click on Administrator role.
- After that just go to Role Users in Administrators on left side.
- Just Click on reset filter and you are done.
- Then,Navigate to system ->Configuration -->Click on your extension and you will be able to see the options.
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