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I have noticed a lot of sites replace the default OnePage checkout with 3rd party modules. Two replacements I am familiar with is OneStep, and CheckItOut. My personal opinion, from experience, is ...

I've developed a bespoke module which lists a series of people on the site. Each person has their own URL (a bespoke Magento controller, which does basic CRUD on Person models) and I need to feed ...

I noticed when I merge the CSS/JS files then enable Gzip in the htaccess, JS doesn't compress. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? Update: Htaccess File Content ################################...

I have been considering studying to become a Magento Certified Developer. When I look at the study guide I see a lot of questions that I can answer, however, the problem is I don't really know what ...

I opened a product in the backend, but when I switch to the categories tab, the category tree is fully collapsed. I would have to expand all categories to see in which ones the product is in. How can ...

We have a lot of small CSS and JS files and enabling merging seems to be a good choice. Many of the CSS and JS files are used on every page (home page, category page, product detail page). Whenever ...

We host a shop with around 100 orders per day. In the day time there are around 10 orders per hour. Some times, for an hour there is no order at all. The shop owner, who monitors the current ...

We are using PayPal express payments and the OneStepCheckout module. A customer reported that he tried to make an order, but when clicking "buy" the waiting animation keeps being displayed and he is ...

Suppose that we changed a lot of functionality for the module (templates, layouts, CSS) and we are going to move these changes to the production site, but a lot of customers have cached CSS in their ...

I have a widget setup on all category pages via backend -> CMS - > Widgets Now when I use this method I select a block for category pages and the block shows up nicely. It is at the bottom of all ...

Question is less about specific Mysql configuration items, but more about handling multiple databases, splitting read and writes to multiple database servers, master+master? Master+Multiple Slaves? ...

I can assign multiple products into a category when I am creating a category, but how can I assign a category to multiple products at once? I have tried to check multiple products in Manage ...

What is the most common process for importing products? Does everyone use the product import/export tool? The CSV file format is not something that the client is likely to fill in and if they try it ...

I am acting as a sysadmin for a couple of servers that hold Magento sites and occasionally they fill up with session files. I have been told that managing these files isn't something that can be done ...

Is there a way to hide categories that don't have active products? Or, even better, only show categories that have active products and stock.

How do you log in an existing customer/user from external application or bypass his session after logging into Magento to other application?

I have implemented hole-punching of header in Magento, and even though I have got it working on a per-customer basis, I need the ability to take this one level deeper by making it work on diff cart ...

Here is the situation: I have several self made modules, all tested and working using the default theme. Then we bought and installed a new theme. Switched to the new theme and the modules are not ...

Our apparel store is built with configurable products. We'd like to create a Catalog Price Rule that targets only specific variants of a configurable product. For example, all 'Guys' shirts. It doesn'...

In Magento, the Layered Navigation block works nicely in the product list page. How can this block be successfully copied to a custom page, where there is a custom list of products? Note: Just ...

I'm running several Magento CE shops and speed them up with caching, however the cart and checkout still remain slow. Does anyone have experience or tips in speeding up these pages? Perhaps through ...

We're using an extension which globally overwrites the Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List_Toolbar block. <global> <blocks> <catalog> <rewrite> ...

We use UsaEPay payment system for our site (But I think this problem/question persists for other payment methods as well). The way the system works is, that the "Authorize and Capture" batches the ...

I'd like to configure the Magento site to be able to recognize the default language and location of the user and display the site in that language and with appropriate localization. For example: A ...

I've looked at several pages regarding adding another language support to the Magento cart, however, there seems to be something missing. The usual is to download translation through the admin ...

When setting up a new Magento configuration, in the payments section I am given a couple different options for Payment Action under Authorize.net. Specifically Authoize and Capture and Authorize Only. ...

I want to sort Magento products on a list page for a specific category according to my given order. Can I have a text field in each product and give any number and my products in that specific ...