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Migrating Magento from Development (Staging) to Production (Live) is a challenging tasks especially if you haven't done it before. Learn the painless Magento migration from Development to Production servers. For moving magento from development to live server you need to upload your magento directory to live server and then change the db configuration from "app/etc/local.xml" to connect to the live database. Step 1: Take a backup of entire Magento database as .sql file. So, for an example your development site is located at http://devsite.com/ and your live ...

Since Magento uses stock information In Stock and Out of Stock to show products on a Magento store unless specified otherwise. This default directive prevents it from showing any products that do not have inventory associated with them. This will pose a problem in two specific scenarios i.e. Pre-selling products won't be possible since Magento won't display out of stock products Won't allow you to back order stocks information Although, there is a setting in Magento which will allow you to display products even if they ...

Magento store owners spend numerous hours on customer's experience, nice layouts, handy extensions to cater customers requirements with a goal to make overall customer's buying flow better and smooth. You don't need to read a study to figure out that stores having much higher traffic have much better conversions and revenue. Unfortunately, they tend to ignore one of the most important thing "Holiday season peak load". If you haven't invested enough hours preparing your Magento store to handle high load already, you must be ...

There are several cool things which you can do with Magento. Here are few Magento problem statements and their solution. How to display the list of categories in Magento theme's footer This is pretty simple, all you have to do is call this neat little function in you footer file...

Product reviews helps in boosting customer's confidence in your product. No points for guessing why they are one of the primary driving force behind conversion. Amazon is a great example of product reviews where a majority of the products are sold due to efficient reviews posted by their consumers. To show the review form and product reviews on product page in Magento Theme you need to edit catalog.xml found here app/design/frontend/default/YourTheme/layout/catalog.xml You need to find catalog_product_view class. Inside this reference add the following code:...

All Magento themes are built keeping generic features in mind, but to make a brand name you have to customize your Magento store to match with your requirements and preferred look and feel. I am going to give you 5 simple ways to customize a Magento theme. I am assuming that you are using fresh Magento copy on your server. Magento Customization Tip 1: To start you need to create two dirs. Basicly you can just copy the theme from Magento default theme folder - copy /app/design/frontend/default/default to /app/design/frontend/default/your_theme (contain layout and html files) - copy ...

Unless you are a big brand like Amazon or eBay with millions of customers there is always a probability that your existing store design is not perfect and there is a great margin of improvements. We have noticed that many store owners are still using default Magento designs i.e. Modern Theme. Well, there is nothing wrong in using default Magento layout but it sends a wrong signal that store owner is not serious enough to spend on it’s layout and functionality. Keep in mind that to make your store popular, ...