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Magento uses index heavily for faster processing and retrieval or records from the database. Most of the time when you update products ideally you were re-indexing your so that Magento indexes the updated records and show them on frontend. Read this interesting post to learn How To Run Magento Indexer From Command Line. The approach is fine but sometimes when you re-index from Magento admin panel you will notice errors like “An error occurred while saving the URL rewrite” or “cannot initialize indexer process” etc. There can be ...

Have you ever witnessed a scenario where your Magento store's database or tables got corrupt? The most sane way to fix the issue is to download Magento database repair tool and get them fixed. If you are using Magento Database backup extension you can simply reload the database from your backed up copy (easy isn't it?) but if you aren't using this extension you can still use Magento repair tool to repair your database. Magento Database Repair tool compares 2 databases i.e. Corrupt and target (reference) databases. Magento database repair tool will compare and from the reference database ...

If you are migrating to Magento having thousands of products, affiliates, manufacturers and lots of custom attributes, things may not be easy for you. Magento itself provides an easy set of features to import lots of useful data but the pain area still lies when you try to import custom attributes, option attributes etc. For an example let's say you have hundreds of manufacturers details which needs to be added to your Magento store you have to ...

To understand Magento REST API first let's understand what is REST API. In general terms REST resources are simply the entities or identities that are exposed to the developer. REST defines the identity of the resource via the URI (uniform resource identifier). Each resource has a unique URL address and any interaction with a resource takes place at its URI. If you are running a Magento store you must be aware that Magento only had good SOAP support to integrate your business. Unfortunately, SOAP based API's have their ...

Have you ever felt a need where one or many of your individual blocks shouldn't be cached by Magento automatically? We are talking about any individual block and not the entire "block html" caching. Lets me first tell you how Magento works. Magento uses construct functions within their block classes, which ensures that your store's head, header and footer and any child blocks are cached automatically. This is a great feature of Magento which ensures every block of module is cached unless specified otherwise. While doing an extension we realized that we don't ...

AJAX (aka asynchronous JavaScript and XML) driven websites especially Magento powered E-commerce stores often loads much faster in comparison to those which are solely dependent on Magento's default libraries. Using AJAX in Magento offers great advantage in terms of speed and user experience. As we know that Magento is bit slow comparing to other popular open source apps like WordPress so it becomes almost vital to use extensive AJAX to make your Magento store faster by avoiding page re-loads especially in scenarios where you only need a block to update. If ...

Many of our customers asked us to recommend a better Magento Hosting for their Magento store. We were simply pointing them to one of the best hosting providers who support Magento well. Unfortunately, there were many customers who felt that either support wasn't that great or the pricing was too high. We took the challenge to figure out which hosting will suit most to small-medium sized Magento stores. Our quest ended when we tested Host1Plus.com, we tried Magento CRON, setup entire store, setup multi-stores and ...