Change your Magento URL Change URL in Dashboard Change URL in phpMyAdmin There may be times when you need to change the URL, or domain Read More >
Magento
Magento has many different modules included by default. These modules extend and enhance the functionality of your Magento site. Should you decide that you do Read More >
One of the first things you see when you visit your new Magento 1.6 shopping cart is the default welcome message in the upper right Read More >
At the bottom of your newly installed Magento 1.6 shopping cart, there’s a footer that contains the copyright information. Magento 1.6 allows you to completely Read More >
Magento 1.6 allows you to further customize your shopping cart by adding a custom favicon. By default, the favicon is set to the Magento 1.6 Read More >
In your Magento 1.6 Admin Panel the main screen when you log in is referred to as your Dashboard. The Dashboard contains statistics about your Read More >
When you log into the Magento 1.6 admin panel, by default it is not case sensitive. Forcing the login to be case sensitive will improve Read More >
When you log into the Magento 1.6 admin panel, you will see the Magento Dashboard. While the dashboard may contain valuable information, it may not Read More >
Locale options in Magento 1.6 define the local time and date settings as well as the weekend days of your Magento shopping cart. Weekend days Read More >
Now, that you have installed your Magento 1.6 store, and you’re selling products on the Internet, you’ve become a global business. Anyone with an Internet Read More >
As you start to customize your newly installed Magento 1.6 webstore, you’ll probably want to change the logo that displays in the top right section Read More >
When you first log into the Magento 1.6 Admin backend you are presented with the Dashboard. This dashboard gives you statistics or reports. If you Read More >
By default, Magento 1.6 allows your website’s visitors or guests to write reviews for your products. there may be times when you want to disable Read More >
How to Display Products that are Out of Stock in Magento 1.6
By default, Magento 1.6 will not display products that you do not have inventory for. If a product has no inventory your website’s visitors will Read More >
Magento 1.6 will not allow backorders of products. Before you can allow products to be displayed that has no stock inventory you should set your Read More >
Setting Magento 1.6 to Not decrease Stock When Order is Placed
Magento 1.6 will automatically decrease your stock inventories when an order is placed. This can be a great feautre if you sell physical products. However, Read More >
Magento 1.6 has a powerful logging system that can be extremely helpful when debugging any issues you may have. If there’s an error there is Read More >
Magento 1.6 has a built in setting that can help you debug any issues that may arise due to memory usage. By enabling the Debug Read More >
By default, Magento 1.6 will not merge the Javascript files of your web store. Merging the files, can help speed up your website by reducing Read More >
Magento 1.6 gives you the ability to merge the CSS files of your Magento shopping cart. This can be beneficial in speeding up how fast Read More >
Magento Community Edition has released it’s next version, Magento Preview Version CE 1.7.0.0-RC-1. This new version has recently been moved from Beta and is on Read More >
Forcing Shoppers to Read your Terms and Conditions in Magento 1.6
One of the most important pages on your Magento 1.6 webstore can be your Terms & conditions. The terms and conditions page should include the Read More >
Magento 1.6 indexes all of your content in order to speed up how fast it accesses it. If you make changes to your store such Read More >
Magento 1.6 by default has a compilation tool built into it. When you first configure Magento, the compiler is disabled and your files have not Read More >
By default your Magento 1.6 store will have various links such as “About Us” and “Customer Service” in the footer of your new Magento shopping Read More >
You may want your web store’s customers to acknowledge certain terms and special conditions before purchasing products. You can easily enable Terms and Conditions so Read More >
At times you may want to temporarily disable your terms and conditions page without actually deleting it. You can disable the terms and conditions at Read More >
This post is archived and is no longer being maintained. Information within the post may be out of date. Magento 1.6 comes with a default Read More >
This post is archived and is no longer being maintained. Information within the post may be out of date. Magento 1.6 has the ability to Read More >
Magento 1.6 has a powerful “checks and balances” system built into it that will notify you of various reminders, like updating your cache/ index or Read More >
The Magento 1.6 notification system is quite powerful and will notfiy you of various settings that may need to changed. You’ll want to delete the Read More >
Magento 1.6 includes a backup tool that will backup your Magento database. Backing up your Magento 1.6 shopping cart regularly is extremely important since your Read More >
Magento 1.6 includes a backup tool that will backup your Magento database and regularly backing up your Magento web store is important. However, you do Read More >
Magento 1.6 can be quite memory intensive due to its robust design. You can adjust the memory limits to reduce or eliminate the memory errors Read More >
In Magento, you have the opportunity to create promotions to entice your webstore’s visitors to purchase products from your website. There’s different ways to create Read More >
In Magento 1.6, you have the opportunity to create promotions to entice your webstore’s visitors to purchase products from your website. There’s different ways to Read More >
You can create customer groups within Magento 1.6 to further customize your Magento store. Customer groups are an easy way to cluster customers together to Read More >
Magento 1.6 allows you to create customer groups. At any time you need to remove or delete a customer group it can be easily done. Read More >
Magento 1.6 will allow you to see customers that were logged into your website at any given time. This includes any customer not logged in Read More >
You can customize the 404 page in Magento 1.6. If your site visitors try to go to a page that does not exist, you can Read More >
You can preview any of the pages in the content management system (CMS) built into Magento. Having the ability to preview the page allows you Read More >
Magento 1.6 comes pre-configured with some static pages in the CMS section. Depending on your site, you may need to delete them. Deleting pages in Read More >
Magento 1.6 has a powerful content management system built into the backend. You can disable any of the static CMS pages without deleting it. this Read More >
When you first installed Magento 1.6 you added the admin email address to your account. At times you may find it necessary to update this Read More >
During the installation process we set up the admin username as “admin”. While this is easy to use, it can be guessed easily by hackers. Read More >
In Magento 1.6, you can specify a “special” price for products for a certain date range. This allows you to automatically manage “specials” or sales. Read More >
In Magento 1.6, you have the ability to allow your customers to add a gift message to the order. This is a great feature especially Read More >
Disabling or Enabling gift messages on Products in Magento 1.6
Since you have the ability to add gift messages to the entire order or individual items in the order in Magento 1.6, you also have Read More >
Depending on how your configuration is set for Magento 1.6 you may not be able to allow backorders. You can configure each individual product to Read More >
At any time, you can mark a product out of stock even if you have quanitities of the product. One instance where you may use Read More >
In Magento 1.6, your customers can create accounts so they can return to the site and easily purchase more products. If customers want to tag Read More >
302: How to get Magento to use both regular and secure connections
Many site owners want customers to be able to access their Magento catalog via normal http protocol, but switch over to https (secure) protocol for Read More >
Security Alert – 4/30/2015 – Magento code execution vulnerability
Magento Critical Vulnerability Issue: Magento has discovered a code-execution hole in both the community and enterprise editions. Status: Update has been released. Who is impacted? Read More >
Who is affected? – Users of Magento Community Edition and Enterprise Edition. Have these issues been addressed? – The SUPEE-5994 Patch Bundle covers eight different Read More >
Who is affected? – Users of Magento Community Edition prior to 1.9.2.0. Have these issues been addressed? – The SUPEE-6285 Patch Bundle covers eight different Read More >
Issue: It has come to our attention that Magento released a Critical Security Patch (SUPEE-7405) on 1/27/2016. This patch includes fixes for several Critical, and Read More >
Issue: Magento has released a critial security update to address know vulnerabilities. The Magento Security team is advising everyone to “ deploy these new releases Read More >
In this tutorial, we will show you how to Install Magento 2 using Softaculous. This saves time by allowing you to easily setup Magento with Read More >
Issue: On 3/26/2019 the Magento Security team identified and released several security updates. This includes fixes for critical vulnerabilities in some versions of Magento. Who Read More >
Magento 1.6 uses three pre-defined email addresses in certain situations. By default, you can specify the General Contact, Sales Representative, and Customer Support email addresses. Read More >
Getting Started
In this Magento 1.6 installation guide, we’ll show you how to install Magento and get your store up and running in no time. Since Magento Read More >
At this point, you’ve installed and configured Magento and you’re ready to log into your Magento 1.6 Admin Panel. The administrator backend is where you’ll Read More >
Rarely should you need to create a new customer in Magento 1.6, however, you can easily do so if needed. A new customer can be Read More >
Adding products in Magento 1.6 is important since you want your website visitors to be able to find and purchase the goods and services you Read More >
At times, you may need to know what version of Magento 1.6 you are running. This information can be handy if you are troubleshooting an Read More >
It is important to stay on top of Magento security practices to protect your website and customer data against cyber intrusions. Below we’ll cover some Read More >
Administration
Magento 1.6 has a default title used as the meta-title on all non-content pages that do not have a custom title. You can change this Read More >
Regularly changing your Magento 1.6 password helps to secure your Magento website. This gives hackers less of an opportunity to “guess” your password. Changing your Read More >
As the admin of your Magento 1.6 web store, you may have to delete customers from time to time. A customer could have a fraudulent Read More >
In this tutorial: Clear Cache in the Admin Panel Clear Cache Manually Magento 1.6 by default includes a caching system to help improve the performance. Read More >
Magento 1.6 allows you to enter contact information so your website visitors can contact you. This information will be displayed on the website for your Read More >
Store
When a customer of your Magento 1.6 website leaves a review, you must approve it before it will show up on the site. If you Read More >
In Magento 1.6 customers have the ability to leave customer reviews on your products. We’re going to show you how customers create a review in Read More >
Magento 1.6 by default, has shipping for multiple shipping providers already available in the Magento Admin. This makes things easy is you use any of Read More >
Magento 1.6 gives the admin the capability to easily configure free shipping. Free shipping can be a great selling point to convince your website visitors Read More >
Set up Flat Rate Shipping for a Specific Country in Magento 1.6
Magento 1.6 has a lot of different configurable shipping options. You can easily set up falt rate shipping for the country you are located in. Read More >
Products
If some of your products will be out of stock for a long time or indefinitely you may want to simply disable the product. This Read More >
Once your Magento 1.6 store is up and running you may change which products your store carries. In cases like this, you may want to Read More >
In the previous tutorial we showed you how to create product categories to better organize your products. At any time, you can delete product categories. Read More >
Magento 1.6 allows you to categorize all your products into groups. this helps to better organize your product base making it easier for your customers Read More >
Tags
You may want to delete a tag that was previously approved or pending in the Magento 1.6 Backend. One good reason to delete tags is Read More >
If a customer submits a tag for a product before it will display on the front end of Magento 1.6 it must be first approved Read More >
Now, that you’ve read the article on what product tags are, we can create tags in the backend of Magento 1.6. Tags are great ways Read More >
Magento 1.6 allows the use of tags as descriptors that can be assigned to any product to help further organize and categorize them. You can Read More >