If you’re building Magento extensions that function in the Magento admin and which have to be used in SSL’d and non-SSL’d environments, you can not use a regular $this->getUrl() call to construct your urls. Instead, use Mage::getSingleton(’adminhtml/ur...

Recently I downloaded a Magento module that seemed to do what I want:  a list of tweets of a certain user, displayed in the frontend of Magento. However, the module was a widget. I did not want to create a CMS page or block solely for inputting the widget’s variable so I s...

There’s a new to-do item management module released that makes for an excellent way of keeping an overview of your pending tasks from within your store’s admin. You can assign tasks to team members, comment / take notes and check them as completed from anywhere in th...

Magento just announced their widget system. Very nice, appears to solve three major pain points (with regards to missing or hard to use functions) in the CMS: Using Magento functionality inside CMS pages; Using other content blocks inside CMS pages; Linking to other pages within...

Because of the open nature of Magento’s commerce platform, and the fast spread of adoption of the platform there’s a wide range of commercially available modules in the market right now. Examples of module shops are (but are not limited to) AheadWorks, WebshopExtensio...

Recently we had a fairly large customer base we had to import from an ePages shop into Magento. During import with dataflow profiles, using some test data, we found that all email addresses of the test data received a newsletter subscription success email (we imported clients wit...

Magento’s AJAXy one page checkout is nice, but determining how well each step performs can be a little difficult. Google Analytics results will just show a customer reaching the one page checkout and not the conversion performance of each separate step… The easiest wa...

There is a lot of talk on IE6 lately. Digg and YouTube now don’t support IE6 anymore for (parts of) functionality on their sites. As mentioned in a Computerworld article, supporting IE6 can mean a lot of extra development effort. Magento is a pretty HTML/CSS/JavaScript heav...

Magento had a webinar yesterday where the roadmap for the Magento Enterprise Edition for Q3 / Q4 2009, & early 2010 was given. Some very exciting (and much-needed) new features were announced, hot off the presses here are the highlights: A WYSISYG CMS system with a lot more ...

Great, those Magento template sites providing cheap or even free templates! However, before you start you should be aware of these possible issues: Most, if not all, of the cheap or free templates look a lot like default Magento installations. If that is not what you’re lo...