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The future of Magento in the new X.com world
Remember that blog I wrote a while back raising some of the concerns when eBay acquired Magento? Time to revisit. I certainly wasn’t the only one asking ‘are they Apple or Microsoft’? X.Commerce Innovate 2011 has been and gone. So what’s changed in Magento World? Here are my own thoughts: Magento [...]
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WebShopApps goes Gold
Busy times for WebShopApps. We re-brand with a new website and embark on our first significant marketing campaign since launch. Today we proudly announce ourselves as Gold Industry Partners of Magento. We are Gold Sponsors of both X.Commerce Innovate and Meet Magento UK. I’m shattered Thank You Its easy to say those 2 words, but trust [...]
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Installing Community Extensions via Command Line (SSH)
I never really liked the idea of having to change permissions of my magento install to add on new extensions. So here is how to do via SSH. Obviously this only works if you have SSH access to your website. Firstly, navigate to base magento directory ./mage mage-setup ./mage -V ./mage list-channels ./mage install connect20.magentocommerce.com/community/ [...]
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Fedex Shipping in Magento 1.6
What’s Going On Then? Magento have implemented Fedex Web Services in the 1.6 release. Up until this release they were using the Fedex ‘DC’ API which is due to be retired in early 2012. So what’s the impact on you? You can’t just put in your Fedex number and get rates You may need to install [...]
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Gold Sponsors X.Commerce Innovate 2011
It’s a great day for WebShopApps.com. After 3 years of extremely hard work, I’m pleased to announce we are finally stepping out and doing some marketing! We are official Gold Sponsors of X.Commerce Innovate 2011. We are extremely excited about seeing what the future for Magento will be, and believe this conference will be where [...]
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Magento, X.Commerce & the Community
Okay, so I’m sticking my neck out here, I don’t blog as much as I would like (2 young children & running WebShopApps.com kind of stops a lot of things), and although I rant verbally I try not to write it down too often. But I’m sort of hoping I can get across what I [...]
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Resolving Magento Extension Conflicts
What are extension conflicts? One of the biggest problems we see as Magento matures is extension conflicts. This is where you have or more extensions effectively replacing the same core files in Magento. If you see an extension that uses the word “<rewrite>” in it’s config.xml file be aware that you may hit conflicts [...]
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Tiered Pricing on Configurable Products
A customer recently came to us with a query around configurable products and tiered pricing. Lets say, for simplicity, he was selling soap. A large soap and small soap are different prices. He wanted to configure tiered pricing on the soaps, with discounts for multiple purchases, but obviously the tiered prices differed across products.
Here's the products we've created to demonstrate.....
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What’s changed in Magento 1.4.2
Changes that may affect us The new 1.4.2 version of Magento Community has now been updated to a release candidate status, and will probably be live by the end of 2010. According to Magento, it’s mainly a bug fix release, but there are a few items that may affect our extensions. One of the biggest [...]
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UPS Negotiated Rates in Magento