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This tutorial shows how to manage layered navigation block in Magento.

This tutorial is going to help you edit product details in your Magento store on the example of this one.

This tutorial is going to show you how to  manage social-media sharing icons on the product details pages of your Magento template.

Issue: You have installed Magento 1.6.x template and sample date but your website redirects to some another URL like http://localhost/magento.

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This tutorial shows how to resolve the Magento admin panel login issue.

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This tutorial show how to resolve the Magento error: “Magento An error occurred while saving the URL rewrite”

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This tutorial shows how to set the number of columns in category products listing in Magento store.

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This tutorial is going to help you understand the dump.sql file usage on our Magento templates.

Starting from #30323 all Magento templates are provided with two dump SQL files: dump.sql and dump_minimal.sql. You can find them included to the “sources” folder of your template package.

The SQL files allow you to make your installed template look like the template preview …

Working with Magento e-commerce store you can encounter the issue with the missing products. For example you added product to some category and it’s not displayed at the frontend.

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 This tutorial is going to show you how to change the base URL in your Magento website.

The Magento Base URL is the URL used to access Store pages. It can be set on a per Store basis, so every Store could have its own Base URL. To change it:

1. Log in into yourMagento admin
2. Navigate to: System->Configurations and select

On the 18th of august 2011 there was a new Magento release available for download. It contains a bunch of updates and improvements like:

• XmlConnect package release v21 ;
• Order Payment Action for Express Checkout (PayPal)
   – Added settings Authorization Honor Period and Order Valid Period into EC tab in the backend
   – Automatically new authorize transaction created after order

This quick guide will help you to pass all steps of the Magento template installation. You can check the Magento template product description to learn more about Magento templates.

Before you start working with the purchased template please check several things:

1. Make sure you’ve already ordered hosting account and domain name.
2. Check Magento engine requirements and make sure

This tutorial will show you how to display new products on the home page using the XML layout update.

Open Magento admin panel. Go to CMS>Pages>Home Page.  Switch to the Design tab. Into the Layout Update XML window paste the following code:

1. First of all create the content reference:

  <reference  name="content">

  </reference>

This will let you put the …

This tutorial will show you how to display new products on the home page in Magento using the Magento block.

• Open Magento admin panel
• Go to CMS>Pages>Home page
• Switch to the content tab
• Insert the following code:

{{block  type="catalog/product_new" column_count="6"  products_count="12" name="home.catalog.product.new"  alias="product_homepage"  template="catalog/product/list.phtml"}}

Where:

• column_count="6" – number of the product columns
• products_count="12" – number of the displayed

This tutorial will show you how to avoid the base URL field verification. When you are installing the Magento engine to your local server for testing purposes you may see the Base URL field verification message:

The easiest way to avoid the verification error is to change the Base URL field class.

1. Open the browser development tool (for example Firebug

This tutorial will show you how to install Magento frontend translations. By default Magento frontend is in English. Magento backend (the admin panel) has multiple languages included so you can select the necessary translation.

The  available Magento translations could be downloaded from magentocommerce.com

1. Open the localization pack you need and click the Get Extension Key button. Select the

This tutorial will show you how to use the Magento debugging tools to easily locate the module names and core source files.

Let’s see what advantages give us the Magento debug tools. Here you can see the default Magento store home page without any products installed. You can hardly say what each block does and how to edit it.

With …

This tutorial will show you how to manage the sidebar blocks in Magento.

Home page blocks in Magento are controlled by the Magento administration panel. So all change should be done there.

1. Open Magento admin panel

2. Go to CMS > Pages > Home Page

3. Open the Design tab, in the Layout Update XML …

The following tutorial will show you how to manage the sidebar images (called callouts) in Magento. It’s an easy task, but finding them requires a small bit of digging (as usual).

To make locating callouts easy we recommend you to enable the debug tools.

After enabling the Template Path Hints and Block Names you can see that the template files …

This tutorial will show you where you can find the sidebar modules code.

Open app\design\frontend\default\your_theme\layout. This directory contains the XML files that determine the modules positions and order. Open any XML file and search for the tag <reference>. The reference tags determine modules position for various pages of your Magento store.

As you can see there are several references like: …

Magento templates starting from 32147 are fully compatible with Magento 1.4.2.0

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Starting from Magento template #31965 Magento templates will be offered only with English language included. All other languages should be installed separately.

In case you need more Magento localizations installed please visit the Magento official website at magentocommerce.com
There from the extensions section you can download the available Magento localizations.

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Sometimes it is necessary to reinstall the Magento engine. This should be done, for example, when you are trying to install the template and the sample data after the Magento engine installation. In order to reinstall the Magento engine and the database from scratch you should do the following:

•    Get access to your database using the PhpMyAdmin tool or …

In case you want to disable blocks on the home page follow the steps below:

1. Enter the Magento admin panel
2. Select the “CMS” tab
3. Select “Manage Pages”
4. And now select “Home Page”

5. The “General information” tab is the  middle column html content of the home page. You can copy the html code from the content …

For adding a new product attribute set you should:

1. Log in to the Magento admin panel
2. Click the “Catalog” tab in the Magento admin main menu.
3. Select “Attributes” and click “Manage Attribute Sets”.

Here you can see the “Manage Attribute Sets” page. The only available attribute set is “Default”.

4. Click “Add New Set”
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1. All the modifications should be done in the “/skin/frontend/blank/themexxx/css/styles.css” file

2. Download this file to your computer and open it with your HTML editor. The .CSS file is structured in a user-friendly way, so you can locate any style quite easily. As …

1. Log in to the Magento admin panel
2. Click the “Catalog” tab in the Magento admin main menu.

3. Select “Attributes” and click the “Manage Attributes” button. Here you can see all the attributes used in the Magento store. You …

1. Open the admin panel, type “admin” after your domain name in the browser address bar.
2. Go to the “CMS” tab
3. Click the “Poll Manager” button
4. Here you can see the default poll, click on it for editing. You can edit the poll title …

For editing the product listing layout please follow the steps below:

1. Open the Magento admin panel
2. Select the “System” tab
3. Then click the “Configuration” menu item
4. Click the “Catalog” menu
5. Then open the “Frontend” tab
6. List Mode is set to “Grid Only” by default. As you can see in the “Grid” mode, the products are displayed this way.
7. You can

1. Open www.magentocommerce.com
2. Go to “Product>Extensions” and click the “Magento core” button
3. Click “Get extension key” button and copy your extension key
4. Open Magento admin panel.
5. Go to “System>Magento connect>Magento Connect Manager”
6. Paste your extension key here and click …

Starting from the template #30323 Magento templates are provided with two dump SQL files: dump.sql and dump_minimal.sql.

SQL files allow you to make your installed template appear as at the template preview without any manual configuration.

dump_minimal.sql – is used to configure the template and make it appear as at the template Preview. Replaces your store configuration with the template …