Blog Posts

  • Show All Products in a Magento Category by Default

    If you don’t have many items in each of your categories, you may be interested in showing all products by default. The customer can then request to show less products and enforce pagination if they so wish.

    This was exactly the request I recently got from a client. Although I would not recommend it if you have too many products as it will result in a lot of non-requested scrolling for the visitor!

    After checking...

  • Comic: Magento Developer Excuses Part 1

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    As my recent posts have hinted at, I have been working to import a client’s products into their new Magento store.

    Getting product information in to the correct spreadsheet format is time consuming enough. Then, you come to import and find you have completed a column wrong, or forgotten to put the leading slash in front of the image file names and find you need to run the import profile...

  • Review: Magento Bulk Product Import Module

    Time for a product review. I’ve used a Product Import module from Magento Connect for a couple of Meanbee projects now and have been so impressed that I thought I’d share it with you.

    Out of the box, Magento does not support the importing of:

    • Multiple/Gallery Images
    • Configurable Products
    • Bundle Products
    • Related Products
    • Cross-sells
    • Up-sells
    • Custom Options

    This is severely limiting. This would put many people off Magento if they thought they...

  • Having Trouble Importing Product Images into Magento?

    So you’ve done a product import via spreadsheet only to find that none of your products have images. Bummer.

    There are a couple of things that you should check:

    1. /media/import - ensure that all images that you wanted to import have been placed in this folder of the Magento installation on your server.
    2. Leading slash - every image file name in the spreadsheet that you are going to import requires a leading forward slash,...