Blog Posts

  • How to Turn On Layered Navigation in Magento Categories

    For some stores, on the category pages you will want your customers to be able to filter products based on different attributes. Magento calls this Layered Navigation. Well, at least they do in the layout code and in documentation.

    However, when it comes to actually enabling this setting they decided to call it something different in the administration interface to confuse us. We’re not going to let a little obfuscation deny us some of the...

  • Add Magento Categories Without Them Appearing in Frontend Navigation

    Just a one-liner post really. With Magento 1.4.1.0, there is now a setting to disable a category from appearing in the frontend navigation bar. For each category in admin, you will see an option at the bottom of the general information tab: “Include in Navigation Menu”.

  • Magento Error: Skip Import Row, Required Field “sku” Not Defined

    I was getting this error message when doing an import of simple products in to a Magento store. I already had some products in the store so I had run the “export all products” profile to get a starting spreadsheet to add to.

    Unfortunately, when I came to reimport the spreadsheet, it did the first few lines successfully and then failed. It failed on the first line of my newly added products complaining about undefined...

  • How to Get Product Attributes in Magento Frontend

    Almost every store is going to require custom attributes for its products. Naturally, you are going to want to advertise some of these features on the category and product listing pages. So I’d thought I’d take the time to write a short note on how to get this done.

    Initially, for each product attribute which you want to use on the product page or category page, you will have tell Magento whether or not they...