How do I know a payment has gone through using Realex in Magento?
When your Magento ecommerce website has taken a payment through Realex, it's important to know that the amount has actually be authorised and that you are not sending out products You will know you got an order in, usually through an email notification. To ensure the...
read moreRemoving background from images
I put together a quick tutorial video showing how you can easily and rapidly remove dark or noisy background from an image. This is especially important when you take pictures for products on your ecommerce website. Note, there are many tools in photoshop that you can...
read moreEditing / Adding Pictures to Gallery on WordPress
This uses the WP CANVAS GALLERY plugin. Go to the respective GALLERY page: You will see the below code: Note the IDs - ids="359,360,361,362" - these are the image IDs that have been uploaded. To add pictures, simply add more image IDs. Separate each image ID with a...
read moreHow To Set Up To Receive Low / Out of Stock Notifications
As a Magento User / Magento Site owner with a lot of stock to track, it can be useful to receive notifications when stock is getting low. Go to CATALOG > MANAGE PRODUCTS and hit the 'Notify Low Stock RSS'. You will then be required to enter your username and password...
read moreAssigning a Customer to a Customer Group in Magento
Some websites assign their customers to 'customer groups'. This can be useful if you want to group customers so you can assign them particular properties. For example you can assign certain customers special tax rules, pricing seperate from the general pricing set or...
read moreAmending / Editing Transactional Emails in Magento
This is the first of a few tutorials how to amend the default Magento transaction emails and personalise them how you see fit. 1. Log into your Magento Dashboard. Go to SYSTEM > TRANSACTIONAL EMAILS 2. You will either see a list of already 'tampered with' email...
read moreChange Admin / User Password in Magento Back-end
It's useful to change your passwords on a regular basis in order to keep your login details secure. Best practice passwords are ones that have lower and upper case letters, numbers and symbols in them. To change your password in Magento backend, log in. Go to SYSTEM >...
read moreYour Site’s No-Index Robots Settings
Magento >, Wordpress >, Joomla > When a developer builds a website, any website, and is doing so on a public server, they will normally set their site to 'no-index'. This is a tag that tell Google and other search engine robots 'DON'T LIST MY SITE ON YOUR SEARCH...
read moreCustom Order Export in Magento
By default, Magento's order export only exports a few basic fields, often not enough even basic information required to for anything. By customer request, we install an extension that extends the order export process; allowing you export all order components plus any...
read moreSetting Canonical Links for Duplicate Content in WordPress
If you have pages with duplicate content on your website (Wordpress included), it's best practice to prioritise which page you want Google to rank. Have a duplicate page or several duplicate pages can give Google mixed messages about your website, and dilute search...
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