Magento Development

You may want to “turn off” certain modules in Magento because you don’t use them in your store. Examples of unwanted modules could be Customer Wishlist, Product Tags, Reviews, etc etc

Just a short sweet tip that will be essential as soon as you dive into any sort of debugging or development with Magento. Enable logging in the admin then use the static method log() to record information.

If you want to add Google Analytics to your Magento store, don’t go diving into templates or setting fancy layout updates.. The good folks at Magento have made it nice and easy; simply enable Google Analytics in your Magento admin.

Magento’s default contact form asks the user for the essential contact info, e.g. name, email etc.. But you may need to ask for some additional info by adding some custom fields. Here’s how to do it.

If you need to add a custom State / Province / Region to a Country in Magento, you’ll need to modify the database manually as there currently isn’t a means to do this from within the Magento admin. Fortunately it’s pretty simple.