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  • Making sure you Magento Cron is working properly

    Every Magento webstore relies on cron job to do some of the work. There are numerous parts of Magento that depend on the Magento cron setup, so that everything on your store will function as it should.   A lot of what’s Magento doing in the background is dependent and relies only on proper cron job setup. From sending out newsletters and applying various discount rules, to the system maintenance – cleaning up the log files and refreshing the cache....
    May 29th, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Color Swatch compatibility with iPhone, iPad and other touch devices

    Not too long ago, computers were the main electronic device for browsing the internet, however that is in the past and now  a significant number of customers use tablets or mobile phones to browse the internet. Due to the changes in technology,  it is mandatory for your Magento store to have a responsive design, that way it can be accessed on  a wide variety of devices. Besides having a website that  looks good, it is important that the functionality of...
    March 13th, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Advanced Search Suggests – Advanced Search Suggests on frontend

    Advanced Search Suggests on frontend Advanced Search Suggests extension will upgrade Magento default search form with AJAX delivered content according to searched terms. Suggested Terms section will offer similar search terms with real time highlight feature that makes search easier and precise, increasing number of successful searches. Suggest Products section will offer suggested product with selected product information’s (title, description, image, and price) with option to buy product directly from search form. Customizing Advanced Search Suggests Extension templates are free...
    March 3rd, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Advanced Search Suggests – Advanced Search Suggests Settings

    Advanced Search Suggests Settings After successful installation of Magento Advanced Search Suggests extension go to “System >> Configuration” in left menu you will see ‘Advanced Search Suggests’ tab under ‘Extensions Mall’ group. Magento Advanced Search Suggests settings are divided into three groups: General and Wrapper Style Settings In this section are settings related to visual style of wrapper container, you can set border color, border width and background hover color. All color related settings use color picker tool for easier...
    March 2nd, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Advanced Search Suggests – Overview & Installation

    Overview and Installation This tutorial document describes the basic requirements of Magento Advanced Search Suggests extension and offers a step by step guide for installing and using the Magento Advanced Search Suggests extension on a Magento website. Requirements Magento Advanced Search Suggests extension is encoded via ionCube (http://www.ioncube.com/). In order to run the extension, you must have ionCube loader (http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php) installed on your web server. For more information about the ionCube loaders, please visit their website or contact your webmaster....
    March 1st, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Product File Attachments Tutorial – File ttachments on Product Details Page

    3. File Attachments on product details page On product details page, if there are uploaded documents, ‘Documents’ section will appear. It will contain all uploaded documents in order that is set in administration. Every document will be presented with label which is link to file and description that will give more info about document. If document access require from user to be loged than instead document link there will be link to login page. After successful login user will be...
    February 3rd, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Product File Attachments Tutorial – Handling Product Files Attachments

    2. Handling Product Files Attachments After successful installation of Magento Product Files Attachments extension go to “Catalog >> Manage Products” and click on the product that you wish to edit. In side menu you will notice new tab called ‘Documents’. To add documents related to a product, click Browse Files and select the desired documents, then click Upload Files. Extension support upload of multiple files at once, you can select all files that you wish to upload at once. Supported...
    February 2nd, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Product File Attachments Tutorial – Overview & Installation

    Overview and Installation This tutorial document describes the basic requirements of Magento Product Files Attachments extension and offers a step by step guide for installing and using the Magento Product Files Attachments extension on a Magento website. Requirements Magento Product Files Attachments extension is encoded via ionCube (http://www.ioncube.com/). In order to run the extension, you must have ionCube loader (http://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php) installed on your web server. For more information about the ionCube loaders, please visit their website or contact your webmaster....
    February 1st, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • How to Redeem a Promotional Code at Extensionsmall

    We occasionally shear promo codes on our Twitter and Facebook accounts, as addition to promo codes that are permanently active. Main purpose of promo code is to enable discount for our loyal customer or developers that frequently use our plugins on there projects. So in this article we would like to clarify how to apply promo code for ExtensionsMall products. Once you fill form and submit order, our store will redirect you to '2checkout' checkout page where you can review...
    January 28th, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Product File Attachments with groups and interagtion into tabs view

    Product File Attachments module allows you to easily manage various product documents. Administration section is quite simple but offer more than enough options to properly describe attached documents. One of things that was lacking was possibility to group documents and display them in such order on Product details page. There fore we added such feature, but wished to keep things simple so instead categories and another section we added one more filed where group ID will be written. All documents...
    January 20th, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.