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  • E-Mall Facebook Extension – Admin Options

    In the Facebook settings options box you can select the following options:   Enable Facebook: This option, if set Yes, will display facebook feed block on front page.   Facebook Page link: This option determines link of facebook page you want to show.   Facebook Container Side: This option determines side where facebook feed block will be positioned, please see frontend screenshot.   Facebook Container Top Position: This option sets facebook container offset from top of the screen.   Facebook...
    January 2nd, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • E-Mall Facebook Extension – Overview and Installation

    Overview and installation This tutorial document describes how to install and use Extensions Mall Facebook plugin for Magento. It can be used as a step by step guide to installing and configuring the Facebook Extension and as a general guide of the extension and its features. The installation process consists of extracting the extension files on your local computer or server, and copying ( uploading ) the files on your Magento system. In most cases, once you purchase the extension, we...
    January 1st, 2014 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Happy New Year 2014

    We wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Have great time and see you in 2014!
    December 27th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Color Swatch on Catalog page

    Color Swatch for Magento extension was original built for Product details page, overtime many of our clients wished to show swatches on catalog page as well. Instead to create standalone extension we decided to extend Color Swatch and allow our clients easily to upgrade there basic package with this feature. Key features of 'Product List Color Swatch' plugin are: - ability to display swatches of first product attribute (following defined order or attributes) - swatches can be displayed on product...
    December 19th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Color Swatch Import Tool

    Extensionsmall always aimed to provide exceptional technical support for all our customers. Beside technical issues and compatibility requests, we received lot of requests to provide tool that will allow customers to easily upload larger number of swatch images without use of Magento administration. During work on importer plugin we had in mind to provide simple plugin that will be independent from Magento version or any other setting. Plugin is built to work with database directly and use only 'Color Swatch'...
    December 10th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • E-Mall Twitter Tutorial – Template Customization

    Template file is located in (alter path to match your theme): App/design/frontend/’package folder’/’package theme’/templates/smdtwitter/ Template contains these sections: First section contains php code that loads extension settings that are assigned in administration. Second section contains style code, there you can additionally style design of extension. Third section contains java script code that takes care of toggle animation and remembers position of extension block. Fourth section contains HTML code and twitter script that loads feed from twitter site.   All sections...
    December 3rd, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • E-Mall Twitter Tutorial – Admin Options

    In the Twitter settings options box you can select the following options: Enable Twitter: This option, if set Yes, will display twitter feed block on front page. Twitter Username: This option determines username of account you want to be shown at frontend. Twitter Widget ID: This option determines ID number of twitter widget that you created (see section 1.) Number of Twitter Feeds: This option determines number of last posted twits that will be loaded. Default value is “unlimited”. Twitter...
    December 2nd, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • E-Mall Twitter Tutorial – Overview & Installation

    Overview and installation This tutorial document describes how to install and use Extensions Mall Twitter Feed plugin for Magento. It can be used as a step by step guide to installing and configuring the Twitter Feed Extension and as a general guide of the extension and its features. The installation process consists of extracting the extension files on your local computer or server, and copying (uploading) the files on your Magento system. In most cases, once you purchase the extension,...
    December 1st, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • ExtensionsMall – ready for Magento CE 1.8

    In last few weeks we got numerous mails about compatibility of our plugins with latest version of Magento 1.8. Our initial tests on on pre-release version of Magento 1.8 confirmed that our extensions are fully compatible. We preformed all tests once more wit official version and results were same. Our team preformed tests on clean Magento installation, version CE 1.8 installed with sample data and than ExtensionsMall added one by one. After that we considered another important situation, tests are...
    November 11th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.
  • Magento or WordPress – Why not both?

    We have had a lot of our Clients mentioning that they do love the Magento functionality, look and feel and are very very happy with their choice of e-commerce platform for their web store, but they also want to have their blog up and running too. Tough there are quite a few Magento Add ons that will do the trick, we all know what’s been powering the web blogs for all these years… Yes, you are right, Wordpress is behind...
    November 5th, 2013 by ExtensionsMall.