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Magento – Improving Speed

December 10, 2009 sunny Leave a comment

Magento has very nice interface, but it seems to me very slow sometime. I wonder if it is because I am in Hong Kong and the server is in US. However, sometime it is really unacceptable slow to me.. so I was trying to figure out how to improve the speed of Magento. One way is to enable mysql query cache, but I find my server’s mysql already turn on the query cache, so it is not the cause. Then I find you can enable compressing data to send to your client, and it seems my Magento store is improved a lot. You may try what I have done to improve your Magento store. 🙂

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Magento Google Base Integration

December 9, 2009 sunny Leave a comment

Adding product to google merchant with magento google base integration:

Magento Screencast: Google Base Integration from Rico Neitzel on Vimeo.

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Magento – Change Order Status

December 8, 2009December 8, 2009 sunny Leave a comment

Yesterday we got an order from a customer and the order status was “pending_paypal”. It was ok until later we received the payment from the customer, and I found out there was no way to change the order status from “pending_paypal”. After googling for awhile, I find a solution by editing this file:
Magento\app\code\core\Mage\Sales\etc\config.xml. Although I recommend not to edit the original file, I will show you how to edit this file in order to change the order status. First find the code block <states></states>, and add the order status within <statuses> and <statuses/>. For example, I changed
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Magento – Paypal Standard Payment and IPN setting

December 8, 2009December 9, 2009 sunny Leave a comment

Today someone asked me a question: Someone ordered from the magento website using Paypal standard payment, but did not get IPN back. Why? Ok I have tested on the Paypal Sandbox Site, and it works very well. However, I did not really test on the real world situation. On the other hand, We forgot to turn on IPN on Paypal site. Opp!

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Magento – Multiple Tablerate (end)

November 20, 2009November 20, 2009 sunny Leave a comment

This is the last chapter for adding multiple tablerate to Magento system. Now we need to add to our admin panel, so we can edit it.

We need to add two new files (they are duplicated from the original tablerate module):
\app\code\core\Mage\Adminhtml\Model\System\Config\Backend\Shipping\Tablerate(n).php
\app\code\core\Mage\Adminhtml\Model\System\Config\Source\Shipping\Tablerate(n).php

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