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Magento Tutorial – Get Products To Show On Home Page

stevewar — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:42:39 +0000

Finally, the exact steps you need to follow to get products showing up on your home page in Magento.

Picture Tutorial

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Advanced Tutorial

This tutorial really needs pictures to be easily understood, so there is no advanced tutorial.

Magento Development – Disabling System Cache

stevewar — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:03:20 +0000

While developing your store, you’re going to want to be able to see the changes you make each time you load the page. Unfortunately, for development purposes, the default cache settings can cause old elements to remain on your pages. The solution is to disable the cache anytime you are doing site development. Here’s the tutorial

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See the picture tutorial

Advanced User Tutorial

Step1: Select System->Cache Management from the Magento Administration Panel

Step 2: Select Disable from the All Cache Drop Down List

Step 3: Save changes

Magento Tutorial – Turning On Template Path Hints

stevewar — Mon, 26 May 2008 07:10:53 +0000

One of the most frustrating challenges I had learning to develop for Magneto was trying to figure out where the heck the blocks were defined and where they are referenced.

This tutorial shows you how to turn on template path hints which will show you exactly where the blocks live. From there you can search for files referencing these blocks and edit, move, enabled, and disable all of the blocks (which will be in my next tutorial).

Watch This Tutorial in High Definition

Or follow the instructions below (click here for picture tutorial):

1. 1. Open the admin control panel
  2. Open the system tab and select configuration
  3. Select Developer on the left sidebar
  4. Select Main Website From the Current Configuration Scope Drop Down
  5. Open the debug drop down
  6. Set Template Path Hints To Yes