Wiz 0.9.3-beta: Better Admin User Creation, Cache Clearing & Indexing
It has been a while, but Wiz has not been forgotten! The latest update, 0.9.3-beta, brings the following new features and improvements: Indexing functions and information are now available. Caching now supports clearing and viewing invalidated caches. Caching now has more options to clear all of the various Magento caches. Errors setting up admin users […]
eBay Acquires Magento (Inside Information)
As you’ve heard by now, eBay will be closing on a 100% acquisition of Magento in the third quarter of 2011. This should not surprise anyone too much considering eBay took a substantial stake in Magento with a $20-something million investment in February with the string attached that Magento develops Magento Go to compete with […]
Add Custom Layout Handles (e.g. Parent Categories)
If you ever need custom layout handles in your local.xml, it’s fairly simple. In this example, the observer method will make a new handle for categories that have children or not, but you can just modify the method to make whatever handle you desire. (I realized after creating this there’s already a handler for anchored […]
Create a Priority Inbox in Mail (only show unread + flagged emails)
I have come up with a system of managing my emails in Mail (OS X only) that has helped me tremendously in managing the dozens of emails I receive each day. Before this system, I used to mark emails as unread that I needed to take action on. This became very unwieldy as I would […]
Wiz 0.9.0-beta: Specify Scope, Create EE Admin Users, and more…
The initial flow of love for Wiz was greatly appreciated! I’m not certain how many people actually have downloaded and are using Wiz today. We may never know fully… But the buzz that was generated was definitely invigorating! We have recently rolled Wiz out to our entire team here at Classy Llama. No doubt within […]
Blog Posts = Free Chocolate… Smart? Umm, yeah.
We at Classy Llama value public contributions from our team members. We have an open blog policy where anyone on the team can post on our blog about anything they believe is noteworthy and relevant. Over the past 3 years, we’ve averaged about one post per month. We noticed that our blog represents fully half […]
Good vs. Great
Since joining the team a little over a year ago I’ve learned some things about myself. One thing I realized early on is that I was allowing myself to settle for “good”. It’s easy to create “good” design, and it’s way too popular these days. I know this because I see “good” design all over […]
No More Square (White Background) Magento Product Images
Do you have a site with product images of varying proportions? It can be annoying when Magento gives you that white border to make your product image square. Here’s how customize what color that background is: just add backgroundcolor(‘000’, ‘000’, ‘000’)before the resize() method <code> <img src=”<?php echo $this->helper(‘catalog/image’)->init($this->getProduct(), ‘thumbnail’,<br/> $_image->getFile())->backgroundcolor(‘000’, ‘000’, ‘000’)->resize(100); ?>” … […]
Introducing Wiz, a CLI Tool for Magento
There is a lot of functionality in Magento that is hard to get to or tedious to work with. There are so many tasks that developers, designers, and administrators do on a daily basis that requires time-consuming trips to the Magento backend. If you happen to want to do more than one of those operations, […]
A Guide to Currency & Prices for Orders, Invoices, and Quotes
If you’ve ever looked at a var_dump() or var_export() of an order, quote, or invoice object, you might have noticed there are a long list of numbers that are present in that object. Here is a sample taken from an order object: ‘base_currency_code’ => ‘USD’ ‘store_currency_code’ => ‘USD’ ‘order_currency_code’ => ‘USD’ ‘global_currency_code’ => ‘USD’ ‘store_to_base_rate’ […]