Magento Tweaks

I recently had a client with an issue of Express International shipping for USPS not showing up on their Magento website checkout. It was only showing the Priority International Shipping.

To fix this error you need to remove all code of (EMS) from next to Express International in in app/code/core/Mage/Usa/etc/config.xml

Do a find or search for Express International or (EMS) in app/code/core/Mage/Usa/etc/config.xml

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If you are looking to add a custom tab to your Magento modern theme’s product page you can do so by doing the following.

1st. Download and open the file /app/design/frontend/default/modern/layout/catalog.xml

Search for <action method=”addTab” in your editor and you should find the original 2 or 3 there.

Just copy the code below and paste after the original 2 or 3 and change yourtabsname to whatever you want.

<action method=”addTab” translate=”title” module=”catalog”><alias>yourtabsname</alias><title>Your Tabs Title</title><block>catalog/product_view</block><template>catalog/product/view/yourtabsname.phtml</template></action>

2nd. You need to create the file yourtabsname.phtml but remember to replace yourtabsname with whatever you changed it to above. This yourtabsname.phtml page does not have to have any special code on it. It can have just text or an image url or code pulling product data. Whatever you want.

3rd. Upload yourtabsname.phtml to /app/design/frontend/default/modern/template/catalog/product/view

Remember if you want to customize a tab that’s already created you can edit it here /app/design/frontend/default/modern/template/catalog/product/view as well.

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I needed to sort the order of the products on a category page for a customer today in Magento and I wanted to post my solution.

Login to Magento admin and go to the Category where your products reside and click

Catalog > Manage Categories

Then click the category you want to edit on the left side. Once it loads click Category Products.

Now the last column on the right is called position. Just specify the order of your products here 1,2,3,4,5 etc.

Hope this helps.

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I had two issues with installing the Easy Lightbox extension with the Modern theme. So I will post my finding and the solution for you.

<strong>1.</strong> Use the Magento Connect and install the Easy Lightbox Extensions

<strong>2. </strong>The Extensions install puts the Lightbox files into only the default folder not modern or your them folder. So we need to first copy all the lightbox files from the default folder to the modern theme or your theme .

COPY ALL THESE FOLDERS AND FILES……

skin/frontend/default/default/css/easylightbox.css
skin/frontend/default/default/js/lightbox.js
skin/frontend/default/default/images/lightbox/
app/design/frontend/default/default/layout/easylightbox.xml
app/design/frontend/default/default/template/easylightbox

now upload all those folder and files to your Theme or in my case the Modern theme.

skin/frontend/default/modern/css/easylightbox.css
skin/frontend/default/modern/js/lightbox.js
skin/frontend/default/modern/images/lightbox/
app/design/frontend/default/modern/layout/easylightbox.xml
app/design/frontend/default/modern/template/easylightbox

<strong>3. </strong>I was using 1.3.2.4 of Magento and the Lightbox wouldn’t show in the admin backend configuration so I had to do the following.

Go to /app/code/community/TM/EasyLightbox/etc and download the two files adminhtml.xml and config.xml

Open adminhtml.xml and replace <config>  with <adminhtml>  at the top and replace </config> with </adminhtml> at the bottom.

then…..

Open config.xml and paste this

<adminhtml>
<acl>
<resources>
<admin>
<children>
<system>
<children>
<config>
<children>
<easy_lightbox translate=”title” module=”easylightbox”>
<title>Easy Lightbox Section</title>
<sort_order>55</sort_order>
</easy_lightbox>
</children>
</config>
</children>
</system>
</children>
</admin>
</resources>
</acl>
</adminhtml>

right after </frontend> before the closing </config>

make sure to re upload the files you edited!

THAT’S IT……………………………………………………………..

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I found a few different posts online for changing the default # of products showing on your grid/list layouts. This solution below was the easiest and fastest solution for me.

You need to edit two parts of app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/etc/config.xml

grid-list 9,15,30

5,10,15,20,25 9

10 0
position

I changed this to.

grid-list 12,16,24

5,10,15,20,25 12

10 0
position

and…..

9,15,30

5,10,15,20,25

I changed this to.

12,16,24

5,10,15,20,25

That will let you change the options from the default 9,15,30 to your own settings. In my case, 12,16,24.

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