Here is a little utility function I have used to get around the fact that there is no wordpress function for getting a thumbnail image for a specific size, even when you have correctly generated the thumbnail at that size using the add_image_size function.
A quick explanation on how to add a CMS content block into the Magento footer area using layout xml in the defut page layout.
Building websites that can be quickly and easily updated is vitally important but with so many content management systems available how do you make the decision as to which one to use. Here are a few approaches you may not have come accross.
I recently found that having worked out how to place a cateogry of products on the homepage of my Magento site I wanted to specify the order that those products were listed in. Mainly this was because I was hiding the standard Magento toolbars, so the customer could not do this themselves. The first place I started looking was the system configuration menu
Tutorial explaining how to add your own template to your Magento site for you to use in CMS pages and including blocks for content and Magento widgets to go.
No matter how many Magento websites I build I never seem to be able to remember the following code snippet to add products onto the homepage or CMS page. I thought I would post, simply so I know where I can quickly find the information – I hope others find it useful as well.
This was a really quick HTML website that needed some integration with third-party systems to allow the site owner (a freelance designer I work with occasionally) to be able to make changes to the site and accept feedback. The main site itself was all put together using HTML and CSS and after sharing the FTP [...]