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Magento bugs and fixesFebruary 12, 2014By The Team

Magento ads VAT twice at the checkout

So you set your Magento shop to have vat as a tax class and you’ve entered all your products into the back end using the vat inclusive price. So far so good. But when you add a product to the basket and then checkout your including vat price suddenly has vat added on again. The...

GoogleNovember 8, 2013By The Team

What came first? Google or SEO

What came first? Google or SEO Answer Yahoo & Bing! In an Global industry worth billions of $’s every year, Google have finally turned on the hand that fed them for so long. Recently Google removed the keyword data that was displayed in Google analytics and announced that...

Magento SecuritySpeed up MagentoOctober 23, 2013By The Team

Block unwanted crawlers wasting your resources

Block unwanted crawlers wasting your resources Looking at your server logs can show you a huge amount of traffic that is just eating away your server response. To tighten it up here are two helpful snippets of code that will stop them dead in there tracks....

Magento bugs and fixesMagento ExtensionsJuly 26, 2013By The Team

Nice layout for easytabs related products tab for Magento

As you may know the easytabs extension for Magento is nice but the layout on the related products tab is awful by default. Here is a nicer layout for you achieved by changing the code in app/design/frontend/your template/default/template/easytabs/catalogproductrelated.phtml you can...

Magento designMagento ExtensionsJuly 6, 2013By The Team

Add a finance application form to magento checkout.

Finance application form for Magento If like many online retailers you may want to offer finance at the checkout you may be worried that Magento doesn’t let you do this. That’s why we created Finance Application form for Magento. It allows your customers to apply for finance as a...

HostingJune 19, 2013By The Team

Fix for broken slider in Ambitious WordPress theme

If you are running the Ambitious wordpress theme by Olegnax and your slider is broken. You’re not on your own. Here’s a very short video showing you how to fix it.To fix it remove the ambitious twitter widget from the widget menu and the problem goes away. There is no...

Magento SecurityJune 18, 2013By The Team

Block entire countries like India, China and Russia using htaccess file

I was getting really fed up with hackers and Indian SEO companies crawling my site so i found this to stop three countries being able to see the site. You can quickly build a list of countries and give your server a break. All you do is add the code to your .HTaccess file and...

HostingMagento bugs and fixesMagento SecurityMay 29, 2013By The Team

Problems with spam posts in phpBB3, wordpress or any site using .htaccess.

Recently we were plagued by Bots from China creating posts in a phpbb3 board and several wordpress websites. After spending time researching how to block them we discovered this little gem. If your website uses a .htaccess file in the root then add the following code to it to ban...

Magento ExtensionsMay 13, 2013By The Team

Problems getting video to show up using EasyTabs extension

If you’re having trouble getting video’s from YouTube to show up in EasyTabs in Magento Then here is your fix. Copy the iframe embed code from your YouTube video you want to use. Paste it into your video attribute. Now all you have to do is add a full stop after the code....

Magento bugs and fixesMarch 25, 2013By The Team

PayPal gateway has rejected request. This transaction cannot be processed due to an invalid merchant configuration (#10501: Invalid Configuration).

If you’re seeing this error message on PayPal with magento, the chances are that you haven’t got the right type of PayPal account. You will need website payments pro which in the UK attracts a £20 per month user subscription fee. To resolve the error log in to PayPal and...