Magento How To

Being able to deep link from a blog or external website and put a product directly into your Magento stores shopping cart could come in useful. This is a brief tutorial on how to do this for simple products.

A list of extensions that have been released on Magento Connect in the last 7 days. Take a look, there might be one that makes a difference to your store.

The London 2012 Olympics are over. What a great event it was and Team GB put in a fantastic performance which made a nation very proud. There are a lot of comparisons with training for an Olympic games and running a Magento store. We look at 7 Things we can learn to make your Magento store a gold medal contender!

Dramatically reduce the number of spam and bogus signups you get on your Magento store. This video will show you how to use Magento's new captcha facility which was released with 1.7 of community and 1.12 of enterprise.

The latest release of Magento (1.7 community edition) came with a new facility to auto generate coupon codes. This video shows you, as a merchant, how easy it is to set up these coupons on your Magento store.

As you manage and run your Magento store you will come across problems that may baffle you. You update a product and the change is not reflected on the front end. You move a widget but nothing appears to happen.

Many Magento 'problems' can be solved simply by refreshing the cache on your Magento store

Before you call web support or your developer try refreshing the Magento cache.

Watch this two minute video which will explain how to refresh the Magento cache on your Magento store.

Promotions in order emails and signup emails can help to generate and increase sales on your Magento store. This article looks at how you can incorporate these easily using the tools available in your Magento store giving you a new promotional channel while also making life easier when it comes to managing this.

Measuring the number of product searches on your Magento store is an important part of optimising and analysing success. Problem is that these figures in the report can be outlandishly high. This article looks at what causes this and how it can be prevented.

Need to optimise your magento store for search engines? Take a look at our 7 tips for making sure your store is as search friendly as possible.

Marks and Spencer has recently launched its outlet store on-line so bargain hunters can go directly to the sale rail - how can you get in on the action?