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Magento Catalog Page Load Optimization
Magento Site Issue: Our client had complained of slow site speed for a few months. The long load times were significant enough to warrant concern that valuable sales were being lost. It was clear the issue lie in lengthy queries to the database, specifically when...
Facebook Posting from a client: Lifesavers! You guys absolutely ROCK.
FYI, this is a little bit of Facebook praise for the Customer Paradigm team and our ability to solve Magento programming problems quickly:
Magento Custom Reporting Saves Time, Money for Clients
Mini-Case Study: Magento Custom Reporting At Customer Paradigm, our interests don’t stop at our customers’ satisfaction—they carry over to our customers’ customers, and their customers, too. Mark Laufhutte of Solutions313 came to Customer Paradigm a couple of months...
Magento Programming: Adding a "Home" link to the top menu (Magento Way)
So, in this article I'll give you a handy script to add a home link to the top menu. In magento 1.7, the menu is now created via an *event* (page_block_html_topmenu_gethtml_before) The catalog observer hooks into this and adds menu items as Varien_Data_Tree_Node...
USPS Shipping Quotes Patch for ALL Magento Sites – Community and Enterprise
A quick note: If you're having trouble with USPS shipping quotes on your Magento site, there's a reason why: The United States Postal Service just changed their system (effective today), and it changes the way that USPS works with Magento. Beyond the API changes, they...
Impact of Holiday eCommerce Shopping – MAGENTO
Is Your Website Ready For Sales? I'm not talking about any sales, I'm talking about holiday sales. Shoppers that are price-sensitive, impatient and quick to click to your nearest competition to get their holiday shopping done. The holiday season is upon us and...
Easy Fix for Chrome Magento Admin Login
If you are having issues logging into your Magento admin panel while using the Chrome browser then this is the PERFECT solution for you. I have read through many solutions and have found people recommending very long fixes. One blog said that I needed to downgrade my...
Social Media Value of Profitable Customers on Magento
If you keep hearing that your website needs social media plugins, then the next question is, "which ones?" With so many social media channels it is difficult to know if you need to be on all of them or just the big ones? And, most importantly what does this plugin...
Magento Bug with Versions 1.5 and Above – SOAP Shipments API
We've recently discovered a bug with magneto version > 1.5.0.0. Magento's native SOAP api exposes most of the core entity types (customers, orders, shipments, products, categories, etc). However, it looks like the Api code wasn't updated to ensure compatibility...
Magento Retailers Represent With Google Trusted Store Badge
Get the Google Trusted Store Badge Magento is now a proudly offering the Google Trusted Store Badge. With Google's great reputation of advancing the internet, there is a trust associated with their brand. As they continue to increase users experience with every click...