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SEO is Dead

SEO is Dead...

In 2001 SEO was pretty easy and you could get good listings by just changing the title tags of a page and repeat your keywords as often as possible throughout the page. There were ‘off page factors’ like inbound links but it was simple to get these,...
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September 28th, 2011
Posted by askmatt

Magento 1.42 – Change Check to Cheque

Magento 1.42 –...

If you are unable to change the words “send check to” to “send cheque to”, and none of the threads below help then you need to edit the words in /app/code/core/Mage/Payment/etc/system.xml. The word “check” appears around lines...
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June 29th, 2011
Posted by askmatt

Excel rename images and prepend directory name

Excel rename images ...

Excel function to modify image filenames, it converts to all lower case, replaces spaces with hyphens and prepends a directory name to the string. “brands” is the directory that is added. “G2″ contains the original filename. =CONCATENATE("brands/",LOWER(SUBSTITUTE(G2,"...
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May 10th, 2011
Posted by askmatt

Magento update stock levels after AFM delivery

Magento update stock...

<?php $dir = "/home/afm/incoming/deliveries"; $pattern = "*.CSV"; if (is_dir($dir)) { if ($dh = opendir($dir)) { // iterate over file list while (($filename = readdir($dh)) !== false) { if (fnmatch($pattern, $filename)) { $file= $dir . "/" . $filename; $row...
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May 10th, 2011
Posted by askmatt

Sage Product Import File Format

Sage Product Import ...

Stock Code : Mandatory A code of up to thirty alphanumeric characters to uniquely identify the product. Description : Optional The product name or description.  Use up to sixty characters. Tax Code : Optional The VAT rate to be applied by default when you raise...
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May 3rd, 2011
Posted by askmatt

Magento -Hide attributes with the value ‘No’ on product pages

Magento -Hide attrib...

Replace app/design/frontend/base/default/template/catalog/product/view/attributes.html with this file: &lt; ?php $_helper = $this-&gt;helper('catalog/output'); $_product = $this-&gt;getProduct() ?&gt; &lt; ?php if($_additional = $this-&gt;getAdditionalData()):...
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March 8th, 2011
Posted by askmatt

Magento 1.42 change next customer_id

Magento 1.42 change ...

ALTER TABLE customer_entity AUTO_INCREMENT=1000;
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January 25th, 2011
Posted by askmatt

France Telecom / Orange blocking port 25 email send – fix

France Telecom / Ora...

The solution is here http://www.bergek.com/2007/11/29/making-postfix-listen-to-a-secondary-port/ You may need to install iptables: apt-get install iptables iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 587 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 25 iptables-save Send email
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November 5th, 2010
Posted by askmatt

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