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Jun 19 2017
Disabling redirect to checkout in Magento after adding a product
Here’s another Magento guide for quite a common query: how to disable the redirect to the checkout after adding a product to the cart in Magento. Whilst this is a handy feature – enabled by default – for stores where customers aren’t likely to browse, it can be frustrating for customers who want to continue… Read more »
Our Magento blog covers topics including Magento Community, Enterprise, Magento 2, conversion rate optimisation, ecommerce trends and more.
Mar 11 2017
Adding a Google Font to your Magento theme using local.xml layout file
A fairly common task for building custom Magento themes these days is to use a web font. Whilst there are plenty of services which offer hosted web fonts for use on Magento and other website platforms, Google Fonts has a reasonable library of fonts available for us on the web. This guide will show you… Read more »
Our Magento blog covers topics including Magento Community, Enterprise, Magento 2, conversion rate optimisation, ecommerce trends and more.
Dec 7 2016
An overview of Magento 1.x security patches
Magento is a great ecommerce platform, and like any open source platform, it requires a degree of maintenance to keep it running smoothly and securely. Magento themselves publish a list of the patches on their website; this article explores what a Magento security patch is, and a brief overview of what issue each patch resolves…. Read more »
Our Magento blog covers topics including Magento Community, Enterprise, Magento 2, conversion rate optimisation, ecommerce trends and more.
Sep 26 2016
Best practice tips for Magento theme development
seasoned Magento consultants, one of the things we see often is poorly implemented Magento themes. After running a Magento training course for web developers recently, a discussion with them lead to creating a list of best practices for Magento 1.x theme development. So, here are a list of tips for newcomers to Magento and Magento… Read more »
This is a guide to implementing the necessary markup to tell Google about your own Magento store’s search engine, which can then be used in some listings when users are searching for terms related to your website. Keep reading to learn how to show your Magento website’s search engine in the Google Search Engine Results… Read more »
Our Magento blog covers topics including Magento Community, Enterprise, Magento 2, conversion rate optimisation, ecommerce trends and more.
Mar 31 2016
How to remove .html from your Magento store’s category URLs
Magento is a great ecommerce platform for search engines out of the box, but there are a few changes we make for most clients launching their stores on Magento Community or Magento Enterprise Editions for search engines. One of these is quite a small change, but helps your store URLs look a lot neater (as… Read more »
Our Magento blog covers topics including Magento Community, Enterprise, Magento 2, conversion rate optimisation, ecommerce trends and more.
Feb 20 2016
Disabling checkout with multiple addresses in Magento
As you will no doubt know, Magento is a well built and feature-rich ecommerce platform, but there are some default settings in Magento which we frequently seem to need to alter for our ecommerce clients. One of these is disabling checkout with multiple addresses By default, Magento Community and Magento Enterprise versions allow customers to… Read more »
Our Magento blog covers topics including Magento Community, Enterprise, Magento 2, conversion rate optimisation, ecommerce trends and more.
Jan 19 2016
What’s new in Magento 2
December 2015 saw the release of Magento 2 for store owners and merchants. As experienced Magento consultants, Richard Carter Consultancy share our insight and thoughts on what’s new in Magento 2. Magento was started in 2007, and has become one of the leading ecommerce platforms in the world. Whilst it may have a steep learning… Read more »
Our Magento blog covers topics including Magento Community, Enterprise, Magento 2, conversion rate optimisation, ecommerce trends and more.
Oct 15 2015
Adding Apple (iPhone/iPad) touch icons to Magento 1.9 using local.xml layout XML
We’ve seen a lot of hacky-feeling ways to adding Apple touch icon paths to theof your Magento store, so here is a cleaner way to add Apple Touch icons to your Magento theme’selement. 1. Open your Magento theme’s local.xml Open your theme’s local.xml layout file, located in the app/design/frontend/[package]/[theme]/layout, where [package] and [theme] are relevant to… Read more »
Our Magento blog covers topics including Magento Community, Enterprise, Magento 2, conversion rate optimisation, ecommerce trends and more.
Sep 2 2015
Removing the Raleway Google Font from your Magento 1.9 rwd child theme
Magento Community 1.9 introduced a new theming system aimed at creating a better base theme for responsive websites. At a basic level, the Magento rwd theme provides a great base layer to start customising to your brand’s colours and imagery. A very common query we receive from other web designers and developers working with Magento is… Read more »