Monthly Archives January 2010

Cleanly delete all categories in Magento

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Benjamin

If you have been working on a demo store – or yours is still in the early stages of construction, you will probably find it necessary to remove all the categories to start fresh at some point. Thanks to CasualCommerce, … Continue reading →

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Service Interrupted: 21st January 2010 14:53 > 15:28

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Benjamin

At 14:53 a thread locked on our main front-end node, this rendered all servers behind it inaccessible. After the system was deemed non-responsive, the system was immediately power cycled (restarted) – upon bringing the system back on line, as a … Continue reading →

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Fast bulk product status change with Magento

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Benjamin

If you have a large catalogue, using some standard features are simply impractical to use. Recently, we needed to disable an entire range of products based on its SKU – via the backend, bulk status changing 5000 products will take … Continue reading →

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Speed up Magento, product import, export and general via the database

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Benjamin

If your Magento product imports and exports certainly aren’t as speedy as they used to be, it could be that the database table is just filling up with old records. There are a few to look at. TRUNCATE dataflow_batch_export; TRUNCATE … Continue reading →

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Would you like some Twitter with your Google results sir?

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Benjamin

Whilst its not breaking news – its the beginning of results starting to affect our day to day running and blog-worthy! From the Google blog: “ Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very … Continue reading →

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