Magento My Imeta Bug fix on category save
A customer recently came to us stating their categories were not saving correctly, it turned out to be a bit of erroneous code in a 3rd party extension they were using. If you are using My_Imeta and are experiencing difficulties saving your categories, it will be due to this. It is a quick an easy … Continue reading
Magento category children count fix
The children_count field in Magento can sometimes become inaccurate if you have created a category via the PHP API and set an entity_id whilst doing so. It is due to part of the after_save mechanism which overrides the children_count parameter (even if explicitly set via $_category->setChildrenCount()). For the majority of the admin area, an inaccurate … Continue reading
Reduced opening hours due to Manchester riots
Unfortunately, due to the recent criminal activity in Manchester we regret to announce we are closing earlier than usual, to ensure the safety of staff members returning home. Due to the unpredictable nature of these events, we cannot confirm opening hours at this point. We aim to be open between 10am and 4pm every day … Continue reading
Benchmarking your Magento store
We get asked this quite a lot by normal store owners who want to see how good their host really is. However, our Magento Benchmark service is only really aimed at web hosts themselves. So to answer a popular question (albeit briefly): There isn’t a standardised test – as there is a myriad of different … Continue reading
Quickly associate images to your Magento products without using dataflow
Dataflow is great and does allow the association of multiple images natively, but upon wanting to add around 2,500 product images to a catalogue in Magento 1.5.0.1 - we noticed that they have broke the core support in dataflow for this,great! So instead, we just knocked up a quick script which would associate images to … Continue reading
A new look for 2011 and a look back at Sonassi.com
You might have noticed our site has changed a bit from our pastel green to a sky blue, we're still the same company and still dedicate ourselves to Magento, but time demanded a new look. We've had a few different revisions of sonassi.com throughout the years, aiming to keep our brand fresh - usually with … Continue reading
Happy new year 2011
Happy new year everyone! We are now back open for 2011 and currently working through a back-load of emails and requests that came in during the Christmas period, so if you are waiting on a reply, it shouldn't be too long now!
Christmas opening hours
So, its that time of year again and time for us to close the office over the holiday season! It has been a great 2010 and we thank ALL of our customers for making it what it was! Christmas opening hours We will be closed between 24th December 2010 until 5th January 2011. Do you … Continue reading
Automatically change the VAT rate on 4th January
Unless you are lucky enough to have a development agency that is willing to make changes to your store just after New Years Day, you might benefit from running this little script. With the proposed change to 20% on January 4th 2011, you can automate the rate change in your Magento installation. You'll need to … Continue reading
Controlling the cache size when using database as a backend Magento
If you have been using the database as a cache storage mechanism (Eg. <slow_backend>) and you have a large number of SKUs, you will start to see a database that increases in size by quite a measure. A customer of ours with around 160k SKUs, had a "core_cache" table that had grown to just under … Continue reading