If you have 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable Error message in your browser and can’t access site, Go to your Magento root installation, find a maintenance.flag file and delete it. Sometimes Magento just won’t come out of maintenance mode. If this doesn’t help, delete your cache and sessions and try again.
CMS blocks disappeared after 1.9.2.2 update?
Magento CE 1.9.2.2 includes all the changes from the recent-patch SUPEE-6788. It restricts the blocks that can be used in CMS blocks, pages, emails, etc by default.
You can whitelist additional blocks through the admin.
- System > Permissions > Blocks
- Add New Block
- Block Name: cms/block
- Is Allowed : Yes
Magento Delete All ‘Url Rewrite Management’ URLs in the Database
To delete all the URL rewrites from the Magento admin backend, you can do the following:
- Using your favourite database browser, connect to your Magento database
- Go to the table named ‘core_url_rewrite’
- Empty this table
- Log back in to the Magento backend and reindex all
This action will clear out all manually and the system created rewrites and recreate only the needed ones.
Magento site not working in Responsinator?
To fix this go to Magento backend >System > Configuration > Admin > Security
Need to change setting in Allow Magento Frontend to run in frame “Only from the same domain” to Enable
Magento Community Edition 1.9.2 is Now Available
The latest stable release of the Magento Community Edition 1.9.2 is now ready to download. This will be a great opportunity to built a more secure site with the best quality.
Features of Magento CE 1.9.2
Updates technology and improves quality
Latest versions of the Zend 1 Framework and Redis integration comes with the new release. Over 105 quality improvements will be provided throughout the product.
Automated functional testing framework
The new release will provide almost 170 automated functional tests for merchants with in house development teams. This will help to maximise the quality. At the time of marketing, it is easier to do basic acceptance testing when adding extensions, making customizations, or upgrading.
Get static block in CMS and Phtml
Get static block in CMS and Static Blocks
{{block type="cms/block" block_id="my-block-id"}}
Get static block in Phtml file
echo $this->getLayout()->createBlock('cms/block')->setBlockId('my-block-id')->toHtml();
‘my-block-id’ is block identifier
Get Base Url , Skin Url , Media Url , Js Url , Store Url and Current Url
Get Url in CMS and Static Blocks
To get SKIN URL
{{skin url='images/testimage.jpg '}}
To get Media URL
{{media url='/testimage.jpg'}}
Marketz – Useful free marketplace magento extension
Using Marketz multi-Vendor magento extension, magento store owners are able to transform their existing store to a fantastic marketplace. Every website owner can now sell his/her products and allow others to sell their products too. Also, with this plug-in, the owners can easily earn additional revenue by setting up commission fee for every purchase of vendor products.
Migrate your Magento Go store at free cost till January 31, 2015
Bitnami Magento Development
SSH Connection using Putty:
Windows does not come with a bundled SSH client by default. It is recommended that you use the freely available Putty utility, which can be downloaded from:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
You will need to get your SSH key in PPK format