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How to change the number of columns in Magento catalog grid 31 Jan 2013 | 02:45 pm
The default Magento catalog grid is set to display 3 products per column. Most users alter the number of columns by modifying the file catalog/product/list.phtml. There’s actually a much cleaner appro...
How to fix WordPress permalinks on Mac OS X’s localhost 29 Aug 2012 | 11:27 am
I recently installed a WordPress blog in my localhost using Mac OS X’s built in Apache and PHP with MySQL to test a functionality when I decided to update the permalinks to use a different format othe...
How to fix the “Illegal scheme supplied, only alphanumeric characters are permitted” Magento error on Localhost using HTTP (fresh install) 1 Nov 2011 | 08:56 am
I want to setup a development environment for the Mage Enabler for WordPress plugin in my new desktop so I downloaded the latest copy of Magento Community Edition which is version 1.6.1.0 at the time ...
Auto-select all <option> items from multiple select dropdown using jQuery 12 Apr 2011 | 04:00 am
I’ve been working for the past few days with jQuery and one of the task was to manipulate HTML forms before submitting it for processing. What I needed to do is to process a form having multiple submi...
How to create a new Magento customer account from an external site? 22 Feb 2011 | 05:00 am
I’ve been receiving a lot of inquiries on how to create a new customer record on the fly using Mage.php or using the plugin Mage Enabler for WordPress. So, to save you time and also to provide a threa...
Separating message and author in ‘Stray Random Quotes’ WordPress plugin 30 Jan 2011 | 09:05 am
I needed a plugin that can show random quotes with author options as well and I found Stray Random Quotes WordPress plugin could do the trick. The only problem is, the function to display the random q...
My Silly Point of View won Best Technology Blog at 2010 Philippine Blog Awards 13 Dec 2010 | 04:08 pm
I was so nervous that night that I decided not to cite this long acceptance speech so I posted it here instead. Here it goes: Thank you for the recognition and also for allowing me to be a part of th...
My Silly Point of View is nominated for Best Technology Blog! 22 Nov 2010 | 09:04 pm
The event will be held on 12th of December 2010 at Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza. Hopefully, I’ll be able to win the award but nevertheless, the ultimate goal is to be with the best Filipino...
How to pull the list of customers from Magento to an external site? 7 Sep 2010 | 09:09 pm
If you’re thinking of creating a page that will display your customer list from Magento to a different PHP-based application, you can use the script below to do so. First, let’s create a file called ...
How to add Magento blocks, CSS and Javascript to an external site 3 Jul 2010 | 04:01 am
You might have a Magento based website running online and wanted to extend parts of it (also known as blocks, which may include some css and js in the code) to an external site which may either be a b...
