Recently we released our latest Advanced Search 2 Magento Extension and we already have some great analytics to share with you from one of our favorite websites. Overall the preliminary results show some real gains in how users use the search on a Magento site and we can only conclude they are happier as a result.
Read moreThe Advanced Search Magento Extension by Activo is a must have improvement over the default magento search results. It provides an advanced search functionality for your entire store product catalog without the necessity to install additional 3rd party systems like Solr or Sphinx. It also offer the sensible autocomplete feature within the search box.
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Assuming normal traffic patterns, a Magento website will most likely receive only 40%-50% of its traffic directly to the Homepage. The rest of the traffic goes to the Category pages, CMS pages, and mostly your product pages. This means that product pages are highly important for most eCommerce websites. Here are 7 useful tips to help provide effective product pages and improve usability & SEO
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Magento Compilatioin and new extensions installation do not mix together. Before you can enjoy that new extension that you just installed you must be aware of Magento Compilation.
Read moreActivo Bulk Images Upload and SEO extension provides a fast and efficient way to mass upload product images for large size catalogs with one mouse click. It is extremely easy to use, allows uploading multiple images per product SKU, works great with CDNs, and now has image SEO features.
Read moreEasily prevent users from using PO Box for shipping/and or billing addresses at checkout with customizable error messages.
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From my experiences, you (the developer) will need to do the last tweaking of the InnoDB config parameters. I’m including the parameters that I constantly apply to my clients and make big difference when it comes to DB performance for Magento.
Read moreThis video shows how to use our most recent extension, Bulk Images Magento Extension, now available on our Magento Extensions store. The extension allows easy product images management for large catalogs. Essentially even with say a few hundreds SKUs and 3-5 images per SKU you end up with 500 to 1,500 image files for your online store. Uploading every single one of them manually takes too much time and is absolutely not necessary. With this extension you control how you want the products associated, what is the order of the images within the specific product image gallery, and the extension can help you manage small changes as well as large changes to the entire store. The extension also is CDN ready and can support almost any front end caching mechanisms that your store may be using. Enjoy!
Read moreHey all Magento administrators or developers out there, just a short tip here on how to avoid locking tables when you perform a full mysqldump on a live server. This does not apply for any shared hosting, but only the more advanced dedicated hosting (VPS/cloud or not). When you perform a mysqldump on a live environment, the default behaviour is to lock the entire set of tables until the dump is complete, even if it takes 1 minute or less, it means that during that minute, users will not be able to checkout, or admins may not be able to perform any transactions in the back end.
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I’m excited to announce a new division of Activo was recently born: Magento Extensions. This new division will focus on the various magento extensions which we have working on in the past 3 years. Essentially, every single piece of code that we have developed or delivered to our clients was written properly by extending Magento via their extensions mechanism. Some (not all) of these functionalists were developed further to easily integrate with other websites and hence allow a wide variety of online merchants to enjoy these advanced features.
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