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Do you need to put some content on the Home page of your Magento site, but not on others? Here’s how: Open the relevant .phtml template file which contains the code you want to show on the Home page. Then add the code below depending on which version of Magento you are using… In Magento version 1.4.x [...]

From January 2012, Invoices from Optimise will be sent to you via our new automated emailing program. If you would wish us to change the recipient email address we have on file for your company please let us know. Thanks

The standard rate of VAT in Ireland increases from 21% to 23% for all invoices raised on or after the 1st of January 2012. Note: For companies within the UK, this VAT change program does not need to be run. Please read the following information carefully and familiarise yourself with the options available to you. Please [...]

If you’ve built a menu and you want to style the link which corresponds to the page you are on, you can easily add a class to the link using jQuery and then style it using CSS. Billy, one of the developers here at Optimise Web, wrote this small, yet effective script to add a [...]

I spent quite a while trying to work out how to remove the Recurring Profile and Billing Agreements links from the Customer Account navigation menu in Magento. There are plenty of blog posts and Magento forum topics describing how to comment out or even delete the appropriate lines in the billing_agreement.xml or recurring_profile.xml files like [...]

As always, please backup your database and files before running raw SQL queries against your Magento database. I’ve tested this on a Magento CE 1.5.1.0 site today and it works. Source : http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/2960/P15/#t348791

It used to be the case that to move your Newsletter Subcribe form, or other Magento blocks, from their original position in your Magento template you would need to go and find the relevant lines in the layout XML files and modify them to show in a new postition. This however was a tedious process; [...]

We recently had a client who asked to have a link added to the magento admin order page so they could easily see what the product was. It requires a core hack so isn’t recommended. If you want to go ahead here’s the code: Open app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/sales/order/view/items/renderer/default.phtml at look and at ~ line 68 until you [...]

We recently updated a Magento install from 1.3.2.4 to 1.5.1.0. Everything worked fine, expect the search function. Whatever we searched for, the site returned just one result. This seems to be a problem with upgrades and even some fresh installs of Magneto 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5.1.0, etc. The following is the fix. This will require fixing [...]

Many users are not aware that there is documented help on-line for the Optimise System. To access it, choose Help – Search Help from the Optimise menu or go to http://oltd.co.uk/Help on your web browser. A Table of Contents is shown first. If you want to search by keyword, choose Keyword Index at the top [...]