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Latest version of SMTP Pro Finally Uploaded to Magento Connect

Ashley — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:34:01 +0000

Geez it’s been a long time coming thanks to Invalid package.xml format errors and duplicate maintainers and goodness-knows-what else. You can finally get the latest version of SMTP Pro – 1.3.4 – even though it’s identical to 1.3. (thank Magento Connect…). If you read my last post on the improvements, you’ll know that it has some [...] Related posts:

Easily Set a Custom Order Number in Magento With My Free SetStartOrderNumber Extension

Ashley — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:34:00 +0000

Every time I launch a new Magento store I have to go and hack the database to change the order, shipment, invoice and credit memo numbers. This just doesn’t seem right, and seeing as I was about to launch two stores (in one week!) I thought it’d be better to make the order increment ID’s [...] Related posts:

Why are my Magento products not showing up?!

Ashley — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:00:40 +0000

This is a just a quickie – got caught out with a weird issue yesterday where the Magento products in a particular category just disappeared – they still existed if you navigated directly to their URL, but they would not show in their categories (though the Manage Categories screen in the Magento admin still showed [...] Related posts:

Structuring your Magento project for Engineering, not Hacking

Ashley — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:06:55 +0000

This is a blog post about how I structure my Magento store development, and how that has been made easier thanks to the efforts of Colin Mollenhour and his script modman. Hopefully after reading this, you’re all inspired to go set up a similar project structure, because it gives a repeatable, hopefully less upgrade ruined [...] Related posts:

Wordpress: Blank page after posting comments and Akismet

Ashley — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:58:26 +0000

Just a real real quickie related to Wordpress here, not Magento. If you find adding comments in wordpress causes a blank page – try disabling akismet. If that fixes it, it probably means the domain you were using to test with in the comments field has been marked as spam by Akismet. Wordpress serves up [...] Related posts:

Toshcomputers: (mis)Adventures in Buying a new iMac

Ashley — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:25:56 +0000

I know this isn’t strictly Magento development related, so I’ll apologize in advance to those of you uninterested in this post, I’ll keep it brief, promise. I just wanted to tell a little story about an ill-fated ecommerce transaction with Tosh Computers, so hopefully I can save others a great deal of hassle if they [...] No related posts.

New SMTP Pro Magento Email extension released

Ashley — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:00:30 +0000

I’ve had a chance to make a couple of improvements to my SMTP Pro email extension for Magento. Both changes are not exactly life altering, one adds extra error detection to the self-test, and the other fixes a header problem with the self-test (reported by Phil). More details follow about the changes, if you want [...] Related posts:

Latest Magento Development projects, MageBase.com and Magento spotting

Ashley — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:04:49 +0000

Just a quick note about several things, not really a full post. I’ve got a few cool Magento development projects on the go at the moment, blog posts are on the way. I’ve started contributing over at MageBase and I think the comment system here is sometimes broken, but I need some of your help [...] Related posts:

Hosting Magento in New Zealand

Ashley — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:51:02 +0000

I received an email from a fellow Magento developer asking about hosting Magento in New Zealand – this post is about that email and my response because I think it will be useful to others asking the same questions. All of the Magento stores I’ve built to date have been overseas (read: not in New [...] Related posts:

Magento contact form error: Unable to submit your request

Ashley — Mon, 10 May 2010 05:56:16 +0000

Just a quick one, a number of users have contacted me reporting email problems with the error on the contact form Unable to submit your request, often this error is actually caused because between versions 1.3 and 1.4, an invisible form field called hideit was added to Magento, which if absent, will cause the form [...] Related posts: