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How to make an Excellent Project Most of the time, project starts but never completed 100% with in the given time and budget. There could be few reasons: Client do not know what he/she want to get developed Business dept (who communicates with client) also do not know much about functionality and development Developer allocation without any …

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How to set a custom group of users You can add a new group from the Magento admin area > Customers > Customer Groups > Add New Customer Group. Once a customer registers, you can change the group he/she belongs to from the Magento admin area > Customers > Manage Customers. Click on the Edit …

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Magento “Access denied” issue As a solution to the “Access denied” issue, you should log out from the Magento admin area and then log in again. If the above does not help, you should reset the admin privileges. This can be done through the Magento admin area > System > Permissions > Roles > Administrators. …

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How to add a Contact Us form in Magento Magento includes contact form functionality by default. A link to a contact form can usually be found in the footer of your Magento installation. Of course, you can add a contact form on any page. All you need to do is: Log in to the administrator …

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How to set up a blog in Magento It is not difficult to set up a blog in Magento. However, note that this functionality is not included by default and you will have to use a custom extension to add it. You can search Magento Connect for an extension that will fully suit your needs. …

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How to disable the Compare products functionality You can disable the Compare products functionality in Magento by following these steps: Edit app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Helper/Product/Compare.php and change the following code:  public function getAddUrl($product) { return $this->_getUrl(’catalog/product_compare/add’, $this->_getUrlParams($product)); } to public function getAddUrl($product) { //return $this->_getUrl(’catalog/product_compare/add’, $this->_getUrlParams($product)); return false; } Edit ./app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/catalog.xml (if you are using a different Magento …

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How to redirect Magento to open through www For SEO and usability purposes you may want to redirect your visitors to open your site only through www (http://www.yourdomain.com). To do this in Magento, you should open the .htaccess file in the folder where your Magento is installed. In it locate the RewriteEngine on line and …

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How to speed up Magento Many Magento issues are caused by slow performance. The recommended way to speed up Magento’s performance is to enable its Compilation function.  The performance increase is between 25%-50% on page loads. You can enable Magento Compilation from your Magento admin panel > System > Tools > Compilation.

How to enable Search Engine Friendly URLs in Magento To enable Search Engine Friendly URLs in Magento, you have to log in to the Magento administration area and click on the Configuration button. Under the System navigation menu, switch to Web page from the sub-navigation panel on the left. When the page loads, you will …

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How to reset Magento Admin Password Go to your cPanel > phpMyAdmin, select your Magento database, click the SQL tab and paste this query: UPDATE admin_user SET password=CONCAT(MD5(‘admin123’), ‘:sG’) WHERE username=’AdminUsername’; Note: You have to change newpass in the MD5(‘admin123’) with your new password, and change *AdminUsername* to your Magento admin username. Execute the query …

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Easy steps for ‘How to configure Magento to work with a new domain’ There are two things you should do in order to configure Magento to work with a new domain: Edit the Magento database Go to your cPanel > phpMyAdmin. Select your Magento database from the  left menu, find the table called core_config_data and …

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