Magento: Automated Bash Script Installer

The following SSH script will automate the process of installing Magento, with or without sample data. It will walk you through everything, and the only thing you need to setup first is the database and assign a user to the database.

You will need SSH access to use this. SSH is similar to FTP, in that it requires software that you’ll need to download in order to connect to your site. If you don’t have an SSH client, you can download PuTTY for free.

Magento: How To Setup Google Adwords Conversion Tracking

Setting up Google Adwords Conversion Tracking on your Magento Community store is relatively easy – but it’s not a built-in Magento feature, so you’ll have to edit a template file. Here are the 4 simple steps that need to be done:

Symptoms
The following error message is shown instead of your usual Magento page:
There has been an error processing your request
Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons.
Error log record number: 1286489434787

Cause
Usually, it is caused by calling incompatible classes in themes, extensions or templates, database connectivity issues or resource shortage (i.e. insufficient diskspace or PHP memory_limit option).

Symptoms
Blank page is shown in Magento Frontend, Backend or Magento Connect Manager

Cause
If you see a blank page opening your Store in browser, it indicates that there is a PHP syntax error somewhere in the code of your site.
This usually happens when you modified files, templates or extensions manually, or installed a theme or extension with PHP syntax errors.

Troubleshooting
Before starting investigation please try to Disable Magento Compiler and Clear cached Magento data , in the most cases it should solve the issue.
To see the actual error message you need to login via FTP to your Store and use the following instructions:

I found a really simple solution:

- I made another store wiew
- I assigned a new theme to it
- I removed store view list from pages

now, I can easily switch between themes:
……/?___store=new_theme – new theme for developing purposes
……/?___store=default – current theme

and customers will still see and old theme

If you only want to change default sort order you can do it in catalog.xml just by adding the following action:

<action method="setDefaultDirection"><dir>desc</dir></action>

This action will work in any block of type “catalog/product_list_toolbar”, so the XML snippet would be:

<block type="catalog/product_list_toolbar" name="product_list_toolbar" template="catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml">
        <action method="setDefaultDirection"><dir>desc</dir></action>
    <!-- The following code shows how to set your own pager increments -->
    <!--
        <action method="setDefaultListPerPage"><limit>4</limit></action>
        <action method="setDefaultGridPerPage"><limit>9</limit></action>
        <action method="addPagerLimit"><mode>list</mode><limit>2</limit></action>
        <action method="addPagerLimit"><mode>list</mode><limit>4</limit></action>
        <action method="addPagerLimit"><mode>list</mode><limit>6</limit></action>
        <action method="addPagerLimit"><mode>list</mode><limit>8</limit></action>
        <action method="addPagerLimit" translate="label"><mode>list</mode><limit>all</limit><label>All</label></action>
    -->
</block>

This block is used twice in catalog.xml once for normal product lists and once for layered navigation product lists, so just make the same change in both places.

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<action method="setDefaultOrder"><field>entity_id</field></action>

php /home/USERACCOUNT/public_html/shell/indexer.php reindexall

<a href="{{store direct_url=category.html}}">Link</a>

Make four columns on grid view instead of three columns

{{block type="catalog/product_list" template="catalog/product/list.phtml" category_id="39" column_count="4"}}