Magento has the feature to verify the authenticity of newly registered customers before activating their account. When a user registers to your Magento shop, then he/she will get a confirmation email with a confirmation link. The customer’s account will be activated only after he/she clicks that confirmation link.

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 12.10 to Ubuntu 13.04. It went successfully. After I restarted my computer, I get a black screen at the time of login. Hence, I am unable to insert my login to my computer. However, I was able to login in recovery mode. I googled for solutions. Used the keywords like [...]

Problem: I am having the following error when I browse Layered Navigation on Magento. You cannot define a correlation name ‘attribute_idx’ more than once

You might get this error when you go to Magento Connect Manager (System -> Magento Connect -> Magento Connect Manager) of your Magento installation. This means that Magento Connect is unable to write files to your server. Warning: Your Magento folder does not have sufficient write permissions.

Problem: I had added a new product attribute. Suppose the attribute code is ‘test’. I have been trying to fetch/select that newly added product attribute. Here is my Magento collection code:- I don’t see the attribute ‘test’ when I print the collection data.

VI is a display oriented interactive text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. It is available by default on all UNIX systems. It is supplied with all Linux distributions. Here is a simple and quick VI command tutorial.

Let’s suppose that you have a custom Magento module named ‘YourModule’. You have a custom database table for the module. There is a date field in the table. Now, your requirement is that your module should be able to display and edit the date field from admin section. This article shows how you can display [...]

Suppose, you have a custom Magento module and you wanted to add a custom tab to “Customer My Account” section, i.e. the frontend part displayed after customer login. Here is the solution:-

Problem:- I recently upgraded a Magento shop from version 1.6 to 1.7 and suddenly the Google Analytics stopped tracking data. Solution:- You need to add ‘template’ attribute to googleanlytics block in app/design/frontend/your_package/your_theme/layout/googleanalytics.xml