Magento plus some CMS, simple and quick integration tip

Sometimes due loosely, undefined, agreement around some feature and deadline that’s thrown upon us, developers need to look for the fastest solution around some requirement. Fastest but stable is the key word here. Here is a practical example of one can easily connect Magento with some other system. In my case I had Magento plus WordPress integration in which I needed to pull some user data, such as latest...

WordPress single post templates withouth any plugin needed

Until few days ago I was blabbering around with my friends how I dislike the WordPress due to lack of object oriented programming features and so on. This weekend I revised my thoughts and come to conclusion, once again, how WordPress is great. Sometimes OOP is not the best way to go. And truth be told, OOP CMS solution’s are sometimes far more slower. This weekend I got a whole new look at WordPress and the...

Broken Compare Products popup page after Magento upgrade

Recently I did an upgrade of Magento 1.0.19870.1 to Magento 1.1.2 version. Most of the things went pretty smooth, without any errors. However, if you’re using custom theme instead of the built in you’re probably run into some errors. One of those errors will most probably be broken page. Among few other problems, I had a broken popup page on Compare Products. If you login to backend interface and turn on...

Magento upgrade and broken templates

Few days ago I had a task of upgrading Magento ver. 1.0.19870.1 to Magento ver. 1.1.1. When you are doing something like that on your own development machine, you probably don’t care much about backing up your database and installation folder. On my development machine I had a clean install of version 1.0.19870.1 where I merely entered few products, categories and other minor things. I had no other theme...