I recently stumbled onto a Magento bug involving the currency switcher while working on a site for a client. The currency switcher was enabled and working perfectly everywhere on the site except the home page. Any products shown on the homepage (such as in a New Products block or widget) remained in the original currency.

After a bit of digging, I realized that the products on the homepage were being cached as a part of the home HTML block, and therefor did not change with the currency switcher. Get the fix now! Read More
Good news! Magento 1.4.2 has just been released! The bad news is that upgrades commonly create new problems with Magento themes that worked just fine on older installations.

The most common problem people are facing when upgrading to Magento 1.4.2 is caused by a change in the way the Wishlist is set up. Fortunately, the fix is very simple. Read More
Magento is a vast piece of e-commerce software that could take years to understand fully, inside and out. But that's ok, you don't have to! Magento's user community is equally vast, and the sum of their knowledge is astounding.

Tap into this great resource and check out Magento Expert: a gathering place where Magento users of all levels can ask questions and exchange knowledge. Magento Expert is regularly monitored by real Magento experts, so you can quickly get free professional answers to your Magento questions. Check It Out Now! Read More
When you add a New Products block in a Magento CMS page, such as your homepage, the default number of products that will be displayed is 5. If your Magento template has room for more than 5 products in your New Products feed, you'll notice that it stops at 5 and leaves the rest of the block empty.

You may have seen a fix for this that requires you to locate Magento core files, copy them to a local folder, and edit the default New Products count, but there's a much simpler, and much faster way to accomplish this. Read More
Rearranging elements in Magento templates is usually fairly simple, but if the layout you want to achieve would require you to move that PHP script to a different PHTML file, you may often find that this will fail to output your content. Read More
Some Magento users have noticed that there was a problem with one of the PEAR packages the new Magento 1.4.1.1 Stable release. The problem has now been fixed, so those who have not yet installed or upgraded to Magento 1.4.1.1 are safe to do so. However, if you have already downloaded or upgraded your installation and are experiencing the issue you will need to apply this patch. Read More
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Follow these quick steps to convert your Magento 1.3 template to be compatible with the new Magento 1.4.1 and get your site up and running in no time! Read More
If you find that your product images are too compressed, you can increase image quality by following these simple steps: Read More
Magento just announced that they've created a patch to fix many of the issues with Magento CE 1.4.1.0 Read More