What Version of Magento am I using? Updated on September 14, 2023 by Carrie Smaha At times, you may need to know what version of Magento 1.6 you are running. This information can be handy if you are troubleshooting an issue you may be experiencing or if you are looking for compatible extensions. Your hosted Magento version information is easily located in the Magento Admin Panel. Log into your Magento Read More >
Setting Magento 1.6 to Not decrease Stock When Order is Placed Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha Magento 1.6 will automatically decrease your stock inventories when an order is placed. This can be a great feautre if you sell physical products. However, if you sell digital products you do not need to keep a physical inventory. This you do not need to subtract items from your inventory that are sold, you could Read More >
How to Allow Backorders in Magento 1.6 Updated on October 24, 2023 by Carrie Smaha Magento 1.6 will not allow backorders of products. Before you can allow products to be displayed that has no stock inventory you should set your shopping cart to display out of stock products. After this has been done, you can then configure Magento 1.6 to allow backorders. This is done in the Magento Admin Panel. Read More >
How to Display Products that are Out of Stock in Magento Updated on September 14, 2023 by Carrie Smaha By default, your hosted Magento website will not display products that you do not have inventory for. If a product has no inventory your website’s visitors will not see it. This can be problematic since you may want to pre-sell products before their release date or have the ability to back-order stock on your website. Read More >
How to create a new Joomla 2.5 AcePolls poll Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. If you would like to add polls to your Joomla 2.5 website, you can do so using the AcePolls extension. In Read More >
Joomla 2.5 Polls – Installing AcePolls Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. If you want a poll on your Joomla 2.5 website, you can add a poll using AcePolls. In this tutorial, we’ll Read More >
How to stop Displaying Product Reviews in Magento 1.6 Updated on October 24, 2023 by Carrie Smaha By default, Magento 1.6 allows your website’s visitors or guests to write reviews for your products. there may be times when you want to disable their ability to write reviews. Disallowing guest to write reviews in Magento 1.6 is done through the Magento Admin Backend. Log into your Magento Admin Panel. Go to System ->> Read More >
Changing the Year-To-Date Report Dashboard in Magento 1.6 Updated on October 24, 2023 by Carrie Smaha When you first log into the Magento 1.6 Admin backend you are presented with the Dashboard. This dashboard gives you statistics or reports. If you are running the store on a fiscal year instead or a calendar year, you may want to change how the reports display. You can change the date in which your Read More >
How to Change the Logo in Magento Updated on October 4, 2023 by Carrie Smaha As you start to customize your newly installed Magento web store, you’ll probably want to change the logo that displays in the top right section of the header on each page. This can be easily accomplished in the Magento Admin Panel at any time. Uploading Your Logo to Magento In Magento, to change the logo you Read More >
How to create a Smart Search Module in Joomla 2.5 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In previous articles, we showed you how to enable Smart Search in Joomla 2.5 and how to index your content for Read More >
Setting the Countries Options in Magento 1.6 Updated on July 14, 2023 by Carrie Smaha Now, that you have installed your Magento 1.6 store, and you’re selling products on the Internet, you’ve become a global business. Anyone with an Internet connection could access your website. Magento server hosting gives the admin the ability to block access to specific countries. Also, “Postal Code is Optional” gives you the ability to select the Read More >
Updating Locale Settings in Magento 1.6 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha Locale options in Magento 1.6 define the local time and date settings as well as the weekend days of your Magento shopping cart. Weekend days are defined as the non-working days of the week in your area. Defining these days can help customers determine shipping methods and other aspects of shopping on your website. Setting Read More >
Changing the Magento 1.6 Startup Page in Admin Updated on July 14, 2023 by Carrie Smaha When you log into the Magento 1.6 admin panel, you will see the Magento Dashboard. While the dashboard may contain valuable information, it may not be the information you want to see when you first log into the backend. You can change the Admin Startup Page in the Magento 1.6 Admin Backend relatively easy. Please Read More >
Changing the Magento 1.6 Login to Case Sensitive Updated on October 30, 2023 by Carrie Smaha When you log into the Magento 1.6 admin panel, by default it is not case sensitive. Forcing the login to be case sensitive will improve the security of your Magento shopping cart and backend. It becomes increasingly harder to hack passwords if they are case sensitive. Changing the default setting to force logins to be Read More >
Disable the Admin Dashboard Charts in Magento 1.6 Updated on September 14, 2023 by Carrie Smaha In your hosted Magento 1.6 Admin Panel the main screen when you log in is referred to as your Dashboard. The Dashboard contains statistics about your Magento Shopping cart. The dashboard in Magento by default displays charts with your cart sales statistics. You can turn these charts off. Disabling the charts in Magento 1.6 can Read More >
How to Add the Store Information to Magento 1.6 Updated on August 16, 2021 by Carrie Smaha Magento 1.6 allows you to enter contact information so your website visitors can contact you. This information will be displayed on the website for your webstore’s visitors to see. You can add the “Store Name”, “Store Contact Telephone”, and “Store Contact Address” in the Magento 1.6 Admin Panel. Please feel free to visit our other Read More >
How to Clear the Cache in Magento Updated on September 14, 2023 by Carrie Smaha Magento by default includes a caching system to help improve the performance. When you make changes to your Magento website, you may not see the changes immediately. In cases where you want to see the changes you have made to your live Magento website, you’ll need to clear the cache files. Clearing the Magento cache Read More >
Adding Store Email Addresses to Magento Updated on October 24, 2023 by Carrie Smaha Magento uses three pre-defined email addresses in certain situations. By default, you can specify the General Contact, Sales Representative, and Customer Support email addresses. Each address has the default sender name and email address when you initially install your store. You’ll want to update these to your own email addresses during the configuration of Magento. Read More >
Index Content for Joomla 2.5 Smart Search Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. In our previous tutorial, we walked you through the steps for enabling Smart Search in Joomla 2.5. The next step is Read More >
Enable Smart Search in Joomla 2.5 Updated on November 19, 2021 by Brad Markle Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. While previous versions of Joomla include by default a site search feature, Joomla 2.5 now includes a feature called Smart Search. Read More >
