{"id":1255,"date":"2012-03-30T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/03\/30\/how-to-reindex-your-magento-website\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:45:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:45:48","slug":"how-to-reindex-your-magento-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/magento\/how-to-reindex-your-magento-website\/","title":{"rendered":"How to ReIndex your Magento 1.6 Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magento 1.6 indexes all of your content in order to speed up how fast it accesses it. If you make changes to your store such as editing products, you\u2019ll want to re-index the content so the changes will display on your front end. By default, if you have never indexed your data you\u2019ll need to index it since none of the content will be indexed to start.<\/p>\n<p>Re-indexing your content in Magento 1.6 is done through your Magento Backend. Magento will notify you if you need to re-index your content. If you have installed Magento 1.6 Sample Data, none of the sample products will show until you re-index your content.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/edu\/magento\/how-to-log-into-magento-admin-panel\/\">Log into your Magento Admin Backend<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Go to <strong>System -&gt;&gt; Index Management<\/strong><\/li>\n<p> <a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/magento_magento_index_1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/magento_magento_index_1-1024x510.jpg\" class=\"optimized-lcp-image\" alt=\"magento_index_1\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/magento_magento_index_1-1024x510.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/magento_magento_index_1-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/magento_magento_index_1-768x382.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/magento_magento_index_1.jpg 1517w\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n\n<li>If re-indexing or updating is rewuired the \u201c<strong>Update Required<\/strong>\u201d field will be labeled \u201c<strong>Yes<\/strong>. You need to select \u201c<strong>Reindex Data<\/strong>\u201d on the right side<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/magento_magento_index_2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"magento_index_2\" class=\"std_ss\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/magento_magento_index_2.jpg\" width=\"1515\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n\n<li>You will receive a system notification like the one below to let you know what has been reindexed<\/li>\n<p><a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/magento_magento_index_3.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"magento_index_3\" class=\"std_ss\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/magento_magento_index_3.jpg\" width=\"1535\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you need further assistance please feel free to <a ferh=\"\/support\/community-support\">ask a question on our support site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magento 1.6 indexes all of your content in order to speed up how fast it accesses it. 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