Posts Tagged ‘debugging’

We recently saw how to avoid issues with Magento editor to edit content on CMS pages (such as the home page for example) but I wanted to take the time to post a much better way to handle content in CMS pages with Magento. (more…)

If you’re running Magento 1.4 (or 1.4.0.1) and your “email to a friend” form doesn’t send emails,  that’s because your Magento template (Magento theme) is not fully compatible with 1.4.

Note that the “email to a friend” form won’t return any error – it just won’t send the email and won’t redirect to the product page like it’s supposed to.

So here’s what you’ll need to do to update your Magento template in order to quickly fix this error: (more…)

Yet another Magento bug a lot of people are experiencing after upgrading their Magento installation to 1.4. Here’s a quick fix: (more…)

Many people are having the issue where the toolbar and pagination doesn’t show when listing products on a CMS page and are continuously asking for help on the Magento forums but as far as I could see there is no solution posted there. In fact that’s the case for most questions posted on the forums.

How to show the toolbar and pagination when listing products on pages other than category pages is actually quite simple. In fact it’s very simple! (more…)

Magento 1.4 comes built in with a wysiwyg editor that is there to make it easy for less savvy users to edit rich content on their store’s home page, content pages, product descriptions etc without HTML knowledge.

There is also an option to hide the editor in case you want to use external code and paste it there or if you want to edit the HTML directly.

If you know HTML, you’ll probably want to use your favorite editor and only paste the code in the admin when you’re done (with the editor hidden). The problem is that the editor gets very buggy if you do that and then try to make a small edit directly in the admin – or even if you load the edit page in the admin and save again! That’s because the editor is not hidden by default and when loaded it adds <p> tags everywhere and removes empty divs. Depending on the code you have this will either destroy your content’s formatting on the front-end or make it disappear altogether.

Keep reading for a simple way to solve this annoying issue with the Magento editor! (more…)

We recently posted solutions to the most common problems people are having with Magento 1.4 (whether you are upgrading your Magento installation or starting with a fresh Magento 1.4 installation).

Another very common problem is when JavaScript files aren’t referenced properly – which creates a bunch of errors and functionality problems. (more…)

Debugging is a normal part of web design and development. What’s unclear about that? Web developers don’t “create bugs”, or “make mistakes”. It’s just the way it goes. I’ll explain more about that below but for now consider this simple analogy:

When you write a book or a paper – you don’t expect the publisher to publish your first submission, do you? Your copy will go through series of edits, corrections, error fixing, rephrasing, rearranging, proof reading, etc… Often this phase can take longer than the time it originally took you to write the paper or book itself! That’s the way it goes. (more…)