May 2020: This solution is for an old version of Magento. I have had comments that it no longer works on the current version. You may want to try anyway. If you have a better solution, please reply in the comments and I will publish your link. Thankyou to Ashley Schroder for helping [...]
In a Magento project, I bulk deleted all images to start again. I thought I accomplished this by deleting all images from /media/catalog/product, and all records from tables catalog_product_entity_media_gallery and catalog_product_entity_media_gallery_value. However there was one step I missed, and that led to phantom images that appeared on the frontend (in the category view and product view), while [...]
This solution worked for me on Magento 1.9.0.1. To cut down file upload time and file size, I first suggested my client try uploading JPGs of quality 80, and see if that looked okay. For the first few, it seemed to be fine. After quite a few were uploaded, I noticed that the colours didn't [...]
Acknowledgement - I have to say I wouldn't have even installed Magmi without the contribution of Raymond from Blinkdata. I couldn't find any other helpful documentation online. I'm adding my $0.02 now to fill in the gaps between finding and downloading Magmi, and successfully uploading 1000 simple products and their associated 100 configurable products. Search [...]
When you look at a product page, you don't want your customer to have to change the quantity from 0 to 1 before adding the product to cart. To find the setting that makes the quantity default to 1 instead of 0: In your Magento backend, go to System > Configuration > Product > Inventory. [...]
If you have configurable products for Magento, and one of the super product attributes only has one option, the default "Choose an Option..." is a big fat negative for useability, and guaranteed to tick off your end user. I had this issue and spent an hour hunting through different blogs for a solution, and all of [...]
After you've made your configurable product with more than one option, changing the order is simple. 1. Navigate to Catalog > Manage Products > 2. Select your configurable product record. 3. Associated Products tab. 4. Scroll down to Super Product Attributes Configuration. 5. Use the little orange arrows to move the attributes higher or lower. [...]
