Grab your Analytics account number, this will always start with UA.

Login to your Magento admin and goto: Configuration -> Google Api -> Google Analytics.

Set “activate” to “yes” and insert the full account number in the field below.

That’s it!

SSH in to your server, head to the Magento install directory and issue command:

./pear mage-setup .

DON’T forget the trailing . Next install the Connect you require…

./pear install magento-core/Interface_Frontend_Default_Modern

Where “magento-core/Interface_Frontend_Default_Modern” is the key taken from MagentoConnect.

You need write permissions with your shell user in the theme and skin directory.

<default_setup>
<connection>
<host><![CDATA[localhost]]></host>
<username><![CDATA[username]]></username>
<password><![CDATA[password]]></password>
<dbname><![CDATA[database]]></dbname>
<active>1</active>
</connection>
</default_setup>


1. Locate the email templates

The Magento email templates are located in (note: “en_US” may change depending on language).

magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\account_new.html”(24,48):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\admin_password_new.html”(27,73):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\newsletter_subscr_confirm.html”(28,69):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_creditmemo.html”(23,63):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_creditmemo.html”(75,62):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_invoice.html”(23,63):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_invoice.html”(75,62):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_new.html”(23,63):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_new.html”(79,62):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_shipment.html”(23,63):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_shipment.html”(81,62):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\order_update.html”(26,52):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\password_new.html”(24,41):
magento\app\locale\en_US\template\email\wishlist_share.html”(23,65):

2. Edit your information in

replace alt=”Magento” with alt=”your store name”

replace Magento Demo Store with your store name

replace mailto:magento@varien.com with mailto:email@yourstore.com

replace dummyemail@magentocommerce.com with email@yourstore.com

replace (800) DEMO-STORE with (0800) YOUR STORE NUMBER

replace Monday – Friday, 8am – 5pm PST with your own store opening times and timezone

3. Advanced – Automated Shell Script

Another option would be to create a shell script with all you’re information in which goes through the directories in question and replaces text as we need. Note: You will need your Store View Name and Store Name to match your domain name.

#!/bin/sh
phone=(123)456-7890

find app/locale/en_US/template/email/sales -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/alt=”Magento”/alt=”{{var order.getStoreGroupName()}}”/g’ {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email/sales -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/Magento Demo Store/{{var order.getStoreGroupName()}} /g’ {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email/sales -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/mailto:magento@varien.com/sales@{{var order.getStoreGroupName()}}/g’ {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email/sales -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/dummyemail@magentocommerce.com/sales@{{var order.getStoreGroupName()}}/g’ {} \;

find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/alt=”Magento”/alt=”{{var customer.store.name}}”/g’ {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/Magento Demo Store/{{var customer.store.name}} /g’ {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/mailto:magento@varien.com/sales@{{var customer.store.name}}/g’ {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/dummyemail@magentocommerce.com/sales@{{var customer.store.name}}/g’ {} \;

find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i “s/(800)DEMO-STORE/$phone/g” {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i “s/(800)DEMO-NUMBER/$phone/g” {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i “s/(800) DEMO-NUMBER/$phone/g” {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i “s/(800) DEMO-STORE/$phone/g” {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm PST/24×7/g’ {} \;
find app/locale/en_US/template/email -type f -exec sed -i ‘s/logo_email.gif/logo.gif/g’ {} \;

1. SSH Script

#!/bin/bash
find www -name .htaccess -exec chmod 604 {} ;
find www -name *.php -exec chmod 644 {} ;
find www -type d -exec chmod 705 {} ;

2. SSH Command Line

find ./ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; && find ./ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

3. PHP Permissions Script

<?php
system(‘chmod -R 744 *’);
system(‘find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;’);
?>

BEFORE YOU BEGIN:

Login to admin panel > System > Configuration > Web and set both the secure and insecure base urls to this:  {{base_url}}

Then change the base url back once migrated across.

BEGIN:

1. Upload a fresh copy of Magento onto the new server (don’t run the installer yet)
2. Copy over your Themes/Templates, Skins, Images, and Custom Modules folders.
3. Export the old database and import it in to the new database. (phpmyadmin export/import works well)
4. Run the installer as usual.
5. Go into the Magento Connect Manager, and install this Magento extension: magento-core/Mage_All_Latest

That should be all you need. If you have other ways / experiences please let us know in the comments!

Simply download, extract and upload the magento-check.php file to your server and head to the URL to see if anything needs enabling, upgrading etc.

You can find the full server requirements here.

Download: Magento Requirements Checker

Magento – Frontend Tour

Magento – Backend Tour

• Directory 1: app/design/frontend/default/default/ — This directory contains the layout, translation (locale) and template materials.
• Directory 2: skin/frontend/default/default/ — This directory contains the images, CSS and block-specific Javascripts.

You’ll notice the structure in our template .zip files is:

• /app/design/frontend/default/template_name
• /skin/frontend/default/template_name

To use our Magento Templates you simply need to do the following:

• Unzip the downloaded archive. (WinRar required)
• Copy extracted files in to your store directory structure.
• Navigate to the Magento admin panel (ie.www.mydomain.com/admin), then the Design configuration tab (System » Configuration » Design tab).
• Select the name of your website from the (Current Configuration Scope) dropdown.
• In Default (under Themes heading), enter template_name and click save config.
• Remember to disable page caching (System » Cache Management) whilst testing!

If you have any questions or problems enabling your Magento templates & themes, please post in the comments and we’ll do our best to help.

Alternatively if you require an indepth knowledge please see the Magento Designer’s Guide.

For selling products, especially online, one thing is very imporant. Listening to your clients. If you listen to your clients and know exactly what they want, you can target your ecommerce website to their needs and sell more products.

A great way to do this is by using a blog inside your Magento ecommerce store.  Magento offers plugins that allows you to integrate a WordPress blog inside your store very easily. By doing this you can offer customers a place where they can review your products, give feedback and begin to build a community from your ecommerce store. Ofcourse blogging is also a great way to promote your products aswell as letting your clients know how to use certain products, with how-to’s, tutorials and reviews being the main areas.

Lazzymonks Blog Extension for Magento does this for you. All you need to do is follow a few simple steps which may be found here:

http://chasesagum.com/setup-a-blog-inside-your-magento-store