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We have provided some useful information for users of Magento, for people looking to understand Hosting, and for other useful information.
Change Admin / User Password in Magento Back-end
It's useful to change your passwords on a regular basis in order to keep your login details secure. Best practice passwords are ones that have lower and upper case letters, numbers and symbols in them. To change your password in Magento backend, log in. Go to SYSTEM >...
read moreYour Site’s No-Index Robots Settings
Magento >, Wordpress >, Joomla > When a developer builds a website, any website, and is doing so on a public server, they will normally set their site to 'no-index'. This is a tag that tell Google and other search engine robots 'DON'T LIST MY SITE ON YOUR SEARCH...
read moreCustom Order Export in Magento
By default, Magento's order export only exports a few basic fields, often not enough even basic information required to for anything. By customer request, we install an extension that extends the order export process; allowing you export all order components plus any...
read moreSetting Canonical Links for Duplicate Content in WordPress
If you have pages with duplicate content on your website (Wordpress included), it's best practice to prioritise which page you want Google to rank. Have a duplicate page or several duplicate pages can give Google mixed messages about your website, and dilute search...
read moreAdjusting Existing Shipping Rates with Webshopapps Matrix Rates Free Extension
If you've had the free version of Matrix shipping rates installed and configured into your Magento website (great basic version), here's a quick set of instructions of how to EDIT these. To set them up from scratch, go to webshopapp's website Log into your Magento...
read moreOrder Authorized in Magento 2 but Pending in Paypal – How to take it through to a sale
If you have Paypal set up on your Magento 2 store, by default the 'payment action' will be set to 'authorization'. Once you receive an order through paypal, Magento will change the status to 'processing' (by default) but when you log into your paypal account, you see...
read moreAdding Banner Ads to your Business Listings
This is a tutorial on adding banner ads to your business listings: If you are uploading an old banner ad with an old size, get this ready in a folder on your computer. If it's a newer bigger banner, have this ready as a .jpg or .gif image. Log into the backend of the...
read moreProvide Effective Feed Marketing using Koongo’s Feed Tools
Excel is a proud partner of Koongo - one of Magento's leading marketing feed tool providers. Commerce is all about product marketing: you will manage to keep the business afloat only if your conversion rate is constantly getting higher. Advertising goods at...
read moreTouching Up, Preparing and Optimizing Images for your Website
Touching up pictures for your website can take just a few minutes of your time and can greatly enhance your ecommerce website, gallery or images added to your web pages or blog.
I will run you through a number of simple techniques in order to make a difference to your chosen pictures very quickly.
The screenshots I will show throughout this tutorial are of me using Adobe Photoshop CS5, however all techniques I am using are also available using previous versions (at least CS3) and Elements 7 – the position of the tools might’ve slightly changed but should be in the same area.
read moreDaft Integration for Estate Agent Websites in Ireland
We recently developed a website where we have integrated Daft.ie (Ireland's biggest property website) API into a website. The info passed on was integrated on this website. The website has two types of listings - listings not listed on Daft and ones that are. The...
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