I've been trying to add custom fields to Magento's CMS page. I've followed two different guides online and in both cases, it doesn't display the box even after logging out, clearing cache, and even disabling cache.
Is there a different way to do this on 1.7?
I've followed these guides:
http://blog.flexishore.com/2011/08/add-custom-field-to-cms-page/
http://www.atwix.com/magento/adding-custom-attribute-to-a-cms-page/
Thank you!
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I'm sure there is a much simpler solution for what I am trying to do here, but I am running out of ideas. Essentially I need to create a phpBB forum what exists within my Magento install so that the header and footer from my Magento store are always visible.
The thought is to use a CMS static page for the forum and then style it accordingly. Is there a way to accomplish what I want to do without significant modification? Or, do I just create a one off .phtml file that calls my header, footer and forum? Am I on the right page or am I over/under thinking this?
You'll need to get around Magento's bootstrap (/index.php), because phpBB won't function if Magento is intercepting every URL.
There's also the issue of Magento and phpBB not sharing authentication systems, so users have to log into one, neither, or both. That's not a great UX if you ask me, but solving that problem is a very complicated issue.
Other than that you shouldn't have many problems.
I have to build a website for a mobile store. They want to list their products but don't want to start selling yet. I have done a lot of website with Joomla and Virtuemart.
This time I want to use Magento as they use Lightspeed a POS that offers integration with Magento community edition.
My question is can I simply use Magento as a CMS to only display products and a few static pages like about us etc. I went through stackoverflow and found that some members have recommended some good blog integrations for magento so that part is solved(Thanks :-) ).
I know I can use wordpress as a blog with magento.
I rephrase....Can I use it to simply display products!
If Yes then please let me know if I am doing it for the right reason.
the reason are:
Adding products and product information becomes very easy in a
shopping cart(But in a CMS like Joomla each page has to be literally "designed" or I will have to use CCK editor. It still
becomes difficult for the client to update products IMO)
It comes with built in plugins to show related/featured products
etc. with a click on a button or options in the backend while client
simply puts the appropriate tags(With a CMS have to use a plugin or
module in Joomla that has to be set to show in the particular pages)
Automatic display of images etc is easier in Magento in comparison
to a CMS like Joomla where I will have to use a plugin or a gallery
that is set to show inside an article
The buy/add to cart button can easily be disabled and a "more info"
button can be added that will send an email to the client. They get
the exact product code the customer is asking for(Doing that in
Joomla would require a lot of extra stuff like adding codes or use
an advanced contact form with a tag to be entered for each page)
Last but not the least when client is ready to go online it can
easily be converted
Does Magento have two display? One is simply a catalog and the other a store. I have seen that in some stores online(not necessarily using magento) I am assuming either they created a website with the products pages first and then added a store later.
But in many cases it looks like a part of the Shopping application.(i just can't seem to remember which one they were using now).
If Magento allows that then I think my problem is solved. I simply use the "catalog option" and when the client is ready for the store I simply pull the products using a extension from their POS software.
Thank you for taking the time to read/answer.
Using Magento as a catalog only without selling the items is pretty straightforward. The easiest thing to do is just to use the catalog category lists to list the products and just make sure the "order" button is not visible.
You can do this simply by removing it from the product detail template (and the list/grid template in case they have it).
Or you could (I think) set all products to 'out of stock' this will automatically remove the 'order' button.
If you want to be thorough you should edit the cartControllers's addAction to disable adding products to the cart.
If you are going to combine Magento with Wordpress, Fishpig has developed a plugin with which you can use shortcode within Wordpress blogposts or/and pages to display products.
More info about that can be found here: http://fishpig.co.uk/wordpress-integration/docs/shortcodes.html
System > Configuration > Advanced > Advanced
Disable the modules you don't want to use.
For example, if you wanted to use Magento as catalog only then disable sales module.
Hope this works for you!
I am using magento full page cache, EE 1.11.2. For some reason my secondary mobile theme is displaying on some of my catalog pages. e.g. two out of 6. This only happens with FPC on. It is reoccurring and happens on the same pages. The cache can be valid or invalid. I have not found any information on a topic similar to this. Any ideas or suggestions on how to solve this?
I am facing an issue in Magento. I want to add some custom fields to Magento Admin Panel CMS Edit Page. I got a page while searching where it describes adding a custom field in CMS page: http://blog.flexishore.com/2011/08/add-custom-field-to-cms-page/ .
I have followed every step in this, but I am still getting an error Call to undefined function getLoad().
Can anyone here explain me how to add custom fields in CMS page?
You can try this article (http://www.atwix.com/magento/adding-custom-attribute-to-a-cms-page/) as well, it's more simple, maybe it will be helpful for you.
Also don't forget about cache, I recommend you disable it when you are testing your own modules.
We can extend the existing functionality of magento for frontend by copying modules in local area and doing some other required stuff but how I can extend or customize the magento admin area to meet my requirements without touching the core code.
For example I want to extend magento indexing functionality. During re-indexing catalog search Magento add the indexed data in catalgosearch_fulltext table and I also want to add the data to the one of the my custom database table, so that later I can look up into this database table when user search for product in my store.
Is it possible to customize magento admin area?
Please guide me.
Thanks
The preferable way to handle this is actually to override the models you want to change using Magento's class override system (both for FrontEnd and Admin changes). That way, you'll have a much easier time upgrading your Magento installations.
Sure! You can customize everything you want.
All admin related modules are in
app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml
you can rewrite them.