I have a multi-store Magento installation for 11 different domains all selling the same product but targeting different countries, currencies and languages.
I have one CMS homepage at the moment set with content being pulled in with static blocks and a featured category. The title for all 11 websites is 'Home Page' in english.
I want to be able to change the meta title of each site, is there a way I can do this without having to create 11 separate CMS homepages in the admin and then assigning each website to it's specific CMS page? It seems overkill to have to create a separate page to change just change one line on each website.
The title, meta-keywords and meta-description are added to the page from here: Mage_Cms_Block_Page::_prepareLayout(), to be more exact, on these lines:
if ($head) {
$head->setTitle($page->getTitle());
$head->setKeywords($page->getMetaKeywords());
$head->setDescription($page->getMetaDescription());
}
I see here 2 quick options:
You override the method mentioned above and replace $head->setTitle($page->getTitle()) with $head->setTitle($this->__($page->getTitle())) and add to your translation files the translation of Home page for every language.
You override the method Mage_Cms_Model_Page::getTitle() and make it return a translated version of the title then again add Home page to your translation files.
I recommend the first option.
If you have 11 sites all selling the same item, duplicate content could very well become an issue, especially if you are dealing with hundreds+ skus. I would suggest doing the individual CMS pages like you first suggested and change more than just the META data.
Also, in System>Configuration>Design, you can change the Title Prefix and Suffix and default info per site so that may help as well.
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Does anyone knows an extensions that will display Joomla! articles, like a category blog layout, based on first interaction visitors choice?
I don't want to stress the visitors and to make them create a user and then select the category of interest unless it's a must do.
I want to make them choose some category of interests (News, Fashion, etc.), set a cookie with those values in their browser and then display the latest articles from those categories and remember for, let's say 30 days, the choice for further visits.
Thanks in advance!
I don't know of any extension to do this, but you could do it yourself easily enough. You could have a page to first check the cookie. If set, then you redirect to the category blog. If not, then this page has a form which collects the info and sets the cookie, and then redirects to the category blog. You could use Breezingforms for this, as it allows you to add post forms actions, so you can set your cookie.
Your category blog would have to be a custom component (I don't think you would get away with a template override of com_content here). You could copy com_content to create a new extension and then you would only need to read the cookie and adjust the categories displayed (instead of the component getting this info from the database). Everything else would be the same (if you have existing template overrides for com_content remember to copy them over).
I have recently moved my store over to Magento 2. The store is up and running and all is good. I've just noticed that for most products, Magento 2 has created 3 different URL's for the same product.
If for instance, the product is located in Category A > Sub Category B. The following URL's are created;
mystore.com/product.html,
mystore.com/categorya/product.html,
mystore.com/categorya/subcategoryb/product.html
I think this will end up being a problem for search engines, as its going to result in a fair bit of duplicate content.
Ideally I'd like to just keep the;
mystore.com/categorya/subcategoryb/product.html
url, how can I stop Magento from rewriting the other 2 urls, whilst making sure links still work from all pages.
It's worth mentioning, that if I visit the product from a home page link, it uses the mystore.com/product.html url. Whilst if I visit the product from the Category A page, it uses the mystore.com/categorya/product.html url. Similar if I click a link in the subcategory.
you can use default magento settings by stores->configuration -> Search Engine Optimization -> Use Categories Path for Product URLs -> 'yes'
If this can solve your problem
How to create a second (or more) front page in Joomla? (Joomla 3.1.5 here)?!
My dream website would be a website with several Homepages, but I haven't figured yet how to make it....
What I mean: for example if you have website on sports - you want a Homepage for: Hockey, Football and Basketball
- each with all 18 (or so) template positions, full page of Modules, etc....Exactly like it is on actual Front Page, but each on different topic....
How to do this?!
and how to get over 'question quality standarts' - everything is described above;
You need to create menu items, assign them to different templates, assign the modules et voilà.
Create the new featured menu items and filter them by category, assuming one is Hockey, Golf etc.
Then in the template manager, install your new template or create a new style for one of the templates based on your requirements, and assign the newly created menu item.
If you're looking for a howto, you might want to start from Joomla.org or google.
It's not a matter of quality, but of context. This is a developers site, not a Joomla usage forum.
Unless you have a total different requirements that what you have described, one way to achieve what you are after for in Joomla 3, is to create several featured articles menu-items with the category settings you want, and also configure your template to work the way you want, with the module positions and the module assignments.
There are also other custom content components, you may want to try, like k2, that offers a variety of options when creating blog layout pages.
And to add to Daniel Bottner's comment that under conditions, this was also possible even with J1.5.
similar simple example in J1.5:
example-page1
example-page2
'Riccardo Zorn' did answer this question pretty well.
What you basically wan't to do is to create a website with kind of a following structure.
site:
1: category 1 (sport x)
2: category 2 (sport y)
2.1: subcategory to 2(sport y ~ men)
2.2: subcategory to 2(sport y ~ women)
...
While each category would be a seperate menu as well as very likely a different template.
It is up to you to filter for the templates and menues which modules are shown there.
But you will have one basic entry point for the website.
No offense but what you want to do is basically default in joomla since at least version 1.6
http://example.com/products/2-uncategorised/
http://example.com/products/2-uncategorised/2-aaa-bb-ccccc
I have this structure, where products is a featured page with articles. What I want is just block the access to the category and related articles.
So, http://example.com/products/2-uncategorised/ or http://example.com/products/2-uncategorised/2-aaa-bb-ccccc should redirect to http://example.com/products.
The only way that i know is:
#RedirectMatch 301 ^/products/.*$ http://www.example.com/products
Note: If I change the permissions of the article, available only to Registered users then the article is removed from the featured page if the user is not registered (wrong, this page should be public).
I need to preserve all articles in featured page and block the access of the individual article and the category that it belongs.
The question: There is another way without .htaccess ?
What is the problem with having multiple paths to the same article?
Are you worried about the user experience or the effect on your SEO?
If it's the later then you have some control over this.
Using "canonical" tags, you can stipulate which is the master URL for Google et al to index.
You can also manipulate the robots setting for each category or menu item.
If it's the former, I certainly wouldn't recommend redirects in htaccess. If you absolutely must redirect, use the redirect component that comes with Joomla. Still not recommended for this.
Why don't you do away with the featured page and just use articles with their own hidden menu items. This will give a direct access, no category view. If you want to add other articles to the bottom in a blog like style, you could add articles to modules and get a similar effect?
I'm setting up a Magento site and have some design requirements that we can't quite get right. What is the best way to setup for the website, store, store view and then the categories for the needs below?
Overview:
One domain name, one set of customers
3 similar product lines that appeal to different industries
Specific Requirements:
The home page should show static content about the company and featured products from all three main categories of products
Each main category of products should have a distinct visual design that carries through when looking at any of the products in those categories
It should be seamless for customers to move from one category of products to another and have the design change without having to choose a store from a dropdown etc.
Home Page: Design A, any and all products may show.
Category 1: Design 1, products only from cat 1 show
Category 2: Design 2, products only from cat 2 show
Category 3: Design 3, products only from cat 3 show
Every combination of websites and stores and store views that we have tried results in strange behavior like changing a store and getting "There was no Home CMS page configured or found." instead of seeing the unique design and category it should be showing. So far we can only get the designs to be different by making new CMS pages which doesn't seem practical.
This seems like something that Magento is made to do and I have to be missing something.
Thank you for any help.
-Shane
Your design needs imply work and considerations from multiple areas of configuration. I'll tackle them in turn. The tl;dr is that there may be more than one way to accomplish what you want, with the number of options at your disposal depending on your needs.
1) One domain name, one set of customers
Domain names (URLs) are configurable for all configuration scopes: Global (aka "Default"), Website, and Store (aka "Store View"). Ultimately, Magento configuration comes down to the most granular/specific scope, which is the store ("Store View") scope. If a configuration value is not specified at the store scope, its value is derived (inherited) from the website or global scope.
Customers are configured to "belong" to all websites or to an individual website (System > Configuration > Customer Configuration: Account Sharing Options). There is no out-of-box capability to restrict customers to a particular store.
2) 3 similar product lines that appeal to different industries
Depends on things discussed below.
1) The home page should show static content about the company and featured products from all three main categories of products
Assuming that you are using the standard configuration of having the Mage_Cms module serve up the home page (System > Web > Default Pages), that CMS page should be visible for all store views. CMS blocks and pages are restricted based on store. Now, later on in your post you mention that you see different behavior in the home page "instead of seeing the unique design and category it should be showing", which indicates that you would like to have different but analogous content for each store's home page. You can use one homepage to do this, but rather than specify content in the content area, you'll need to include your content by specifying a block in Layout XML Update - this block will load a particular category based on the store.
2) Each main category of products should have a distinct visual design that carries through when looking at any of the products in those categories
Establishing theme variants from global scope is possible at the website- and store-wide scopes. Theme variants can also be specified per CMS page, product, and category [each entity having a tab in its admin panel for effecting this change], with the latter having the option of "waterfalling" its custom theme settings to "child" categories and products. Which approach you take depends on your catalog hierarchy as well as the variations present in your themes.
It should be noted that if you need to present different category structure, or if you need to enable/disable products differently based on context, then you will be dealing with multiple websites. This is because category structure relies on root categories, and only websites are associated with root categories. As a reminder, "websites" in Magento have no implicit connection to distinct URLs, it's just an unfortunate naming convention for a scope level.
3) It should be seamless for customers to move from one category of products to another and have the design change without having to choose a store from a dropdown etc.
Based on this final stated requirement, and assuming that you are relying on Magento's native navigation, you are locked into one category structure, and will be using the approach of waterfalling category design, which you will set for each top-level main category under your single root using the "Custom Design" tab:
Another approach would be to create three distinct websites with distinct root categories and then build a menu by hand which links to each of the three stores, but I think this is less ideal based on your stated needs. You could also use one root category and then hide categories by website. Again, less likely that this will be appropriate for you.
Based on the information above you might end up clarifying or adding to your question. I'll update my answer in response if necessary.