This article is designed to evaluate the features of and differences (good and bad) between CRE Loaded 6.4 and X-Cart 4.3 in terms of finding products in their respective admin back-ends. The specific versions tested were CRE Loaded 6.4.1 and X-Cart 4.3.2. There are many things that are of importance when choosing your preferred shopping [ Read More ]
I ran an update via Magento Connect and it messed up the whole site. I couldn’t access the frontend or backend – All I got was a White Screen Of Death on the homepage and a call to an undefined function in one or two of the PHP files, which, when fixed resulted in being [ Read More ]
If you’re new to Magento and are struggling to work out where everything is, one of the first things you’ll want to be doing on a fresh install is to reindex Magento’s data. Here’s how to do it: From the ‘System’ Menu, locate ‘Index Management’ (see image below): When you reach the Index Management page [ Read More ]
If you’re new to Magento and having trouble locating its’ cache control, here’s how to find it: From the ‘System’ menu, select ‘Cache Management’ (see image below): When Magento’s ‘Cache Management’ page has loaded, click on ‘Flush Magento Cache’ (see image below): Hope that helps!
I encountered this problem when trying to add a product to a fresh Magento 1.4.1 installation: An error occurred while saving the URL rewrite. Now this suggests there’s a problem with your .htaccess file or some setting within Magento’s core that is preventing URL rewrites from happening. It isn’t, though… The Fix: After altering the [ Read More ]
If you are a merchant whose supplying bank for online transactions is Barclays, you will have heard mention of their e-payments system (payment gateway) ePDQ. ePDQ is a payment gateway setup by Barclays to enable online payment processing via your ecommerce website. CRE Loaded doesn’t have native ePDQ functionality and a recent request for a [ Read More ]
When installing Magento, right after I’d uploaded and unpacked the source, I came across a bunch of files and folders that needed to be changed in order to make the installation work smoothly. The easiest and quickest way I found was to use SSH to alter all directory permissions in my Magento root folder to [ Read More ]
I’ve been adding products to a client’s store all morning using CRE Loaded and it prompted me to start a new thread on what it’s like to use. Of course, if you already use CRE Loaded then you’ve probably found a workaround for any issues and if it’s the only cart you use regularly then [ Read More ]
By default, X-Cart displays products ascendingly depending on your preferences. In your admin section under ‘General Settings > Appearance Options’ you can configure the default way X-Cart should display products (by product (SKU), default (Name) or price). Let’s say we wanted to display products in Price order. It’s simply a matter of choosing the option [ Read More ]
Yeah, I spent ages trying to work this one out. I was using an image uploader in the backend of X-Cart 4.3.2 to transfer client-supplied images from my PC to their website for an ecommerce catalogue and the images all displayed fine in Firefox, but a couple were missing from IE. I figured it was [ Read More ]
