A very quick blog post how to change Magento's sitemap to correct the lastmod field for categories, products and cms pages. Read More

If you need to log or monitor actions performed in Magento Admin? Inchoo's admin logging actions extension comes to the rescue. A feature normally only found in Magento Enterprise Edition, this extension will help you discover which admin user logged in, where they were and what areas were modified, if any. And of course, this can also serve as a security tool as well.

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Magento's out of the box search experience is not the best, we can all agree. One of the sorely missed points is that CMS Pages are not searched by default. This can be a painful experience for you, if you have a lot of worth Static Page Content. Read More

Magento has a built-in cache. In version 1.5.0.1 Magento added a Full Page Cache option to Magento which gives us the ability to use holepunch techniques to cache blocks. This section here doesn't deal with the full page cache at all, rather just uses the standard Magento cache and we add the ability for Magento to cache category lists. In this short howto, we show you how to leverage this cache to speed up your category lists.

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So, you've setup 4 columns, and a default page limit of 16 in your configuration somewhere but somewhere, you'd like to run a 3 column count with 12 products per page? Here's how you do it.

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These Magento Developer Toolbar extensions make it much easier to develop themes and modules in Magento. The first is primarily aimed at theme development and allows you to quickly access Template Paths, Clean Cache, Merge CSS, Merge JS. The second is aimed primarily at debugging speed and development models and is aimed at extension developers.

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There's multiple ways to theme Magento. In this 20 minute how-to, we show you the quickest way to wrap your head around Magento themes. It's not the ideal way but it's certainly the easiest when you're trying to learn.

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Having implemented a number of websites now in Magento and being the web hosting provider for them also, it's been both challenging and rewarding trying to get Magento running at an acceptable speed.People generally don't understand what's happening when they say "my website is slow". So, for those of you unfamiliar with benchmarking / understanding what factors to consider when a page loads from a server, we have quite a number of variables.

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