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    Mar
    2010

    Disabling Google Analytics for front-end Administrators in Joomla

    A good question, raised by Jack Bremer, prompted the writing of this brief post in case it’s of use to somebody else at some point (including myself). The GA plugin in WordPress has this option, which is great for larger sites with loads of front-end admins all working on the site – you don’t want to be diluting your Analytics with all that noise.

    So, how can the same be acheived in Joomla? Well, quite easily actually. Read on to find out how…

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    Mar
    2010

    Advanced Techniques: The Joomla Parent Menu ItemID

    Joomla’s ItemID system offers a great way of customizing sites by giving the opportunity to style major parts of a template or page based on the menu links ItemID. Every menu link in a Joomla website has one; and they are unique to each and every link on your site.

    But what if you need to style entire sections of a site based on a handful of top-level (parent) menu items?

    This article explores the methodology of styling sub-level pages respective of their common parent menu links.

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    Jan
    2010

    Advanced Techniques: Mass Settings Changes In Joomla!

    Ever need to do a bulk settings change to an established site in Joomla? Perhaps you forgot to make the changes are you were building the site. This article describes how you can perform mass settings changes in Joomla using a simple MySQL query.

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    Oct
    2009

    How to Delete Test Orders and Reset Counters in Magento

    You’d have thought there was a basic provision for this in Magento, but unfortunately this is not the case and, looking at this thread on the Magento forums, it’s not something that Varien are looking at correcting at any point in the near future. The problem is that in-development stores need testing; to do that properly, you need to push test orders fully through the system, from invoice to completion.

    So what happens when you want to launch the site and you’re stuck with dozens of undesirable test orders? Well, read on to find out how…

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    Sep
    2009

    Moving a Magento Installation

    If you’ve ever had to move a Magento site from one server/domain to another, you’ll already know how tricky it can be to get things working right afterwards. The following article describes the processes and steps involved to successfully move your Magento site to a new server/domain name, along with some possible solutions for further issues you may encounter.

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