Here in this post, I am going to show you all that how to enable URL rewriting in Magento ? Its a simple thing but its very important in any online store. Because URL rewriting is useful in Search Engine Optimization.

So in magento if you want to start URL rewriting in magento, you have to take care of below steps :

1) First check on server that mod_rewrite is enabled.

2) After that when you are installing magento, Check the checkbox for url rewriting.

3) And mail task is when you have completed installation, then go to admin->system->index management and check all the checkboxes and select reindex from dropdown and click on save.

Thats it.. Now check your front end. I bet it will works fine now. If you have any issue or any suggestion then you can comment on this.

Thanks a lot !!

Do you want to add different widget for different template page ? Are you finding about how to show dynamic widget in template ?
Then your search end here. I will show you today that how you can add new widget and how you can call it in template.

First find functions.php in your theme folder. If not then create  functions.php. Then add below code in that file :

After adding this in your function.php, in admin, you can see one sidebar block in widget.

Now How to show this particular sidebar in template ? Its also an easy task. Open template file (you can also put this in page.php).

And place below code in at location where you want to show that widget:

<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'sidebar-6' ) ) : ?>

<div id="first" class="widget-area" role="complementary">

<?php endif; ?>


Thats it !! You can add as many widgets as you want in your site. You can make unique look.

If you have any doubt or any query then comment on this or you can directly contact me via contact form.

Thanks!!

Today I will show you that how you can change your header menu in magento and how you can put CMS pages in header dynamic menu.

In one of my project, I have faced the problem that how to change mail menu and how to put CMS pages in main menu.

After long search in google, i found the solution which I want  to share with you. If you want to change you header in Magento, Please follow below steps :

First open top.phtml file of your template. My path for this file is /public_html/app/design/frontend/default/hellostyle/template/catalog/navigation/top.phtml.

Now after this, Remove default menu code like this :

<?php $_menu = $this->renderCategoriesMenuHtml(0,'level-top') ?>
<?php if($_menu): ?>
<ul id="nav">
<?php echo $_menu ?>
</ul>
<?php endif ?>

And Add this code here :

<?php $collection = Mage::getModel('cms/page')->getCollection()->addStoreFilter(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId());?>
<?php  $collection->getSelect()
->where('is_active = 1'); ?>
<ul id="nav">
<?php foreach ($collection as $page): ?>
<?php $PageData = $page->getData(); ?>
<?php if($PageData['identifier']!='no-route' && $PageData['identifier']!='enable-cookies' && $PageData['identifier']!='home2') { ?>
<li>
<a href="/<?php echo $PageData['identifier']?>"><span><?php echo $PageData['title'] ?></span></a>
</li>
<?php } ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

Thats it ! Now you can see all the CMS pages in header.

If you have any problem or any query in this or if you want any help from myside, just comment on this.

Thanks !

After long tine, I am back for posting. Today I had a great experience.

Currently since from few weeks, I am working with Expression Engine. Now you thought that what is Expression Engine.

Now let me explain you in little brief. Expression Engine is one of the great CMS software like wordpress, Jommla, Drupal etc.

So when I was working with this, I faced one requirement like show latest posts of wordpress blog into Expression Engine site.

So I am wondering at that time that how it would be possible ? But I believe that in Web World, There is nothing impossible.

After long research, I found solution and this technique is works in any other CMS like joomla, Drupan etc. I explain here how it works.

We have to use SimplePie for this technoque. Now what is simplepie ? SimplePie is a RSS feed parsing in PHP. Just copy and paste below code :

Thats it !! If you think that this post is useful for you or if you have any issue or any problem then just comment me on this post.

Thanks !

Currently I pass my lots of time to work with wordpress. And today I want to share with you that how to use custom menu section in wordpress 3.0 or later.

I think most of people heard about this but didnt know how to use this. Today I want to share with you the usage guide of custom menu section.

First of all I want to clear with you that this is a new feature in wordpress 3.0 and later version. Using this feature you can create your own navigation for frontend with dropdown facility. Let us see the steps of how to do this :

1) First of all go to your admin->appearance->menus.

2) When you add new menu, you can see added menu in left “Primary Navigation”. Now you can add menu items from “custom links”, “Pages” and “Categories”.

3) When you add menuitems, you can see that item in right side. You can see “Yahoo” in above image. Its an external link menu item. If you want to make any menu item as achild page of any other menu item, just drag that menu link and place below parent. See above image. in Above image, “uncategorized” is a child of  “yahoo”.

4) You can create as many menus as you want. But you can show menus as compatible with your theme. The default twenty-ten theme supports only one custom menu. So for default theme, you have to select menu from “Primary location”.

5) Thats it. Now you can see your choosen menu in frontend.

If you like this post or if you have any suggestion or any confusion then just comment me. I will defenately solve your issue.

Thanks !!

Today, wordpress is widely used opensource. And in wordpress 3.0 and later versions, there are many new features which are not in later versions.

Yes, today I will share with you one new feature .  Do you know How you can add new custom post section in wordpress ?

Understand what I mean ? Ok, dont take tension. I will show you want I mean and what i want to share with you. Please see image :

See above image. In this, I have added two new section Deals and Podcast. I am going to share with you that how can you make this ?

First of all, open post.php file which it located in wp-include folder.

After that find function create_initial_post_types() and place below code in this function :

more details, click below :

Above code registers new custom post type podcast in your admin. You can see it in your admin. For insert posts in this section, place below code after completion function create_initial_post_types().

Now you can add posts in this new section. Enjoy this new magic. But one question will be in your mind that how can i display these posts in front end ? Am I right ? Don’t worry. I also give you the code by which you can list these posts in front end. Just copy paste below code where you want to display losts in front end:

Thats it !! If you like this post or if you have any query in wordpress on in PHP, feel free to comment me or contact me.

Thanks !!

Recently, I have a confusion that how can I make different single.php file for different posts ? After long research, I got a solution of this problem.

You can create as many single.php files as you want and you also can apply it to different posts. For example, In your site News section has a different layout then blog posts. At that time, this post helps to you .

Here I give you example that how you can do this.

First , create one file called single-categoryID.php in theme folder.

After creating this please go to single.php, file which shows you full article.

for more details click below:

After header, write below code:

You can create as many templates as you want. You can also create multiple headers like this and include like a\same above code.

Thats It !! Enjoy different template for different posts.

If you have any wordpress customization query or any confusion, feel free to ask me or comment me.

Thanks,

We generally use FCK Editor for the editor purpose in our website. But In many occation, every one has faced I mage uploading problem or Image not shown in frontend. Its an common errors of FCK editor.

For resolving these errors you have to set some parameters in the fck config file.
click below for more details :

If you have a problem of Image uploading, then follow below steps :

Go through this file FCKeditor\editor\filemanager\connectors\php\config.php and set absolute path of your directory. I think you all are know about absolute and relative path. Please set below path in your config file.

$Config['UserFilesPath'] = ‘http://www.abcd.com/userfiles/’ ;

$Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'] = ‘directody path of userfiles folder/’ ; // like home/htdocs/..

Using above step, your image upload problem and Image display problem will be solved. I have already faced these problems and also solved this problems.

If you have any suggestion or any query the feel free to comment on this.

Thanks !!

When you developing your site then you are facing a problem that how to send mail from your local host ?

Because when you are testing your project/site in localhost then this problem occurred. At that time you think about upload your site on server.

If you don’t want this type of uploading work and you want to test your mail form your localhost then here is the solution.

First of all open your xamp or wamp installed directory.
Then open php directory and find php.ini.

Then open this php.ini in notepad and find [mail function] in that file.

When you find it, remove semi colon before SMTP,smtp_port and sendmail_from.

Set this parameters like this :

SMTP=mail.test.com  //it indicates mail server

smtp_port=25            // it indicates port address

sendmail_from=test@test.com   // it indicates mail id from which you want to send mail

After this, please stop you xamp/wamp services, do refresh and start it again.

Thats it.. Now you can send mail from your localhost..

If you have any query or any confusion then feel free to comment me.

Thanks !!