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Reseting Magento file permissions

May 12th, 2010 in E-Commerce

Reseting magento file permissions from command shell (SSH) shorthand:

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
chmod o+w var var/.htaccess includes includes/config.php app/etc
chmod 550 pear
chmod -R o+w media

Timur Zaynullin Information Architect & Developer

Magento: How to add noindex, nofollow robots meta tag or change meta title or description on certain pages

May 1st, 2010 in Web Development, E-Commerce, Code

Here's a small tip on how to modify title, description or add meta robots tag on any magento page via xml layouts or layout updates.

It's obvious how to do that for CMS or products page (on the Meta Data tab). There you can change Meta description or keywords. What about robots meta tag? or changing titles or description on checkout page? You would need to do in case:

you don't want google to archive your products prices, therefore you would need to add noarchive to robots meta tag
you don't want duplicate or unnecessary content in search engines, so you would use noindex, follow
you want to update checkout/contact/send a friend page meta description or title.

The approach is very simple...

Timur Zaynullin Information Architect & Developer

Magento: How to remove certain States from state/region list at Checkout or registration.

April 29th, 2010 in Web Development, E-Commerce

Magento is an e-commerce platform that supports multi-language and all that multi stuff. Therefore list of Regions per country is perfectly legal. The list of regions for USA contains: Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Armed American Forces all over the world. This is the list that is available both during registration and on checkout. There are a lot of store owners/developers/designers who want to remove some of the items from that list. Why?

Timur Zaynullin Information Architect & Developer