Is Your Magento Store Secure? Here’s the Solution of Your Concern

Magento
Magento, despite being one of the robust e-commerce platforms available for online business players, has often found itself at the recieving end of hacking attacks and unauthorized logins, which further lead to online frogeries. Due to its huge popularity and the fact that it involves a lot of monetary transactions, e-businesses are realising the vulnerability of the platform and are vying to safegaurd their store from security breaches and malware attacks. So, how would you plan to protect your Magento store against the threat of cyber criminals? Well, the process is not as tricky as you might be thinking of. You only need to follow some simple security tips and make sure that you have incorporated all these basic things to your Magento store. But before we proceed to the…
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4 Basic Yet Effective WordPress Blogging Tips For Beginners

Wordpress
The WordPress popularity is reaching new heights, as it powers around 22.3% of the topnotch websites. WordPress is today touted to be the best CMS, but you can't ignore the fact that it was designed initially as a blogging platform. And even today WordPress is favored by bloggers around the world, owing to the remarkable blogging capabilities it offers. If you're a neophyte and wish to create your own WP blog, I've come up with 4 handy tips that will help you create a successful blog. 1. Pick the Right Hosting Plan The first and foremost step that helps optimize your WP blog requires selecting the suitable hosting plan. If your blog takes time to load, visitors won't take much time to abandon your blog page, and without further ado…
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Motivate Your Inner Writer Through These Five Awesome Tips

SEO
Motivation plays a vital role when you're writing. Be prepared to deliver utter crap if you're not in the mood to create that next masterpiece of yours. Thus, you have to make sure that you're always driven with a bag full of inspirations. However, knowing that you need to be motivated and actually getting there are two different things. In case you're having problems getting into the mood, the following are five tips on how  to motivate that inner writing spirit of yours! Check them out and write to your heart's content. 1. Focus on your goal and not on the results Always keep in mind that writing is all about sharing your emotions and ideas to your readers. Your goal is to express what's inside of you. Pull that…
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Top 10 iPhone Apps Worth Waiting For in 2014

Mobile Application
Your presence on this blog itself indicates that you're a huge fan of applications & interested in Mobile application Development . Well, the ever-rising demand for innovative iPhone apps has played a pivotal role in encouraging mobile app developers to get involved in iPhone Application Development. iPhone apps have shown an outstanding performance and have been received well by a wide variety of users residing in different corners of the world. In this blog, I'll walk you through 10 brilliant iPhone apps that will definitely create a wave in the mobile app industry in the year 2014. iPhone App#1-Any.do Any.do is a fabulous list-making and task management application.With this app, you can easily review your daily tasks via the help of time and date reminders, geo-location reminders etc. All in…
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Embellish your travel website with these 10 scintillating WordPress Themes

Wordpress
With all the hooh... hah... about travel and tourism industry, it has become a must for every travel agent to own his/her unique promotional website. A well-organized and eye-catchy website can aid in improvising the success rate of a tours and travel organization. In this blog, I walk you through an enticing collection of 10 brilliant WordPress themes that work as the best match for travel websites. Each of these themes reflects both luxury and elegance that form crucial components of every holiday package. So, let's now simply hop onto these 10 beautiful Travel WordPress Themes. Travel WordPress Theme No.1-Magazine Travel Theme Brought to you by Organic Themes, Magazine Travel Theme is built on a fully responsive framework. The best part of this WordPress theme is that it can be…
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Add custom column and get custom renderer value in Magento grid

Magento
This post is helpful to add custom column and get custom renderer value in Magento grid admin. In /app/code/core/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Catalog/Product/Grid.php file. [php] <?php protected function _prepareCollection() { $collection = Mage::getResourceModel($this->_getCollectionClass()); //$collection->getSelect()->join('sales_flat_order_address', 'main_table.entity_id = sales_flat_order_address.parent_id',array('postcode')); // Added my developer //$collection->getSelect()->joinLeft('sales_flat_order_payment', 'main_table.entity_id = sales_flat_order_payment.parent_id','method'); // Added my developer $collection->getSelect()->joinLeft('sales_flat_order_status_history', 'main_table.entity_id = sales_flat_order_status_history.entity_id','comment'); // Added my developer $this->setCollection($collection); return parent::_prepareCollection(); } ?> [/php] [php] <?php protected function _prepareColumns() { /**** start *****/ $this->addColumn('comment', array( 'header' => Mage::helper('sales')->__('comment'), 'index' => 'comment', 'filter' => false, 'sortable' => false, 'renderer' => 'Mage_Adminhtml_Block_sales_Order_Renderer_Red', )); /**** end ******/ } ?> [/php] Make directory called Renderer inside directory where your Grid.php is located and make file Red.php Make class Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Catalog_Product_Renderer_Red extends Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Widget_Grid_Column_Renderer_Abstract [php] <?php class Mage_Adminhtml_Block_sales_Order_Renderer_Red extends Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Widget_Grid_Column_Renderer_Abstract { public function render(Varien_Object $row) { $value = $row->getData($this->getColumn()->getIndex()); return '<span style="color:…
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Attribute dropdown value display in magento products grid

Magento
This post useful to display custom attribute dropdown value in products grid in magento admin. [php] $attribute = Mage::getModel('eav/config')->getAttribute('catalog_product', 'supplier'); $options = array(); foreach( $attribute->getSource()->getAllOptions(true, true) as $option ) { $options[$option['value']] = $option['label']; } $this->addColumn('supplier', array( 'header'=> Mage::helper('catalog')->__('Supplier'), 'width' => '80px', 'index' => 'supplier', 'type' => 'options', 'options' => $options, )); [/php] [JWD-Magento-Development]
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Top 6 Magento Extensions for E-commerce Website Design

Magento
  Magento apps are amongst today's most utilized ecommerce platforms. Aside from solving lots of web store problems, the  apps enable you to store more merchandise with prices and descriptions. Not to mention, there's still tons of many other  possibilities. Magento ecommerce platform also enables small to medium-sized enterprises to produce their web stores  quicker and easier because of the fact that Magento plug-inare completed and developed by skilled developers in the field of  e-commerce and are readily available via Magento Connect marketplace. With magento, you'll have a site that is more  enhanced and efficient. Your customers online will be satisfied once they visit a web-based store that offers them the best browsingand shopping  experience. One more thing to note, Magento modules and extensions are PHP platforms and MySQL database…
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