Magento already has a built-in Google sitemap generator. Nevertheless, there is one problem – it is generating a single file which includes all the category, product and CMS page links. But, due to the Google specifications it should not contain more than 50 000 items. So, if your shop is large enough, then your XML sitemap file will be quite big and will cause the error from the crawlers site. That is why, we decided to write an article that describes the extension which generates a sitemap with the index file and numerous sub-files for each type of the pages (products, categories, CMS).

There is no doubt that determining customers location can be quite useful. However, Magento doesn’t have such functionality so far. In this post we decided to show you an example of GeoIP integration into Magento. Moreover, we will use customer location for redirection to a proper store.

Sometimes we face with the necessity of custom data output in Magento admin forms. If you require to render entity data in the admin form other way than stored in the database and standard Magento fieldset types do not match your requirements, this article will help you to create your own fieldset type.

Recently we have described how to create your own OroCRM extension and, even more, how to add a new menu item (see Add a new menu item). Now it is time to move forward. Almost each extension, no matter how big it is, needs to have some settings. Of course, we can put it into an *.yml’. No problem, but OroCRM core developers provide us with a handy ability to create your own settings fields/section on the System->Configuration page.

Group Pricing is a great and flexible instrument for adding product prices for different groups of customers. Magento allows to affect the cost of separate products using group price mechanism for chosen groups. In this case, the product group price allows to set a product price for separate products and, at the same time, we do not need to create many catalog price rules.

PHPUnit testing has become a good practice in PHP development. It can be used for checking the thin and vulnerable places in your code, and spare time for bug tracking and testing during the development progress. Magento itself is quite complicated PHP structure. So, sometimes it is really hard to find a connection between the bug and its reason. We think, it can be really useful practice to perform unit testing during Magento extension development. This brief article is aimed to show the basic structure and approach of using PHP unit tests in Magento.

We’ve prepared step by step guide about how to install OroCRM on Maс. We are highlighting problems that you may face with during an installation process.

Very often the web store is visited by customers from different countries, so, it is really good practice to use multi language feature on the website. As you know, the universal language is English, but what about the customers who are more comfortable with the websites which are using their native language. Therefore, internationalization of your web store can attract new customers, and Magento can help with this because we can use an unlimited number of languages on the website.

This brief article is dedicated to the problem, which Magento developers often have to deal with. From time to time, we need to create some test orders during the work process, but web store owners usually want to remove them. Actually, there are a lot of test orders before web store releasing, and after the custom checkout extensions installation. Sometimes, developers make some test orders after installing new feature, adding cart price rules, enabling or adding custom Magento billing and Magento shipping methods.

Magento TAF is a pretty good thing to automize your Magento store testing. When you start working with Magento TAF, you have many tests, which are ready for use, so this framework can help to develop all kinds of tests without building an automatic infrastructure. Since a TAF users guide is a bit outdated, and some things in the framework have been already changed we’ve decided to write an article on this topic.