Magento Remove Discount and Estimated shipping form Checkout page

To remove both Discount and Estimated shipping you need to edit checkout.xml file which is located at /app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/checkout.xml go to line no: 89 comment out the highlighted portion like this <!– <block type=”checkout/cart_coupon” name=”checkout.cart.coupon” as=”coupon” template=”checkout/cart/coupon.phtml”/> <block type=”checkout/cart_shipping” name=”checkout.cart.shipping” as=”shipping” template=”checkout/cart/shipping.phtml”/> –> you are done. If still both the blocks appear clear cache. So finally your checkout page

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Magento Static Blocks

There’s more than one way to skin a hippo and adding CMS static blocks in Magento is no exception. In case you’re unfamiliar with CMS static blocks, they are powerful little buggers in Magento’s admin that allows the site’s administrator to add and control chunks of HTML that can be displayed throughout the site. They’re

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Magento: get skin url, get media url, get base url, get store url

Magento Mage Core, Admin Static Blocks, or Phtml edits are usually includes getting url path such images, javascript, base url, media and store url. There are different ways to retrieve mentioned URL paths depending on where section you’re editing. To Retrieve URL path in STATIC BLOCK To get SKIN URL {{skin url=’images/sampleimage.jpg’}} To get Media

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Magento Category Navigation or Vertical category menu in sidebar

Here are the steps to retrive the category in the sidenbar Step1. PHP Code to retrieve top level categories for navigation and save it at the following location. in short this file contain code related to catalog Navigation Model which retrieves top level categories and show it in proper manner Magento\app\design\frontend\base\default\template\catalog\navigation\categorymenu.phtml Step2. Change the page.xml

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Deleting Order and Customer Data with SQL

During the development and testing process we create different customer and different order in Magento , after the site goes live we need to delete that . So  here are the simple ways to do it with the query below Customer detail can be deleted from the magento admin > Manage Customer. http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/import-export_and_data_manipulation/deleting_order_and_customer_data_with_sql

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