Before going into details with Tips and Tricks for Magento Development, we are going to be introducing you with Magento. Magento is an open-source content management system for eCommerce Websites. This CMS is developed by the Varien Inc (US private company in California). Magento CMS is written in PHP. The Launch date of Magento is 31st March 2008.

Tips and Tricks for Magento Development

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After the launch of this CMS growth of ecommerce website in Magento is increasing in rapidity. Magento is very easy to use and Search Engine Optimization of the Magento website is also very good as compare to others. Here, we are going to share with you some Tips and Tricks regarding Magento Development.

  1. Generic Magento CSS Classes: Magento is famous for its extension and plugin, because of you can get every plugin and extension according to your requirement in Magento. Default Magento installation is defined within in thousands of classes of CSS. You must use generic Magento CSS classes because they never give compatibility issue, which is best for your extension and plugins.
  2. Save your codes into Document: Whenever you write any code, you must save all that codes into a document file or in a notepad. That saved codes provides you backup for the future.
  3. Using app/code/local/mage to Override Core Files: Never override Magento Core Files in app/code/local/mage, because it causes problem in the future when you upgrade your theme or version of Magento.
  4. Logging Behavior of Extension: If you want to get the benefits of Magento Extension you need to log its behavior. You can do this by enabling logging in the admin>system>configuration>developer>debug and you can own your log with code. This feature also allows you to get faster speed.
  5. Admin Session Lifetime: Most of the time when you spend time in editing a product description and when you click on the save button your time is out. This happens due because your admin session is too low. You can fix it by following these steps: go to system>config>admin>security>session lifetime. Then set a value above than 3600 second, so you don’t get logged out of the admin every 60 minutes.
  6. Nested Static Blocks: Static blocks are useful for dividing up different types of data blocks and also helping to simplify content updates. Nest several static blocks into one block with the help of widgets and that called category or product page.
  7. Admin Actions Log: This feature is very helpful in diagnosing any issue and it also allow you to choose which action you want to record in the log files as they happen. You can also do this: go to system>admin action log, then select the check boxes next to any actions you want to log.
  8. Customer Group Pricing: This feature allows to you to set different price of the product for different type of customers (Retails, VIP, Wholesale and staff group).
  9. Product Alerts Notification: This feature helps the customers to get each and every information about the product. You get notification like, which product comes back in stocks or which product goes on sale and which product have more discounts.

  10. Manage Rating: This feature of Magento allows you to add reviews and rating feature in the product. This thing increase the sale of the product. It can done by, go to catalog>reviews &rating>manage rating, then add/enable star rating criteria.

WordPress, Drupal, Joomla these CMS is also very good, but Magneto is especially design for the eCommerce Websites.