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To do this first I enable the block outlining so I will be able to determine which layout and block a box is located.
To remove these boxes using the xml layout config files, you have to open and change 2 files
1.) For Compare Products Box open: app/design/frontend/default/youttheme/layout/catalog.xml
Search for the keyword compare and you will hit 2 lines, comment all of these if you don't want any instance of compare.
2.) For Recently Viewed Box open: open: app/design/frontend/default/youttheme/layout/reports.xml and comment this line:
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Remove Compare Products and Recently Viewed Boxes on Magento
To do this first I enable the block outlining so I will be able to determine which layout and block a box is located.
To remove these boxes using the xml layout config files, you have to open and change 2 files
1.) For Compare Products Box open: app/design/frontend/default/youttheme/layout/catalog.xml
Search for the keyword compare and you will hit 2 lines, comment all of these if you don't want any instance of compare.
<block type="core/template" before="cart_sidebar" name="catalog.compare.sidebar" template="catalog/product/compare/sidebar.phtml"/>
<block type="catalog/product_compare_list" name="catalog.compare.list" template="catalog/product/compare/list.phtml"/>
2.) For Recently Viewed Box open: open: app/design/frontend/default/youttheme/layout/reports.xml and comment this line:
<block type="reports/product_viewed" before="right.permanent.callout" name="right.reports.product.viewed" template="reports/product_viewed.phtml" />
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After we have successfuly setup our magento store, we've been testing its functionality and found out that email to a friend is not working properly. The product link and image are missing. What we did: 1.) After checking the controller for sendfriend,...
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How to Export Magento Products 1.) login to the magento admin 2.) go to System->Import/Export->Profiles 3.) select Export All Products 4.) select Run Profile and on the middle-right click the "Run Profile in Popup", this will open a new tab...
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The best way to compare 2 Date objects using javascript is to get its long equivalent. For example we have a date in this format: mm-dd-yyyy and we want to compare them. We will declare the javascript function this way: function compareDate(a, b) { var...
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