Easily manipulation of your Magento store

As I’ve mentioned before, although Magento is a top platform, getting to understand it can be tricky.  For people who are impatient, it certainly isn’t the way forward - because a store cannot simply be knocked up in two seconds (unlike a WordPress blog, for instance).

Installation is difficult, learning the architecture can take some time, and even when you think you’ve got to grips with it, you’ll find yourself surfing through the forums looking for answers to questions every two minutes!

A common query that people are bringing up on the Magento forums is regarding finding the templates in order to edit your Magento theme - the FTP folder hierarchy makes this challenging to say the least! This can easily be solved by going into your Admin area and clicking System > Configuration > Select your site > Developer tab > Template Path Hints (change to Yes).   If you action this, you’ll then see what templates are populating your Magento site by visiting your home page - every different template that makes up your site is highlighted and the path is named for you… saves lots of messing about!

However - another handy tip, on the same section of your Admin, why not enable ”Translation Inline”.  This feature is even better, as you can literally edit the text “live” on your web-site, which means you don’t even need to FTP in and find the theme, you can simply change the textual elements of the site via your browser!  Now doesn’t that make it easier!

View the Translate Inline Video Tutoiral here