Fastostyle

Using SSH, go to the root directory of your Magento installation.

./pear install magento-core/Mage_All_Latest

Then

./pear upgrade-all

Then log in to your admin section, and refresh all caches.

We are excited to announce the availability of Magento CE Version 1.4.1.0 Stable for upgrade and download.

Some of the highlights of this release include: Enhanced PayPal integration (more info to follow), Change of Database structure of the Sales module to no longer use EAV, and much more.

To see a full list of features and fixed issues please visit our release notes page. Diff files are available here.

Please Note:  Since Database upgrade from EAV to flat sales might be a very heavy operation and can take up to several hours depending on number of orders and environment, please make sure to test the upgrade on a non-production environment and make sure the max_execution_time PHP option has appropriate large value that can handle this operation. We do NOT recommend upgrading a production installation of Magento directly. Please backup database and all files before upgrading. Please make sure to check file permissions before trying to upgrade through your Magento Connect Manager.We highly recommend disabling Magento cache before upgrading.

The Good Stuff :

• Site is looking great, with improved layout and navigation.
• The main site is running on the T3 Framework 2.
• Member area is more user friendly now.
• We can now get back to routine works and get the pending stuff cleared.
• My guys can take haircut now , they have over grown them, while working on Portal upgrade.

• The old horse (old site) is put to rest, it worked non-stop for the past 5 years. Rest in peace my friend, you drove us through our good & bad times.

JM Anion

JoomlArt Magento theme for May is coming, it's JM Anion! Anything about theaters, DVD, HD trailers, movie times etc., are right in JM Anion. Let's go big to make an internet movie database like imdb, or movies.com as a source for movies news and reviews...

When the theme is downloaded, you should uncompress it and upload the theme and the Skin folders of the Magento installation through FTP under the corresponding locations:

magento_folder/app/design/frontend/default/

and

your_magento_folder/skin/frontend/default/

Then the two folders should be renamed to match. As an example we will install the Modern theme. The names of the folders are modern-theme and modern-skin. They both have been uploaded to the respective locations and renamed to modern. Because the installation of the script was performed in the public_html/magento folder, the corresponding locations are:

public_html/magento/app/design/frontend/default/modern/

and

public_html/magento/skin/frontend/default/modern/

When you upload the folders, navigate to your Magento admin area -> System -> Configuration -> Design. Click on the option Themes and enter the name of the theme in the Default, Layout, Templates and Skin fields. Picture Click on the button [Save] to install your new Magento theme.

JM Norite

JoomlArt is pleased to announce April Magento theme JM Norite. The grid base approach helps us to go beyond a notable balance design, impressively lift up arrangement of selective color sets - default, blue, red, green, light.

Dramatically, e-commerce landscape will be more demanding, consumers might need a variety of new tools to discover and buy products online. Such prospect is possible with JM Norite, building up from core Magento platform plus with JoomlArt's self-developed addons, i.e. JM Product Slideshow, JM Product and JM RSS modules.

JA Norite

JoomlArt's April Joomla! template - JA Norite is now coming, with 04 light and 04 dark themes.

We integrate JA Comment (trial version) with K2, honestly it's not a wow! new comment stuff, but quite handy to monitor feedback interaction, help to stay connected and engage with your site audience. Check out the JA Comment in dark and white here to explore theme overwrite possibility and more meaningful features.

Form not working after upgrade

It is a theme update thing. Replace yourtheme/yourtheme/templates/contacts/form.phtml with new base/default/templates/contacts/form.phtml

Or

Magento comes with built in function for retrieving URL paths. Function is called getBaseUrl() and its located under Mage class. However, function is not documented as it should be. Documentation only states that function retrieves $type parametar which is by default equal to “base”.

UPDATED: Included the following alternative method to add a home link with functional active state to the menu bar.

Add Home Link with functional active state to Menu Bar (Alternative Method)

Find the file called top.phtml in app/design/frontend/default/yourtheme/template/catalog/navigation/ and make the following change:

<div class="header-nav-container">
 <div class="header-nav">
 <h4 class="no-display"><?php echo $this->__('Category Navigation:') ?></h4>
 <ul id="nav">
 <!-- ALTERNATIVE HOME BUTTON HACK -->
 <li class="home"><a href="/<?php echo $this->getUrl('')?>"><?php echo $this->__('Home') ?></a></li>
 <!-- ALTERNATIVE HOME BUTTON HACK -->
 <?php foreach ($this->getStoreCategories() as $_category):?>
 <?php echo $this->drawItem($_category) ?>
 <?php endforeach ?>
 </ul>
 </div>
 <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('topLeftLinks') ?>
 </div>

Add the following to the menu.css file in skin/frontend/default/yourtheme/css/. This example is for a CMS home page which uses cms-home class in its body tag.