It’s happened to us all folks, you log onto the admin dashboard you see an new order in the last 5 orders list and automatically think to yourself, “Nice, I have a new order!”. Well hold on a minute, this is not always the case, the order could have be …

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/* Sender Name */
Mage::getStoreConfig(’trans_email/ident_general/name’);
/* Sender Email */
Mage::getStoreConfig(’trans_email/ident_general/email’);

In Magento version 1.6.1.0, I noticed when previewing a transactional email it displayed in html only. Obviously this isnt right so I come up with this little fix.

Recently when trying to modify the success.phtml section in magento, I found it very frustrating the fact you had to make new fake orders to see your modified file. Of course I could have used firebug or some extension like that but I much prefer making modifications and hitting refresh.
After …

Magento by default will choose the logo_email.gif from the default package and default theme. To force it to use the logo_email.gif or any other image from your custom package or theme add the following snippets to your skin url.

 
_package="MyPackageName" _theme="MyCustomThemeName"

Example:

 
{{skin url="images/logo_email.gif" _area=’frontend’ _package="MyPackageName" _theme="MyCustomThemeName"}}

I have recently come across an issue when trying to add a Widget to a CMS page.
When clicking “Insert Widget” a javascript alert appeared shouting El is NULL.
The reason for this is a missing forward slash from Lib/Varien/Data/Form/Element/Editor.php Line 202.
To fix this error copy Lib/Varien/Data/Form/Element/Editor.php to app/code/local/Lib/Varien/Data/Form/Element/Editor.php
app/code/local/Lib/Varien/Data/Form/Element/Editor.php
Line 202 – Replace

‘onclick’ …