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Shortcodes, popularized by WordPress, is a technique which makes it easy to insert dynamic content into your page. It help you generate product url alias, add video or even load a modules in your content with a pieces of code. It’s an easy task for us to add products link […]

OpenCart is one of the simplest and loveliest e-commerce platforms. In this blogpost we want to showcase a detailed step-by-step guide of the necessary steps you need to take in order to migrate your OpenCart store to a new server. Setting up our station Before we begin with our guide, […]

Welcome to the first installment of Getting Started with OpenCart! This series assumes that the reader has completed installing a fresh OpenCart store. We will provide a thorough guide for successfully setting up your first OpenCart store so that it is fully operational. If you are new to OpenCart, we […]

OpenCart use the same template for 404 Not Found and the “empty” notification, it’s not_found.tpl. For OpenCart 1.5.6, this “not found” template is called from 10 controllers. The real not found with 404 return header is only from error/not_found controller. Other controller use it to show “no products in category”, […]

If you use OpenCart v1.5.5 or v1.5.6 you might have noticed that in the admin editor (for product description, category description, information pages content and so on) there are missing some essential buttons. It’s because start from v1.5.5 OpenCart has updated the html editor it uses (CKEditor) to its latest […]

Have you always wanted to hide all other shipping methods when “Free Shipping” is active, so it’s the only shipping choice that appears? You can do so with two simple code edits, as detailed below. In OpenCart versions 1.5.2 - 1.5.5, perform these core file modifications: IN BOTH: BEFORE: ADD: […]

Do you want a second (or third, or fourth) flat rate for your site’s shipping? OpenCart doesn’t include a shipping method that allows for multiple flat rates by default, but you can easily set up multiple flat shipping options using the built-in Weight Based Shipping extension. 1. In System > […]

What is page caching? How can I improve my website’s loading speed? That would usually be the question that brought you here. In this quick tutorial, we will explain what is page caching and how we can achieve it using PHP. However, for this tutorial, we will not be providing […]

OpenCart v.1.5.5 come with new option to resize images based on the width or height. With this new approach, we can avoid the white space around image. Force to zoom and crop them by set the fourth parameter of resize function; based on the image width or height. Image resize […]

Sometimes we want to show simple pagination at a place where visitor able to recognise it at glance. The idea is to put simple pagination at product filter bar at category page, beside the sort by and limit filter. Simple pagination will show the current page, total page and next […]