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Our team at Rixxo has been developing and marketing applications for over 10 years. We’ve learned a lot of things the hard way, but we’re always willing to share what we have learned with other developers. Keep checking back as our “how to” library grows!
Why is my Magento 1 site slow and getting slower?
Hi, sorry to hear your Magento 1 site is getting slower. It’s February 2020 and in just a couple of months Magento 1 is being sunsetted (June 2020). This doesn’t mean your site is going to stop working but it does mean there are lots of things going on in the eCommerce world, and the cyber criminal world that are going to…
Magento XML Layout Update Cheatsheet – Brilliant timesaving tips!
A round up of our most recent XML layout updates for Magento 2 posts bringing them all into one easy to bookmark sheet.
How to remove Qty and Add to Cart from product page in Magento 2
If you want to make a product page so somebody cannot add to the basket and remove the Qty and add to cart buttons this is really easy to do with a simple xml update. Use this code in the design xml layout update field on the product to remove the price. You can do it on a product by…
How to remove the price from a product page in Magento 2
Maybe you want customers to call you and you are going to tie this layout update in with a custom message. Maybe the item is out of stock and you don’t know what the price will be when it comes back in. Whatever reason you may have you’ll probably want to hide the price in a Magento store without ringing…
How to add a static block to the main content of a product page in Magento 2
This one is really handy. You may be wondering how to get a banner or block of text to the top of a product page in Magento 2. Create the static block you want to add after the image. When asked to give the block an identifier add something unique this will replace block_indentifier_here in the code below. Use this code to add…
How to add a static block before product images on product page in Magento 2
Ok so this one is pretty much the same as the last one except we’re going to put the image before the product image gallery. Create the static block you want to add after the image. When asked to give the block an identifier add something unique this will replace block_indentifier_here in the code below. Use this code to add the block remembering…
How to add a static block after a product title in Magento 2
Create the static block you want to add after the title. When asked to give the block an identifier add something unique this will replace block_indentifier_here in the code below. Use this code to add the block remembering to change the block identifier and giving the layout update a namespace such as custom.product.title.after Now you just need to style your contents that you’ve…
How to add a static block after product images on product page in Magento 2
Create the static block you want to add after the image. When asked to give the block an identifier add something unique this will replace block_indentifier_here in the code below. Use this code to add the block remembering to change the block identifier and giving the layout update a namespace such as custom.image.after Now you just need to style your contents that you’ve…
How to integrate Chatfuel and Google Sheets using IFTTT
So you have discovered Chatfuel and are making a Facebook bot. How awesome right?! And you’ve seen that it can integrate with Google Sheets. Amazing! Except now you can’t find any instructions on how to easily get data from Chatfuel into Google Sheets without using Zapier. Boo! We’ve written a step-by-step on how to use IFTTT and Chatfuel to get your customer data, signups…
Find emails with no reply automatically in Gmail
I recently found a script that looks through your Gmail and adds a label to all of the emails that haven’t had a reply within a certain time period. As a busy person who sends upwards of 100 emails a day keeping track of everything that needs a response is difficult and this Google script was a treat to find….