E-Commerce Development

If you are using Magento Commerce for your new ecommerce web store and want to change the order id number to something higher, go to your database using phpMyAdmin and open the table eav_entity_store.

Change the value in the increment_last_id to the number you want to use. Save the table and you’re done.

You can check which entity type id belongs to which entity by looking at eav_entity_type table.

Most of the time, we don’t really see the need for the “Add to Wishlist” option in a Magento shopping site, but that may not be the case for you. If it turns out you feel you don’t need the “Add to Wishlist” option, it’s pretty easy to disable.

1. Log into Magento Admin.
2. Go to System Configuration
3. Select the store view you want to modify or you may want to choose to make the change to all stores / views.
4. Scroll down to near the bottom of the page, and under the Advanced section, you’ll see the Advanced tab. Click on that and go down the page and find Mage_Wishlist.
5. Change the status to Disable.
6. Go to the top of the page and click “Save Config”.

You may have to refresh your cache to see the change. These new settings should have disabled the “Add to Wishlist” option in your Magento shopping cart.

I’m not really sure if product tags helps search engine optimization or not. We’ve looked around at various top shopping and ecommerce sites and see that some use the product tags and some don’t.

If you decide you want to not show product tags in your Magento commerce site, the solution is actually quite simple.

1. Log into Magento Admin.
2. Go to System Configuration
3. Select the store view you want to modify or you may want to choose to make the change to all stores / views.
4. Scroll down to near the bottom of the page, and under the Advanced section, you’ll see the Advanced tab. Click on that and go down the page and find Mage_Tag.
5. Change the status to Disable.
6. Go to the top of the page and click “Save Config”.

You may have to refresh your cache to see the change, but that’s all you have to do to remove product tags from Magento ecommerce site.