Import export of Dynamic Category Product Rules has arrived!

A recent update to the Dynamic Category Products Extension allows you to mass-update all/any product attributes, after a product was placed in the category.

This feature will help / allow you to get you imported products attributes better set, with more relevant data.

The latest new feature in the Gift Promotion extension, is the ability to generate (and email) coupons on the following customer actions:

Newsletter Subscription
Account Create
Birthdays

Recently, the Google Product Feed for one of my clients simply stopped working (sporadically)

Investigation revealed timeout issues happening during the feed, even though the feed was allowed to run for hours, via settings and code. The problem seemed to occur more often than not, making for poor service on updating their Google Merchant Centre products.

Dynamic Category Products to the rescue! 

A recent task was to integrate a client website with Airbrake.

Simple enough task, sicne Airbrake supplies a working magento module via github: https://github.com/airbrake/Airbrake-Magento

Unfortunately, integration was not as simple as initially thought, due to the Airbrake module and my own Newrelic module clashed in regards to the magento log stream writer. 

Ever wanted to create a Gift Promotion for your store to which the customer can add any product, from a specific category, and that item will be gifted (or half price, or any price for that matter)

The latest feature from ProxiBlue Gift Promotions can do exactly that!

Would it not be nice to display products to a given category, if said products belong to a given list of categories?

From version 4.26.0, of our Dynamic Catgeory Products, you can do just that!

One of our clients was so happy with the outcome of their usage of our Dynamic Category Products extension, they decided to write a not so small review. It was too big to fit into the review aea, so I decided to make it a blog entry.

Thank you for the awesome review Chris.

Recently I had an issue regarding a site that runs 2 stores, but shared the same ROOT category between the stores, but had seperate categories per store (categories are enabled at store level)

The problem is that the integrated search service ( Algolia ) woudl index all products to all sites. The issue is that you could then search products in one store from another. This is not wnated, as they do have seperate products.

The only reason they sahre a root catalog is that all products do actually belong to both stores, which facilitates the ability to swap between stores, and retain products in cart from each store. So in effect you can checkout in either store with another stores products.

Search, however shoudl not be cross-site

I turned our dumb, 15 year old, split cycle Air-Conditioning unit into a SMART Unit by adding some home Automation via Sensibo

Sensibo was super easy to install, and within no time at all, I had full control over our Air-Conditioning requirements. Sensibo was SMART, and even integrated with IFTTT (IF This Then That) which opend a whole world of automation possibilities.

Life felt great. Life felt smart. I felt smart, until.......