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Magento has lots of blocks that display in the left and right columns (based on your layout). Changing the order in which they are displayed or sorted is easy. Navigate to the folder “app\design\frontend\default\YOUR_THEME\layout”. In this folder, there are several XML files which are called Layouts.

Magento Layouts are the tools with which you can assign content blocks to each structural block you create. Layout exists in the form of XML text-file and by modifying the layout you are able to move blocks around in a page and assign templates to the content blocks to produce markup for the structural blocks.

Add Magento static blocks to your page easily! Simply copy this line of code below where you want the static block to appear and change the ‘identifier’ to the identifier of the static block you created. That’s it!

Deleting your test orders currently requires running a script directly on your Database. Make sure you fully backup your database before doing anything! This script will delete all orders in the database and reset all order counters!

If you ever needed to retrieve the path to your theme folder, you can easily do this by calling this function:

The code above will return something similar to: http://www.yoursite.com/skin/frontend/default/default/

Anyone needing to retrieve the base URL path from Magento, just place this one line of code and there you have it! Hope this helps someone.

Magento is the open-source eCommerce solution that promises to revolutionize the industry. It’s modular architecture and unprecedented flexibility means your business is no longer constrained by your eCommerce platform. Magento is total control.

It provide the scalability, flexibility and features for business growth. Magento provides feature-rich eCommerce platforms that offer merchants complete flexibility and control over the presentation, content, and functionality of their online channel.