The Popular Auto Add to Basket/Cart Magento Extension by Iceberg Commerce has gotten even better with more new features!

Our best selling extension now offers the following list of features:

Check it out here

Iceberg Commerce is leading the way, offering a wide range of Widgets that allow you to publish dynamic content on your store's homepage. The only requirement is Magento 1.4 or newer.

With just a few clicks, you can add a listing/grid of products.

But there is more! You can filter products by attributes or categories. Which means you can create landing pages for each manufacturer, product type, etc...

Try it out today - the Product List Plus Widget for Magento.

We also have a free version that allows you to list products by manufacturer only.

The missing piece with the Magento compare has been the ability to create comparison pages similar to how apple presents comparison pages for their MacBook models, ipads models, and iMac models.

Iceberg Commerce has built a great add on to allow you to do just that!

Using the Product Comparison Magento Widget by Iceberg Commerce, you can embed product comparisons and embed them anywhere on your store.

This means that customers no longer have to pick which products to compare. You build the comparison and embed it in your store. Customers and search engines will then have easy access to the information about your top products.

Check out the widget by clicking here.

Magento Widgets have been around since Magento version 1.4.  Using Magento Widgets, you can bring in rich dynamic data on your Homepage, CMS pages, and CMS blocks.

By Default, Magento 1.4 and higher come with widgets that allow you to add cms page links, category page links, product links, embed cms blocks, embed new products, and list recently compared and viewed products.

Iceberg Commerce is leading the way with a wide range of productivity widgets aimed at Magento store owners, managers, content creators.

Using Magento Widgets built by Iceberg Commerce, with just a few clicks you can add the following content anywhere in your store.:

• embed single products
• embed listing of products
• embed listing of product reviews
• embed products comparisons
• embed tagged products
• embed a product search

Here is a quick way to set the page title in the following format:

(Product Name) Review - (Review Title)

In order to do this, open up the following file:

app/code/core/Mage/Review/Block/View.php

Add in the following code:

/**
 * Set Page title
 */
protected function _prepareLayout()
{
    $headBlock = $this->getLayout()->getBlock('head');
    if ($headBlock) 
    {
    	$title = array();
    	if ($product = $this->getProductData()) 
    	{
    		$title[] = $product->getName() . ' Review';
    	}
 
    	if ($review = $this->getReviewData()) 
    	{
    		$title[] = $review->getTitle();
    	}
 
    	$title = implode(' - ', $title);
        $headBlock->setTitle($title);
    }
 
    return parent::_prepareLayout();
}

If you do not want to modify core files, copy this file to:

app/code/local/Mage/Review/Block/View.php

The Magento SEO Product Review URLs Extension by Iceberg Commerce has SEO Friendly URLs for all product review pages in addition to the SEO Friendly Page titles for product reviews that are outlined in this blog.

(1) Select "Checkout as Guest" by default

(2) Select "Ship to this Address" by default

If you notice that most customers use the same billing and shipping address, you may want to select the "Ship to this Address" option by default so that customers can skip the shipping address step.

In order to set these defaults, you need to modify the opcheckout.js file located at:

    frontend/base/default/js/opcheckout.js

(* Note, you may want to move this file to frontend/default/default/js/opcheckout.js and modify it there to avoid modifying core magento code)

Add this code to the end of the initialize function:

 
initialize: function(accordion, urls){
    ...
 
    // Set guest checkout by default
    if ($('login:guest')) $('login:guest').checked=true; 
 
    // Set shipping = billing by default
    if ($('billing:use_for_shipping_yes')) $('billing:use_for_shipping_yes').checked=true; 
},
 

Then refresh your browser cache and test it out.

Keep in mind that when you update Magento, the opcheckout.js file may be different in the new version, so you may have to do this change again.

We have built a simple extension that has made it easier to edit breadcrumbs.  It makes it easy to remove breadcrumbs on some CMS pages and add multi-level breadcrumbs as well.

Here is the link with more information: Custom CMS Breadcrumbs for Magento

Here is a screenshot of the interface that the extension adds to the CMS edit page:

If you only have a small number of CMS pages, then you may just want to edit the layout xml to achieve the same result. To edit the Layout xml, go to a CMS Page then “Design > Layout Update XML” and paste in the following code (you can edit the link,title,name,label of each breadcrumb):

 
<reference name="root">
	<action method="unsetChild"><alias>breadcrumbs</alias></action>
 
	<block type="page/html_breadcrumbs" name="breadcrumbs" as="breadcrumbs">
		<action method="addCrumb">
			<crumbName>Home</crumbName>
			<crumbInfo>
				<label>Home</label>
				<title>Home</title>
				<link>/</link>
			</crumbInfo>
		</action>
		<action method="addCrumb">
			<crumbName>Crumb 1</crumbName>
			<crumbInfo>
				<label>Crumb 1</label>
				<title>Crumb 1</title>
				<link>/crumb1</link>
			</crumbInfo>
		</action>
		<action method="addCrumb">
			<crumbName>Crumb 2</crumbName>
			<crumbInfo>
				<label>Crumb 2</label>
				<title>Crumb 2</title>
			</crumbInfo>
		</action>
	</block>
</reference>
 

We use this feature for:

• Allowing us to default options to the most popular options to save customers those extra few clicks
• Lets us display search and category listings with all our available color options - just like Zappos!

Our Solution

To add this feature to our stores, we developed an extension that we are currently using internally. It adds radio buttons on the product edit page beside configurable options, allowing you to specify a default value.  Then on the frontend, there is logic to set the correct values in the product option dropdowns.  We were able to do this without any modification to core code.

The default behavior in Magento for configurable products is for the options to default to “Choose an option”.  There is no way to specify a default value to automatically be selected.

This extra feature we added lets us default options to any value we want. Another added benefit is that we can list products like popular online sites like Zappos.  We wanted the ability to list products on category and search grids in all available colors.  To do this, we create a configurable product for each color.  Then for each of the configurable products, we set a different default color. This way, a customer has the ability to see all colors on the product page, and they can still switch to any other color they desire.  Check it out here.

Update August 24 / 2010 - We have made this into an extension
Available Here.
The extension does not modify any core code, is very high quality code, and tested thoroughly.

Here are some screenshots:

1. Editing a configurable product, we can set the default value for an option by clicking a radio button:

2. When a customer goes to a product, they see this default option selected for them:

An Alternative Javascript Method

If you don’t have many products, there is a way to get the same type of behavior using a javascript “hack”.

This snippet of code, can be placed on a product page and it will select the first value for each configurable option. With a little modification, you can modify it so that it selects a specific option.

 
function fireEvent(element,event)
{
	if (document.createEventObject)
	{
		// dispatch for IE
		var evt = document.createEventObject();
		return element.fireEvent('on'+event,evt);
	}
	else
	{
		// dispatch for firefox + others
		var evt = document.createEvent("HTMLEvents");
		evt.initEvent(event, true, true ); // event type,bubbling,cancelable
		return !element.dispatchEvent(evt);
	}
}
 
Event.observe(window, 'load', function() {
	var spConfigIndex = 0; 
	for (spConfigIndex=0; spConfigIndex<spConfig.settings.length; ++spConfigIndex)
	{
		spConfig.settings[spConfigIndex].selectedIndex = 1;
	    obj = spConfig.settings[spConfigIndex]; // this grabs the first select item
	    Event.observe(obj,'change',function(){});
	    fireEvent(obj,'change'); // this simulates selecting the first option, which triggers
	}
}); 
 

 
function fireEvent(element,event)
{
	if (document.createEventObject)
	{
		// dispatch for IE
		var evt = document.createEventObject();
		return element.fireEvent('on'+event,evt);
	}
	else
	{
		// dispatch for firefox + others
		var evt = document.createEvent("HTMLEvents");
		evt.initEvent(event, true, true );
		return !element.dispatchEvent(evt);
	}
}
 
function setDefaultConfigOptions()
{
	if (spConfigIndex >= spConfig.settings.length)
	{
		return; // stop
	}
 
	spConfig.settings[spConfigIndex].selectedIndex = 1;
	var obj = spConfig.settings[spConfigIndex];
 
	++spConfigIndex;
 
	Event.observe(obj,'change',function(){});
	fireEvent(obj,'change');
 
	window.setTimeout("setDefaultConfigOptions()", 1); // Add a small delay before moving onto the next option
}
 
var spConfigIndex = 0;
Event.observe(window, 'load', function() {
	setDefaultConfigOptions();
}); 
 

The javascript hack above would have been too time consuming for us to use on a live store (too many products and too many options being changed over time).  That is why we decided to add this extra feature to our stores. Our store managers love it.

If you want to remove the Checkout buttons from the top of your Magento Cart page, here are 2 ways to do this .

(1) Remove the checkout buttons using Layout XML.

<checkout_cart_index>
    <remove name="checkout.cart.top_methods" />
</checkout_cart_index>

(2) Just hide the buttons using CSS

.checkout-cart-index .title-buttons .checkout-types {display:none}

If you want to remove only Google Checkout and/or Paypal Express buttons from the top of the Magento Cart Page, you can use the following Layout XML

<checkout_cart_index>
    <reference name="checkout.cart.top_methods">
        <action method="unsetChild"><name>checkout.cart.methods.googlecheckout</name></action>
        <action method="unsetChild"><name>checkout.cart.methods.paypal_express</name></action>
    </reference>
</checkout_cart_index>

The problem occurs when a customer selects PayPal Express, makes payment on the PayPal site, and then completes the transaction on your Magento store. The error the customer sees is “This payment cannot be processed using your PayPal account at this time.”, however the payment is processed successfully and shows up in your PayPal account.

To fix this, open up app/code/core/Mage/Paypal/Controller/Express/Abstract.php and comment out some code in the placeOrderAction function

(For a cleaner fix, copy the file to app/code/local/Mage/Paypal/Controller/Express/Abstract.php and then make changes to the new file)

public function placeOrderAction()
{
    try {
 
        ....
 
//        if ($url = $this->_checkout->getRedirectUrl()) {
//            $this->getResponse()->setRedirect($url);
//            return;
//        }
 
        ...
    }
}

The response object from PayPal is returning this on the final placeOrder step:

[SUCCESSPAGEREDIRECTREQUESTED] => true

This means that the Magento store thinks it should redirect back to PayPal to finalize the order, however it does not need to redirect.

This fix has been tested on Magento 1.4.0.1, Magento 1.4.1.1

It has also been confirmed to work with PayPal Pro accounts (Both PayPal USA and PayPal Canada Pro Accounts)