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Block countries in CRE Loaded

Updated extension to block specific countries in CRE Loaded. You can find extension on my new blog under CRE Loaded topic

Will be moving to my own domain

Update: From now onwards new posts will be available on http://blog.wasimasif.com, posts on this blog will be moved to new blog and will get deleted from here.

It has been really a good experience to have own blog. WordPress is a nice place to have your blog hosted, yet it restrict installation for plugins, ads etc. So i have decided to move my blog to my own domain and hosting.

Will be using same wordpress software with new blog and get all my posts imported. Will update my new blog domain pretty soon, so keep watching.

Funny bug in msn messenger

Today when I logged in to MSN messenger, I was surprised to see an unfinished welcome screen with sample “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur” text. Also the screen said “September 2008″ while it should be “October 2009″. See the attached screen.

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. I think welcome screen is published directly from designers PC.

Breadcrumb not working, CRE Loaded Pro

The post have been moved to new blog. You can find the fix at http://blog.wasimasif.com/categories-breadcrumb-not-working-cre-loaded-pro/

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How to completely remove a page from Google

Some times we would like to remove a page from Google so it dose not appear in search result.
Common method used is blocking the page in robots.txt file, but this method is not enough and the page url may still appear in search results. Blocking in robots.txt only tells Google not to crawl the page, but if Google finds any links of this page it will show the page link in results based on anchor text and description.

So Google will not crawl the page but still show it in search results.

Whats the solution? Solution is to let Google crawl this page and use following meta tag
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX">

This above meta tag will ensure that google won’t show that page in search results.

What is MySQL?

Well MySQL is full featured, one of the most famous and widely used database server. MySQL is open source it means its free. Being a cross platform server its being used for different OS like Linux, Windows, MAC etc. MySQL features include support for views, stored procedures, replication etc etc.

Most of the free web applications like osCommerce, joomla, magento, durpal etc are using MySQL. MySQL is also being used by large enterprises like Yahoo, Google, FaceBook etc etc.

To see more details visit mysql.com

Got back my CRE Loaded forum password

I have got my cre loaded forum password back from cre loaded live support. In previous posts i mentioned that password forgot page on cre loaded forums was not working and never got any password email.

So as last resort i tried live chat available on cre loaded site, and it worked. I got my password reset in just 5 minutes due to friendly live chat representative.

Bug fix in product listing of CRE Loaded

Today fixed a bug in product listing of cre loaded 6.4.0 pro. Due this bug manufacturer link on certain pages was missing manufacturer id. The bug existed on Special products, New Products and Featured products page.

To fix the issue open file specials.php and find line case 'PRODUCT_LIST_MANUFACTURER':. In line next to it add p.manufacturers_id, after m.manufacturers_name,. This will add manufacturers_id column in selection list. Save the file and test.

You can do same thing in files products_new.php and featured_products.php. Keep following CRE Loaded category to stay updated.

Bug in CRE Loaded Specials page

While working on some site I came across a bug in Special product page. If we have turned manufacturer name on in product listing, the link generated on the name is missing the manufacturer id value. The invalid link created looks like this http://demos.creloaded.com/creloaded_ce/index.php?manufacturers_id= on page https://demos.creloaded.com/creloaded_ce/specials.php.

I found this in cre loaded Pro 6.4.0, but when confirmed it exists in Community edition as well. I guess this issue may exist on other pages like “new products page”.

The manufacturer name can be turned on from Admin > Configuration > Product Listing > Display Product Manufacturer Name.

If you are using SEO URLs addon this bug can cause you a lot because it will generate unwanted link to your home page.

There are two ways of fixing the issue, one is to wait for fix release of which was expected in August but still not here, i am not sure if this bug will be fixed or not. Second fix is simple one follow cre loaded category of this blog so you can get the fix as soon as i post it.

SEO URLs addon for CRE Loaded

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