Google Analytics is a free Google service which allows the webmasters and web site administrators to monitor their web sites’ traffic and conversion ratio.

Magento supports two types of tracking:

1-Page View Tracking: Lists the origin from which your web store visitors linked to your store.

2-E-commerce Tracking: Lists the customers that make purchases and what they buy.

First you need to sign up at http://www.google.com/analytics/sign_up.html. You will receive a Google Analytics account number. Write it down since you will need it for the Magento configuration.

Then configure the Google Analytics tracking in Magento. Open the Magento Admin area and navigate to System->Configuration->Sales->Google API.

Pick the Yes option from the Enable drop-down menu. Enter the Google Analytics account number in the Account number field. Click on the Save Config button.

That’s all.

Enjoy!!

How to set SSL in Magento

To set up SSL in Magento, start by obtaining an SSL certificate from a trusted Certificate Authority (CA).

Once you have the certificate, install it on your server. In Magento, navigate to Stores > Configuration > General > Web, and under the Secure section, set Use Secure URLs on Storefront and Use Secure URLs in Admin to “Yes.” This ensures that both the frontend and backend of your store are served over HTTPS.

Additionally, update the base URLs by changing Base URL and Base URL for Secure URLs to use HTTPS instead of HTTP.

Lastly, configure your web server (Apache or Nginx) to force HTTPS by redirecting all HTTP traffic to HTTPS. After completing these steps, clear Magento’s cache and reindex the data to ensure that the changes take effect properly.

This will ensure a secure connection, providing encryption for sensitive customer data during transactions.

Get Magento URL paths of skin, Media, JS, Base and Store URL in CMS pages. There are different ways to retrieve mentioned URL paths depending on where section you’re editing.

To Retrieve URL path in STATIC BLOCK

To get SKIN URL
{{skin url=’images/sampleimage.jpg ‘}}

To get Media URL
{{media url=’/sampleimage.jpg’}}

To get Store URL
{{store url=’mypage.html’}}

To get Base URL
{{base url=’yourstore/mypage.html’}}

To Retrieve URL path in PHTML
Note: In editing PHTML don’t forget to enclode the following code with PHP tag

Not secure Skin URL
<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl(‘images/sampleimage.jpg’) ?>

Secure Skin URL
<?php echo $this->getSkinUrl(‘images/ sampleimage.gif’, array(‘_secure’=>true)) ?>

Get Current URL
$current_url = Mage::helper(‘core/url’)->getCurrentUrl();

Get Home URL
$home_url = Mage::helper(‘core/url’)->getHomeUrl();

Get Magento Media URL
Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_LINK);
Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_MEDIA);

Get Magento Skin URL
Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_SKIN);

Get Magento Store URL
Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_WEB);

Get Magento Js URL
Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_JS);

How to display new products on home page in Magento

Go to “CMS – Manage Pages” and select “Home Page” from the list of pages.

Use this code snippet into your design page layout on your front page:

<reference name=”content”>
<block type=”catalog/product_new” name=”home.catalog.product.new” alias=”product_new” template=”catalog/product/new.phtml” after=”cms_page”>
<action method=”addPriceBlockType”><type>bundle</type><block>bundle/catalog_product_price</block>
<template>bundle/catalog/product/price.phtml</template></action></block>
</reference>

Note : You must have some new products in your catalogue for anything to show when you do this. In this context new doesn’t mean that you’ve recently added them; only products explicitly marked as new using ‘Set Product as New from Date’ and ‘Set Product as New to Date’ options in the ‘General’ product information page in the admin tool will be shown.