Changing the admin route for security reasons (Magento 1)

One step towards making your shop more secure is to change the default admin route from http://www.your-shop.com/admin to something more secure and less guessable. The route must be changed in app/etc/local.xml.

After adding that to your app/etc/local.xml file, clear…

Adding comments to fields in admin area (Magento 1)

It is possible and helpful to add comments to the Magento admin fields. Take a look at the following picture: To add a field and a comment, open your modules system.xml and add the below XML:

Making custom options available in quote in admin area (Magento 1)

Sometimes, when adding custom options to a quote in ther admin area, the custom options are not available. To avoid that problem, simply add the custom options to your modules config.xml, like this: