The Magento Expert

Solving the “Required parameter ‘theme_dir’ was not passed” error

Mex — Mon, 08 May 2017 08:49:26 +0000

The Required parameter ‘theme_dir’ was not passed is most likely caused by an invalid theme table in your database.

Solution: Open the theme table and delete all rows that refer to a theme that does not exist.

Changing the title tag of the home page or any CMS page

Mex — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:07:58 +0000

Magento automatically adds the defined suffix to the title tag on every page. If you want to change that for lets say the home page, open the CMS page “home” and add the following XML to the layout section:


    title... Title Tag ...

Adding a static block to the sidebar

Mex — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:12:23 +0000

Using the folowing layout update, you can add a static block to the left sidebar:



    
        STATIC_BLOCK_ID

Removing the breadcrumb navigation on all pages

Mex — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 07:13:57 +0000

Create a local copy of \app\design\frontend\base\default\layout\page.xml and remove or comment the following line:

Changing the column count for the upsell product area programmatically

Mex — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:17:08 +0000

To change the Magento upsell product areas column count programmatically, use the following code:

$this->setColumnCount(4);

Removing estimated shipping from cart

Mex — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:54:09 +0000

To remove the estimated shipping block from the Magento cart, you have to add the below code, or, if the checkout_cart_index handle already exists, simply add the checkout.cart section to it.