Category Archives: Virtuemart

UPDATE: 2012/09/17 The development team at VirtueMart just committed our patch for this problem. So the fix below works perfectly, and when you upgrade to VirtueMart 2.0.12 it will be applied for you as part of the upgrade. As we … Continue reading

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As we upgraded a Virtuemart 2 site for one of our clients, we realized the state field in the front end user editor is not required. This is especially a problem for US sites where the state field is used to … Continue reading

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While upgrading a site from VirtueMart 1.1 to VirtueMart 2, we found a handful of product descriptions cut off at about 1500 characters. Upon looking at the database schema, we realized the column had been changed from a text field … Continue reading

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As we were setting up Virtuemart 2 for one of our clients we ran into a problem. When adding products to the cart there was no popup to alert us we had added items and the cart module wasn’t updated … Continue reading

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As we upgrade clients to Virtuemart 2 we ran into a small problem where there is no default country on the checkout page even after the shop is all setup. There is an easy way to fix this problem and … Continue reading

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As I said in my previous post on how to fix your featured products the migration tools for moving to Virtuemart 2 while saving us much time and work occasionally miss something. One of the problems a we experienced while … Continue reading

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Upgrading your virtuemart site from 1.1.x to virtuemart 2 is a big undertaking. Thankfully the developers for virtuemart have provided us with a great migration tool that helps bring most of your content over with very little effort. If one … Continue reading

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If you have never needed a Joomla! shopping cart, finding a good one your very first try can be difficult and waste a lot of time. Skip to the very end for the conclusion, if you’re not interested in the full details. … Continue reading

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In one of our latest projects we migrated a client from Virtuemart 1.0 to Virtuemart 1.1. The migrate went pretty well although we did come across a bug where users and orders were duplicated in the back end of Virtumart. … Continue reading

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