Miva Merchant SEO Above the Fold Getting the most out of SEO is a Miva Merchant store owner's goal and text above the fold is important. Good Miva Merchant SEO means doing some adjustments to your basic ReadyTheme. If you're using stock Shadows ReadyTheme, here's a small tweak that will mean a lot to your customers and for your SEO. Scot Ranney, September 21, 2018
How to Preview Customer and Other Miva Merchant Emails If you want an easy way to preview Miva Merchant emails, this is for you. Email Preview is a free Miva Merchant module that lets you preview your Miva Merchant customer confirmation, merchant confirmation, and other email templates without having to send any emails or place test orders. Scot Ranney, November 29, 2018
Miva Merchant SEO Checklist Good Miva Merchant SEO requires good SEO habits. This eCommerce SEO checklist will help. SEO is to a website like tires are to cars. You can have all the best plugins and connectors, but if no one visits your site it doesn't matter. This SEO checklist will give you an idea of what you need to take care of to cultivate great organic SEO. Scot Ranney, April 16, 2018
How to Use Lintalist with Miva Merchant Speed up Miva Merchant template coding with Lintalist The Miva Merchant template language is super powerful and lets you do complex coding within page templates. Using Lintalist will speed this process up dramatically. Scot Ranney, February 25, 2019
How to Create a List of Blog Posts Add a blog list to your Miva Merchant global footer or sidebar. Using Scot's Blogger to add a blog list to your Miva Merchant sidebar or global footer is great for SEO and customer interaction. Scot Ranney, December 13, 2017
Miva Con 2019 Some observations from Miva Con 2019 Miva Corporation puts on a very cool convention once a year and this year I thought I'd post a few notes about what they are talking about and what I've seen. Scot Ranney, April 03, 2019
Updating From Version 2 to Version 3 Version 3 has many updates, the most exciting being the ability to create multiple blogs. Version 3 is worth the update but you need to take a few minutes to make a few changes in your templates and other settings as described below. Scot Ranney, October 25, 2018
Scots Blogger Template Snippets and Explanations The main code blocks from the blog template without CSS. The code blocks below are the ones used in the stock templates for Scot's Blogger. If you have altered your template and need to go back, or if you are looking for a way to do something, these will help. Scot Ranney, April 23, 2019
Miva Merchant API: How to Test if a Product is in a Category The Miva Merchant API is a list of functions that you can use in store pages. Have you ever wanted to find out if a product is in a particular category? Here's how you can do that using the ever so nifty Miva Merchant API. Scot Ranney, May 03, 2019
How to Remove the Author Name Sometimes you don't need to display the author in your blog posts. Scot Ranney, May 21, 2019
I Have Old Posts, Where Are the Archives? Having problems with your archives? This should help. Scot's Blogger for Miva Merchant supports archives of old messages, however there are a few situations where the archives might not be listed. See if any of these apply to you if you're having archive issues. Scot Ranney, May 26, 2019
Strange MYSQL Errors Sometimes upgrading from Scot's Blogger version 1 creates some easily fixable issues. Scot Ranney, May 28, 2019
The Number One Miva Merchant SEO Tip Set page titles and category SEO immediately. Miva Merchant is a great storefront but the SEO is not as complete out of the gate as some other eCommerce platforms. Do this first to help SEO. Scot Ranney, June 08, 2019
Edit your CSS as a Miva Merchant Page Edit your CSS files without modules or downloading. Most people edit their Miva Merchant CSS files by downloading them or using a module. There is an alternative that makes editing CSS as easy as editing a store page. Scot Ranney, February 23, 2016
How to Set a "Master" Parent Category for a Product in Miva Merchant Tell Miva Merchant what category to show in the breadcrumbs. Normally a product breadcrumbs will show the category the customer "clicked in" from, however what if you want to show a different category in the breadcrumbs? Scot Ranney, June 19, 2019
Make the "Select" Form Element Easy with Mivascript Create, populate, and select form options the easy way. Using shortcut functions makes your mivascript projects go faster. This function takes the hassle out of the select form element. Scot Ranney, November 21, 2019
How to Make Click-to-Edit Templates Scot's Blogger Click-to-Edit template creation help. If you want your blog authors to create landing pages that don't break while being edited, this click to edit system is for you. Scot Ranney, February 25, 2020
Miva Merchant Error: admin/storemod.mv Any error that shuts your store down is bad. Luckily this one has an easy fix. Just a quick mention of a Miva Merchant admin error that befuddled me for a little while. Scot Ranney, December 12, 2020
Google Analytics 4 Module Installation with Images Set up Google Analytics 4 for Miva Merchant This Google Analytics 4 (GA4) module for Miva Merchant takes the hassle out of enhanced ecommerce tracking. Scot Ranney, December 16, 2020
Miva Merchant Elements CSS Cheat Sheet It takes a while to get used to Elements CSS, this can help. A cheat sheet for Miva Merchant Elements CSS with all CSS elements on one page and in a mostly orderly fashion. Scot Ranney, April 04, 2019
Content Studio Module for Miva Merchant Add rich content to your Miva Merchant store the easy way. Content Studio is a sophisticated rich content module for Miva Merchant with a next generation WYSIWYG editor, logical organization, and easy to use features. Scot Ranney, December 27, 2020
Miva Merchant Custom Fields for Pages Page Meta Fields are the most powerful content feature in Miva Merchant and are rarely used to their full potential. Have you ever wanted custom fields for pages in Miva Merchant? Well, you already have them but they aren't called custom fields. Scot Ranney, December 09, 2020
The Gallery Installation How to install The Gallery for Miva Merchant Scot Ranney, September 06, 2018
Fix Move All to Wish List "Invalid Wish List" Error in Miva Merchant Fix the dreaded "Invalid Wish List" error. There is a bug in current Miva Merchant templates that gives you an "Invalid Wish List" error when a customer without an account tries to move all items in the basket to a wish list. Scot Ranney, June 09, 2021
Google Analytics 4 for Miva Merchant is Easy It's time to update your Miva Merchant store to Google Analytics 4. On July 1, 2023, standard Universal Analytics properties will no longer process data. Now is the time to install the Google Analytics 4 module in your Miva Merchant store. Scot Ranney, May 02, 2023
How To Add Modules to Miva Merchant 10 Adding and installing modules to Miva 10 isn't exactly straight forward but it doesn't have to be frustrating. Miva Merchant 10 is probably the most powerful and customizable ecommerce platform out there. Here's a streamlined discussion on adding and using new modules to your store. Scot Ranney, June 09, 2023
