Useful articles about Miva Merchant, Miva Merchant SEO, Miva Scripting, general eCommerce best practices, Miva Merchant module information, and more. We've also posted some Miva Script tutorials, guides, and downloads. This blog is run by Scot's Blogger, a Wordpress style Miva Merchant module.

Miva Merchant Shadows Modals Made Simple

Untangle the mysteries of making popup modals in the Miva Merchant Shadows CSS framework.

There are times you want the customer to click on something and see a popup modal with information in it. Modals in Shadows are easy to make, but can be confusing at first.

Scot Ranney, February 28, 2026

Miva Merchant Shadows/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, February 28, 2026

New Module: Index Now

Index Now automatically submits store URLs to the indexing service that Bing uses.

Store owners know that the faster new products are indexed by search engines the better. This module submits your URLs to IndexNow.org which means that search engines crawl your links significantly faster than normal.

Scot Ranney, February 27, 2026

Mivascript 101: The miva_splitstring(..) Function With Examples

miva_splitstring(..) is a relatively new Mivascript function and one of the most useful.

Use miva_splitstring(..) to quickly take any delineated list and turn it into a Mivascript array. What used to take two or three lines of code now takes one line of code.

Scot Ranney, February 13, 2025

Miva Merchant Precision Price Display Problem and How To Fix It

The Miva Merchant 10.11.01 update adds precision pricing for those who need it... and for those who don't. Here's how to fix your price display until the next update.

The new precision weight/pricing feature for Miva Merchant is a good thing if you're selling screws and need to show smaller than .01 prices. The problem is that precision pricing is affecting everyone who uses discounts, not just people using precision weight.

Scot Ranney, December 06, 2024

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