Magento allows store owners to sell customizable products (eg. Product with more options to select from).
In this tutorial, we will show you how to:

• Creae a new computer bundle, composed of the following user-selectable options: System Color, Operating System and Monitors.
• Selections (eg. Pure White, Plum Purple) within each Option (eg. System Color) are composed from Simple Products. This means that you have to create your simple products first.
• Pricing is dynamically calculated based on the user selected Option(s), using the Simple Products pricin

If you use configurable products in your Magento store and your super attribute have a lot of options (thousands of options), you can experience the following performance issues:

• Loading time of a configurable product page is more than other pages (especially when Magento cache is disabled)
• When you add a configurable product to store cart, cart page become slow
• When configurable product is added to store cart, all store pages become slow

In this article I will show how to debug such issues and how to fix the speed issue I described above.

Note: Pages load time depends on your server configuration and number of attribute options in your Magento store.

Product view loading time optimization

I started investigation of this issue on product view page. I found “TTT4″ point in the Magento profiler, which take a lot of loading time (in our case 10-15 seconds).
This is a call of _loadPrices() method in the Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Product_Type_Configurable_Attribute_Collection class.

Magento: Get Bestselling products by category and date time

This article will show you how to get best selling products. You will see how to get overall best selling products as well as best selling products by category and by date time range.

Here is the code:-

Get overall Bestselling products

public function getBestsellingProducts()
{
	// number of products to display
	$productCount = 5; 

	// store ID
	$storeId    = Mage::app()->getStore()->getId();       

	// get most viewed products for current category
	$products = Mage::getResourceModel('reports/product_collection')

Here, I will show you the code to get the most viewed products in Magento. The function addViewsCount()filters the products with their views count.

Here is the code:-

Get overall Most viewed products

Get Most viewed products for current category

Get Most viewed products for last 30 days

Hope this helps and thanks for reading.

How to change the product position in the category product listing.

Sounds simple but most of people don’t know how to do it.

Magento allows you to order your products by name or by price when you’re surfing a category.

It also allows you to change the position when you’re sorting by default.