Magento bugs and fixes
READ ALL THE POST FIRST DON’T JUST JUMP IN. I recently ran into a problem with the magento extension Phoenix’s Worldpay. The install went smoothly but after setting the extension up I was receiving an error SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry ‘3-2’ for key 1 this was highlighted in the […]...
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Magento design
There are good reasons why you might want to do this. Such as including a Google map of your shops location in the home page. If you do this by embedding Google’s code in the CMS page then everytime you load the page to edit it you will need to re add the map code. […]...
Magento bugs and fixes
We recently got an error on a clients magento site after they changed their ip address. We had already added the new ip to sagepay live but it didn’t work. How did we fix it. firstly Go to System > Configuration > Checkout > Payment Failed Emails and copy your email address into […]...
Magento Extensions
Have you ever thought of what it would be like if you could run your Magento shop directly from your Sage line 50 software? The good news is that you can. You can control your magento products, orders and account information all from within Sage line 50. To find out more about how it all […]...
Magento Security
When you install Magento the admin access directory is set to site_admin. This makes it very easy for a hacker to find the admin access area. To change this to make it more difficult navigate to /app/etc using your favorite ftp program or your access panel. Then download local.xml. Open local.xml in a text editor […]...
Speed up Magento
Magento is without doubt one of the best most respected e-commerce platforms. If you’re new to e-commerce and want to start trading then Magento offers you a vast array of highly useful tools straight out of the box. When it comes to hosting Magento you need lots of memory and disk space so cheap […]...
Speed up Magento
If you’re looking to speed up Magento you can find lots of posts around the web that can help you acheive it. Before you start we recomend you visit https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights Google have provided this development tool to show you issues with your site setup. Here’s a really nice one that helps though. […]...
Magento Security
Recently a serious vulnerability in the Zend Framework on which Magento is built was spotted. This note provides information on how you can access and install a patch that solves this issue. The Issue The vulnerability potentially allows an attacker to read any file on the web server where the Zend XMLRPC functionality is enabled. […]...
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