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Review of Customer Paradigm: Emergency Magento Support
Customer Paradigm Review Reviewed by Tina Sanford on Oct 10, 2015. Summary: "The entire team was extremely responsive and got us up and running quickly. I’m very happy with the results and the suggestions for upgrading and securing our site from further hacks. I would...
Magento Bug: Magento Customer Create Date Juxtaposition
Magento Bug Report Summary: The Customer Account Creation Date is often wrong (i.e. Customer Account Create Date is in the past or future). Magento versions affected: Magento Community 1.8, 1.9; Magento Enterprise 1.12, 1.13, 1.14 Description of the Magento Bug: We’ve...
Understanding Meta Robot Tags
The meta robot tags are used as part of the html code on a website and are created to tell search engines to not crawl specific parts of a website or an entire page. There are different ways you can use them and apply them. By default, major search engines index and...
Keyword Research to Optimize Success
Keyword research is a way to find and examine words that people are searching on engines such as Google and identify the best ones to optimize a website for in order to better target the website and rank better on the search results page. A customer’s purpose is to...
New Magento Security Patches
The e-commerce business is growing at a very fast rate and it is important to keep your sites protected. They include very sensitive customer data that, if stolen, can be devastating not only to the consumer but the business as well. Most customers buy from e-commerce...
Magento Security Vulnerability with Open Git Directory
Is your Magento .git repository exposed and vulnerable? Git is an amazing platform that allows for version control on many sites, including Magento commerce sites. According to the official Git website, Git is a "free and open source distributed version control system...
Review of Customer Paradigm: Watchdog Magento Extension Development
Customer Paradigm Review Reviewed by Skinz on Aug 23, 2015. Summary: "This is a must have extension. It was/is the first extension I added to my site. Why because every other extension subsequently installed gets logged and you receive an email showing what database...
Magento 2.0 Community & Enterprise: Full Page Caching Explained
Full Page Cache in Magento 2.0 In Magento 2.0, full page cache is built-in for both the Magento 2.0 Community platform, as well as the Magento 2.0 Enterprise system. I can't emphasize how amazing this feature is to have for an eCommerce store. Full page caching...
Magento 2.0: Location of Database Configuration File
In Magento 1.0, the configuration file that contains database settings and other information is located here: /app/etc/local.xml In Magento 2.0, the configuration is in the same directory (/app/etc/) but has been renamed to env.php. The file path is: /app/etc/env.php...
Magento 2.0 Community Speed Test with Full Page Cache
I just ran a speed test on a new Magento 2.0 community installation. It's still in Beta and still has a few bugs; it's due for an October or November 2015 release. One of our developers just downloaded the latest version - Magento ver. 1.0.0-beta from Git Hub, and...