Magento has just released a website holiday preparation guide to ensure your website is prepared for increased traffic for the holiday season. Its a pretty decent guide, worth a quick read. If you have any questions, be sure to Contact us for more information. Click for Guide Here
After upgrade to EE1.12 or greater, some adminhtml custom buttons that were created for Orders, did not work. Magento changed the way the code was structured, and refactored a ton of their code. Our button code used to resolve in the local/Mage/Adminhtml/Block/Sales/Order/Grid.php. Magento moved it to the “View.php” (more logical in our opinion). To fix […]
Planning a successful Magento Enterprise Upgrade. Magento is a very complex and powerful shopping cart system. Customization comes at a price however, when it comes time to upgrade to the latest version of the platform. We’ve listed a few strategies below that have helped us plan, test and successfully upgrade clients with the least amount […]
During a very busy holiday weekend, one of our clients running their ecommerce site on Amazon EC2 ran into a rather large snag. Their order email confirmations to customers were being delayed and sometimes not being sent out for hours later.
Recently we had noticed that several of our success messages, such as “Product Name was successfully added to your cart”, where actually being added twice. Several other messages were also duplicated we had noticed. This was working fine on our development server and another upgrade instance. The only difference between our production and development servers […]
The Magento ecommerce system is a very complicated architecture, fraught with hardware and software tuning, caching systems, and database tuning. On a dedicated server, this can be a challenge to manage on a day to day basis. Moving it to the cloud presents a whole set of factors that will need to be considered. Magento […]
As most Magento developers or administrators know, the upgrade process from version to version can be a bit dicey and time consuming. We have run into all sorts of roadblocks and snafus and thought it would be nice to share our tips. 1.) Development box: Must Must Must Must have one of these! It should […]
While working on a client’s Magento CE cart, we noticed that their diskspace had jumped astronomically over the past few weeks. Coincidentally, this started right around the time our C# dot net SOAP Magento product feed started running and had a few “bumps” a long the way. Apparently, when the Dot Net service failed its […]
We are full of quick “tips” this month! We have been doing some automated product system integrations using a third party data feed and a pre-existing Magento install. The C# Sharp calls to Magento’s API work quite well (seemingly a bit slow), but we ran into a brick wall recently. Essentially, while adding images to […]
UPDATE 12/20/2013: We’ve moved a few clients away from the Google Plugin, in favor of the PHP file feeds. The Google Plugin, in our experience has caused a lot of problem and bugs with other plugins and was not consistent (for whatever reason) in reporting the data to Google. Also, we have added an important […]
