GoDaddy VPS Firewall Mail Issues
A customer recently setup a new VPS from GoDaddy. As soon as we had setup the code and firewall, we immediately noticed that mail was not being delivered.
Magento Debugging Transactional Emails
Magento’s transactional email templates are incredibly power tools to be able to completely customize your brand to customers. One of the toughest challenges faced by designers is being able to test the email as it would look in an inbox, using actual data. We’ve come up with a super easy way to test emails listed […]
Magento Supee-7405 Troubleshooting Tips
From the “Here we go again” The latest round for Patches from Magento (Supee-7405) is a brand new bundle of critical patches. Just like the previous 6788 version, this is proving to be anything but an easy patch.
Amazon WorkMail Basic Email Hosting
There is a dizzying array of cloud hosted email services available for those offices that rely on Outlook/Microsoft software, and now Amazon is jumping into the mix with their new “WorkMail” solution.
Magento Multiple Stores with Seperate WordPress Instances
We’ve started to bring another store online recently that was to be added to an existing Magento hosted store. The existing store already had a blog setup and running with the store under a specific sub-directory. The challenge was the we wanted to bring online a new blog instance that was completely separate from the […]
WordPress Cloudflare Flexible SSL
Every firewall service company is now touting the ability to have HTTP2 enabled on their site. The problem is to gain any benefit for HTTP, you must have SSL fully enabled on your site. If you have any complicated caching turned on that does not work with SSL directly, then this can be a problem.
Kicking the Magento 2 EE Tires on EC2
Magento 2 was released a few weeks ago and we hadn’t had a chance to review it yet, so we decided to try it out in a sample Amazon EC2 instance. Wasn’t quite as easy as we had expected We wanted to be able to run everything on a single contained instance just for trial […]
Magento EE Check If Order Item Has Been RMA’d
One great feature of Magento Enterprise is that it comes with an RMA system completely built in. Its a very good feature to have if you have a high volume of sales. The system is a bit confusing to learn, from a user interface perspective, but once you get the hang of it its not […]
Magento Supee-6788 Troubleshooting Tips
The latest round for Patches from Magento (Supee-6788) have seemed to have caused a lot of confusion. While important, the patches fail to take into consideration that a few stock files may have been changed (.htaccess) or removed (.htaccess.sample). The patch also errors on cryptic messages and seemingly provide very little to troubleshoot with. We […]
Magento Custom Bundle Pricing
One of the nice features about doing orders in the Magento back-end is the ability to create manual orders and setting a discount price. The only problem is that this custom pricing was only available with simple products. We managed to create magento custom bundle pricing in just a few steps.