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 … Read More
We have been doing a great deal of work using WordPress and a nifty little plugin called s2Member (http://www.s2member.com). It essentially creates an entire subscription … Read More
Just a quick tip. For some reason, trying to add a plugin to a WordPress User is more difficult than it should be. We tried … Read More
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 … Read More
This is an ubber ubber short install guide we came up with to get Glassfish on a virtual server for testing:
Make sure you have at least 512 memory free!
1.) Install java
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
We ran into a TON of problems upgrading our ubuntu servers to the latest version of Ubuntu. We suffered everything from Kernel panics, to python issues, to broken upgrades mid-way through. It was a vastly different than the typical upgrade cycle we have been used to.
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 a product, they would NOT load automatically into the default view of the store. So on the front-end the images would always appear “broken”.
We had a project where we are using PhPMailer to send emails out from an existing gmail account. While sending emails from a local SMTP … Read More
We do a lot of work with Amazon’s S3 cloud. With the S3 you can quickly setup a huge chunk of reasonable cost storage and … Read More
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 note below regarding the “Success” page stance and guest users.
If you run a Magento shop and you depend on Google as part of your sales strategy, the Google Trusted Merchant badge is almost a requirement. From the MediaPost (Source), merchants are seeing upwards of 4% increase in sales just by having the badge on their store.
Do not wait! Contact Us today to have us setup your Google Trusted Store account ASAP.
UPDATE 5/21/2013: There is a plugin available for Magento now (Here). We are not a fan of it, since it forces you to create an FTP account to send your feed. To us that isn’t really a “Feed” then. People have posted mixed results installing it. As for anything, if you need any expert Magento advice do not hesitate to Contact Us
As a part of Googles new trusted store feeds, merchants are required to implement several real-time tracking devices as well as a daily feed for shipments/cancellations.
We found a great post on how to do some of the Magento real time implementations (see: here), but we had to build our shipment and cancellations feeds from scratch. We’ll leave out the gory details of how to test/upload your feeds to Google Merchant, but listed below are code snippets for both of our feeds.
