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Magento Stress Testing Checkout – Auto Add Products To Cart

Every once in a while, we run into an issue where the checkout process either stalls or redirects back to the main checkout screen, when adding a significant amount of products to the cart. There are a whole host of issues that can cause this, but the most tedious process of debugging it, is adding all of the products to the cart in the first place. We’ve written a small script to automatically add products to your cart by simply visiting the script on the website.

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SUPEE-8788 Missing Upload Button Fix

UPDATE: 10/19/16. It also breaks your attribute editing in some instances:
http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/53352/magento-1-9-no-upload-image-buttons
app/design/adminhtml/default/default/template/media/uploader.phtml

To fix the product image upload button not loaded in Magento CE 1.9.2.1, I had to add ' character in maxUploadFileSizeInBytes value.
 
Change
 
var maxUploadFileSizeInBytes = <!--?php echo $this-&gt;getDataMaxSizeInBytes() ?-->;
To
 
var maxUploadFileSizeInBytes = '<!--?php echo $this-&gt;getDataMaxSizeInBytes() ?-->';

After having applied the latest SUPEE-8788 patch to an Magento EE system, we noticed right away that the “upload” button was missing on the products WYSIWYG view.

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Solving MySQL SSL Connection Issues

Self signing certificates and MySQL never seem to work the same way each time you set them up on dev servers (maybe we are just cursed). Nothing is more frustrating then trying to connect to an SSL server and getting the dreaded “ERROR [HY000] Unknown Error”. Its like an error message that just states an error has occurred. We did just stumble on a solution that has worked very well for a huge gamut of older MySQL servers.

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Fix WordPress Missing Visual Tab

Just a quick tip, but recently we stumbled into a strange situation, when having added our WordPress blog to Varnish, the visual tab went missing in the WP Admin. This seems like a common issue and we tried every fix we found on the web, but to no avail. We were about to add SCRIPT DEBUG (

define( 'SCRIPT_DEBUG', true );

)

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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 below.

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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.

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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 existing store, but not clutter up our root structure.
The solutions was a bit of HTACESS hacker and domain name management.

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