Lately we ran into a repeated issue that caused a significant amount of confusion for our development team. A Magento EE client has a fairly robust caching system setup: CDN, Varnish, Memcache and then Magento EE’s FPC.
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Harleysville Football Club 2015
We were again a proud sponsor of the Harleysville Football Club. Go Whitecaps!
Magento Shoplift (SUPEE-5344) Site Remediation Helper
We finished doing an initial remediation on a site infected with SUPEE-5344 (See previous article). We built a script that we tuned to try and find files infected with our particular variant of this nasty bug. We are providing it (without support/warranty) to the rest of the eCommerce world in the hopes it may help some folks clean their shop.
We highly recommend that folks get a web application firewall like Incapsula or Cloudways nowadays. Its not fool-proof, but it can help mitigate some of these exploits before they begin.
Tips for Magento Theme Upgrades
Magento has a very extensible architecture that allows you to change your sites “look and field” by simply purchasing a new Magento theme for your version of Magento.
There are a few things you would have to do in order to get your theme to look right, but for the most part a properly designed site makes it easy to change themes quickly.
Magento Shoplift (SUPEE-5344) Site Remediation
SUPEE-5344 has been in the wild for a while now, but this is the first site that we’ve had an opportunity to re-mediate.
Magento EE Quick Tip Reward Points For Order
Just a quick tip that we hope will save some coders some time. We couldn’t find an easy way to get the reward points that were used in a particular order. The snippet below should help.
Finally Solve Win 8 No Screen Saver Problem
How to once and for all make your screensaver work in Win 8
1.) Open a command prompt with Administrative access. Type the following.
powercfg -requests
Magento SMTP Pro SES SignatureDoesNotMatch
Recently, we had a client that needed to setup their Magento cart to send out emails through Amazon SES. They installed the free SMTP Pro Magento SMTP Email plugin from AScrhoder and tried to configure it to use their Amazon SES account. When they ran the self-test within Magento Admin, they kept getting an error from the Amazon SES server saying “SignatureDoesNotMatch”. After a bit of digging, we finally figured out the solution.