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Utilizing GZip with WordPress, Finally a Fast Blog…

The first half of this arti­cle will be taken directly from our pre­vi­ous post, as the need for a sin­gle default php.ini is nec­es­sary to con­fig­ure gzip. If read­ing our Magento post is what brought you to the site, and you’ve already con­fig­ured your default php.ini, than skip to the .htac­cess por­tion of the post. Oth­er­wise, were off…

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Nov 30, 2009 | Magento, Web Design, Wordpress | Leave A Comment »

The Correct Way To Set Up gzip with Magento

We wrote this arti­cle in response to post­ings offer­ing advice to users of Magento, an open source ecom­merce sys­tem. The advice is being given with good inten­tions, and the intent is only to assist their fel­low Magento users. But the advice being give may actu­ally have the poten­tial cause harm to the users site, or at the least a good deal of down time. The advice being offered is to help speed up Magento by enabling a server side caching sys­tem called gzip. What peo­ple don’t real­ize is that their being told to enable two sep­a­rate caching sys­tems. These two sys­tems tend not to play well together, and could cause harm to your install. While most peo­ple see pos­i­tive results, there are a rare few see­ing server side errors, data­base errors, and are stumped as to why.

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Nov 30, 2009 | Magento, Server 2003, Wordpress | 8 Comments »

Protect Magento Pages

We recently built a site with a whole­sale area, uti­liz­ing the “Login Only Cat­a­log Exten­sion” and the “Cus­tomer Acti­va­tion Exten­sion”. While this did pro­tect our whole­sale inven­tory from pry­ing eyes, it still left a few pages vis­i­ble to the gen­eral pub­lic. For­tu­nately we found a fix that addressed this issue, and allowed us to secure the rest of the site, in a manor that was intu­itive, and easy to implement.

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Nov 05, 2009 | Magento | 3 Comments »

Magento Terms and Conditions Missing

This was an inter­est­ing issue we ran into recently while build­ing an E-commerce site for one of our clients. Typ­i­cally “Terms and Con­di­tions” is eas­ily enable in the admin­is­tra­tive sec­tion by first going to Con­fig­u­ra­tion -> Sys­tem -> Check­out ->Check­out Options and choos­ing yes to enable “Terms and Con­di­tions”. Then going to Sales -> Terms and con­di­tions and typ­ing in your terms. With our setup, we were able to choose yes to enable “Terms and Con­di­tions”, but we were not able to see the option under sales to fill in a list of terms.

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Oct 31, 2009 | Magento, Web Design | 3 Comments »

Enabling HTML in Magento Terms and Conditions

We’ve recently been work­ing with a new E-commerce plat­form called Magento. Its a very pow­er­ful open source prod­uct, with tons of fea­tures, and open source good­ness. We recently ran into an issue where we needed to enable HTML con­tent in the “Terms and Con­di­tions”. The fix was actu­ally quite simple.

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Oct 31, 2009 | Magento, Web Design | 1 Comment »