by dwdonline | Apr 21, 2018 | Blog, Magento, Tech
RegTech (Regulation Technology), has been used in the financial industry (often referred to as FinTech), since 2008. But, it has only been recently that the tech industry has considered applying this to other fields. As a small business consultant and web developer,...
by dwdonline | Jul 6, 2016 | Blog, Fixes, Magento, Upgrades
Clients often ask me how important upgrading Magento is? The answer is yes – if you want to keep your e-commerce site running smoothly and securely. Updates bring a number of benefits: They patch bugs. When people report bugs – problems with the Magento software,...
by dwdonline | Nov 6, 2015 | Blog, Magento, Upgrades
Upgrading Magento via SSH is usually much simpler than via the magento downloader. To upgrade follow these simple steps. 1. First backup. Download a copy of your database, and backup your files. You can make a zip of them. 2. Set the permissions for mage: chmod +x...
by dwdonline | Sep 17, 2015 | Apache, LAMP, Magento
If you are getting the error “Unknown cipher in list: TLSv1” while installing Magento or updating it, chances are it’s because you are hosting on a Centos box and well, Centos is always a pain. To fix it:...
by dwdonline | Sep 8, 2015 | Blog, Extensions, Fixes, Magento
We all want (and need our e-commerce site to run fast and look good). Recently, with a client who has over 30,000 products in their catalog, I found that category pages were taking 10-13 seconds to load. Magento was slowing to a crawl. Looking further, I found that...
by dwdonline | Feb 26, 2015 | Blog, Magento, Magento Snippets
Sometimes we need to get a customer’s group in Magento. Pretty straight forward. But, when you add GroupsCatalog2, customers can be assigned to multiple groups. I recently had a client that wanted to tell customers on their customer dashboard what groups they...
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