Author: dx3
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SHELLSHOCK: BASH BUG UPDATE
“Just to confirm our tweet yesterday. All servers and VPSs have been patched and tested to be free of this bug.”
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THE PERILS OF WORDPRESS INTEGRATION WITH MAGENTO (AND ANYTHING ELSE)
WordPress has once again been the butt of many social media postings regarding security after another WordPress vulnerability was found in the MailPoet plugin details here> No matter how useful you find WordPress there is no doubt that if offers a large target for anyone wanting to hack your site. By combining WordPress and Magento both applications […]
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MAGENTO SECURITY TIPS
Every minute of every day your Magento site is being probed by some bot trying to find a hole in your defences. There are a number of steps you can take to secure your site and keep your customers safe. Quick wins 1) Never use /admin as your Magento control panel home page. Simply changing […]
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EBAY ANNOUNCES THE END OF “MAGENTO GO”
Ebay is to close their hosted Magento Go e-commerce package on the 1st February 2015 and have closed the site to new businesses. The announcement was made by Mark Lavelle, SVP, Product and Strategy, eBay Enterprise on the home page of the service this week. Magento Go is a service that provides businesses access to a […]
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HHVM NOW STANDARD ON OUR MAGENTO VPS CONTAINERS. HHVM MAGENTO CONTAINERS
Dx3webs is pleased to announce that all our Magento optimized VPS servers now come with HHVM as a standard option. This allows even faster running of your magento store. As you will know if you have followed our blog or twitter feed we are really excited about the development of HHVM and the improvements that […]
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HOW TO CREATE AN ANCHOR CATEGORY ON MAGENTO
Magento offers you the ability to create Anchor Categories. Then this is where its subcategories are shown like layered navigation options. For example if you choose to have ‘Electronics’ as the anchor category, then the subcategories will be shown in a layered navigation way like this; Laptop TV’s Mobile Phones To create an Anchor Category, […]
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HOW TO CREATE A PRODUCT ON MAGENTO
Magento allows you to add as many products to your store as you wish. You also have the opportunity to fill in any information you want about the product to entice customers into buying it. It is possible to add ‘Meta Information’ which will make your product easier to find from a search engine such […]
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HOW TO CREATE A SUBCATEGORY ON MAGENTO
Subcategories are another way for customers to identify specific products on your website without searching through products they don’t want. Magento offers the ability for a category to have as many subcategories as needed and they can be accessed by the customer through the categories drop down menu on your site navigation bar. In turn […]
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HOW TO CREATE A NEW PAGE IN MAGENTO
Magento provides a basic content management system to present your information using however many pages you want. The first important pages to show your customers who you are and a little bit about you and your store are your ‘About Us’ or ‘Contact Us’. By going to the backend of your website and filling in […]
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HOW TO CREATE STORE EMAIL ADDRESSES IN MAGENTO
Magento offers the ability to create store email addresses for your website. This will offer a more professional look when emailing customers and you can personalize the name of these to what you wish. You can allocate specific emails for General Contact, Customer Support and Sales. These emails are also used to send error reports […]