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Social media marketing requires daily effort and involvement. This means it is definitely not a “set it and forget it” endeavor. The social media landscape is constantly changing, and what worked a year ago...
On 14th May 2015, Magento released a security patch bundle (SUPEE-5994) that contains multiple security fixes (see below). Jump straight to applying the patch. This comes just weeks after the major patch releases SUPEE-5344 to...
Sometimes you’ll find you’re unable to run the Plesk autoinstaller due to a locked process that is preventing the autoinstaller from launching. /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/autoinstaller The error will be as follows:- BUSY: Update operation was locked...
Sometimes, you may encounter the following error when trying to reindex in Magento:- Cannot initialize the indexer process. The first thing to check is your error logs and you should find at least, a new...
If you run a Magento store, then you will undoubtedly experience this issue at some point which will randomly crop up out of nowhere. One day, you attempt to log in to your Magento...
There are countless tutorials around the web for setting up a Magento multi-store. Many of them are incorrect, many of them are incomplete, many of them won’t work for every hosting set up. Just...
By default, Magento uses the .html extension in all catalog based URL’s and quite often a site may launch using this default URL format. Most Magento store owners will be aware that from the Magento...
When adding POP3 email accounts under Gmail’s ‘Check email from other accounts (using POP3):’ setting, you may encounter the following error message Server returned error “[AUTH] Plaintext authentication disallowed on non-secure (SSL/TLS) connections.” This...
This is quite a common issue in Magento where some orders which were paid via Paypal get stuck in ‘Pending Payment’ status. After debugging the issue, often you’ll arrive at the problem of the IPN...
So on 19th April 2015, every Magento store running a version lower than 1.9.1.0 received the inbox message about needing to apply the security patches SUPEE-5344 and SUPEE-1533. This caused quite a stir amongst Magento...
