In this post we gathered information about the most popular self-hosted e-commerce platforms. Magento, PrestaShop, Zen Cart, and other solutions are described in the article. We tried to show their major features, as well as positive and negative aspects.
This Magento performance guide is written for all versions of the ecommerce platform (including Magento 2). It is suitable for both Community and Enterprise editions. Additionally, it is useful for php & mysql web applications. Below, you will find all vital Magento performance improvements and optimizations for server and application sides of your ecommerce website, as well as the most popular enterprise class Magento performance solutions.
Search engines provide your potential customers with a list of search results, where your e-commerce Magento website is shown. The list of search results often consist of hundreds of pages, and you will agree that your store should be at the top of this list. Otherwise, it will be lost among other results, and your potential customers will never find it. In this post, we have gathered everything you need to know about search engine optimization of your Magento store. Want to know what to do with the website in order to optimize SEO and climb to the top of all search results? Check the post below.
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You can read the full version of this post in our “Magento DIY. The complete Guide” book. Besides SEO, the it describes a lot of other improvements and modifications. For instance, the book shows how to improve performance, security, and other vital aspects of every ecommerce website, run a successful marketing campaign, and create a top-notch user experience. Furthermore, “Magento DIY” teaches how to get all Enterprise-level features on the basis of the Community Edition platform and implement opportunities which are not available in both editions out-of-the-box. The article is just the beginning, and all robust improvements are described in the book. For further information about “Magento DIY,” follow the link below:
The following guide teaches how to set up and configure server for both Magento 2 and 1.X. Below, you will find a list of providers that offer cheap but quite powerful and reliable dedicated server solutions, discover how to install all-in-one web stack required by your Magento website (including Nginx, Apache, MariaDB, PHP 5.6, OPCache, and Redis), get a deep insight on the usage of Composer, Git, IonCube, XDebug & PHPUnit, Solr, Varnish, as well as Grunt and RabbitMQ on a server. Magento server configuration is a piece of cake! Continue Reading
To adjust Apache web server to run Magento 2 in a subdirectory utilize the following .htaccess files: Continue Reading
Below, we will show you how to prepare your Magento website for Christmas and other winter holidays. Do you know that it is possible to use the Christmas time to improve your conversion rate and make your customers more loyal? The following post discusses visual changes as well as various performance and marketing improvements vital during the holiday season. And you can easily implement almost everything via appropriate Magento extension. Continue Reading
In case of brick-and-mortar retail, store audit is an examination of information about the effectiveness of different parameters such as price, sales, or advertising campaign compared to any competitors or common standards. As for ecommerce in general and Magento in particular, this process is more complicated, since it consists of a wider number of variables that require different approach to calculation. Luckily, there are a lot of tools and materials, that can help you with a Magento store audit. The following guide offers a store audit checklist, resources, and techniques necessary for running the procedure. Being useful for all kinds of Magento specialists and store owners, it teaches how to estimate efforts, collect information about your Magento website, and keep the installation clean and healthy. Continue Reading
Shoplift is a dangerous Magento bug. It allows hackers to take e-commerce store under a full control. The threat was discovered by Check Point. You can easily fix it with the help of patch SUPEE-5344. A lot of Magento stores are still vulnerable, because they haven’t applied the patch yet. Below, you we show how to fix the problem.
UPD (15.05.15): SUPEE-5994 Magento security patch
UPD (08.07.15): SUPEE-6285 Magento security patch
UPD (08.07.15): Magento Security Alert Registry
UPD (05.08.15): SUPEE-6482 Magento security patch
UPD (17.09.15): SUPEE-3762 Magento security patch
UPD (09.10.15): Magmi and Nginx
UPD (21.10.15): Guruincsite Magento Issue and SUPEE-6788 Magento security patch
UPD (24.11.15): Magento Security Patch SUPEE-6788 Performance Issues
UPD (28.01.16): SUPEE-7405 and SUPEE-7616
In order to structurize our articles about Magento modules, we’ve decided to create this post. Below, you will find links to all Firebear’s materials about the best Magento extensions. If you are looking for Magento 2 plugins, follow this link: The Best Magento 2 Extensions. Continue Reading
A new Magento malware has been discovered and it is a malicious script by . Unfortunately, a new attack vector is not identified, but we already know that the disease makes Magento websites vulnerable to a code execution issue. Below, we shed light on how to prevent your ecommerce store from Guruincsite Magento disaster.
UPD (21.10.15) SUPEE-6788 will help you solve the Guruincsite issue
