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About Lesley Paone

Lesley is the owner of a PrestaShop support, development, and ecoomerce SEO agency called dh42. He has been active in the ecommerce community for almost a decade providing help and support services.

Helping with phone orders

2018-08-23T07:57:59-06:00July 6th, 2017|

There are some sites you work with that get less than tech savvy people as customers. I personally have had a couple of clients whose sites are targeted at an older demographic that has trouble with the checkout some time. After a bit of thinking we came up with a way to help the users in the event that they called. Below is what we added to the cart. Now if the user has an issue in the checkout and they call, they can give the merchant the reference number. What the reference number is, is actually the cart id. That [...]

Adding tabs to the product page

2018-08-23T07:58:10-06:00July 6th, 2017|

One of the requests we have seen a lot on the forum and through emails is adding tabs to the thirty bees theme product pages. Some users do not like the standard layout of sections and prefer the tabs better. So we decided to write a quick tutorial on how to remove the sections and replace them with tabs. Getting Started For this tutorial you are going to have to have a basic understand of how to ftp into your site and edit theme files. Below is the area on the product page we are talking about. The first thing you [...]

Backoffice auto-login

2018-08-23T07:58:16-06:00July 4th, 2017|

One thing that has irritated me for years is how developers handle their backoffice demos. It seems like with everyone you have to copy the username and then copy the password before you can login. For years I thought there had to be a better way. When I setup our demos for thirty bees I took that to task. I created a simple little modification that will allow you to automatically log users into the backoffice of your demo sites. This creates a better user experience and reduces the bounces of people that might not feel like going to the trouble. [...]

Announcing our developer blog

2018-08-23T07:58:22-06:00July 4th, 2017|

We are happy to announce that we are starting a second blog for developers.  We realize that some of our readers would just like to read topics relating to their shops, how to increase sales, our news, and other topics of that nature. While other readers would like to go more in depth and learn new techniques, and explore different configurations of thirty bees. We know there are a lot of developers in our community that would love to learn new techniques, or even share some of their techniques with our community. We would love to have technical guest posters to [...]

thirty bees module store

2018-08-23T07:58:29-06:00July 3rd, 2017|

We just thought we would give everyone in the community a quick update about our module store and a little bit more information about it. The work on the store is progressing along quite nicely and we are going to be able to launch the store soon. We have planned on launching the store in two phases, so we can Q&A check and also check for any kind of bugs. Phase one The first phase of the launch is going to be free modules only. This way we can get feedback from both the community and the module developers as to [...]

Community theme update

2017-06-30T05:38:42-06:00June 30th, 2017|

Do you like SEO? We sure do, so we have updated the community theme. We have focused on making it more html 5 compliant and used more html5 and semantic data best practices with it. The standard version of the theme was not bad, but it was dated. So we went through and updated the theme and modernized it. Gulp If you are a developer and you have tried to use the theme in a development environment, you might have noticed that the gulpfile failed. We have fixed this issue and compensated for it. It centered around a bug in jscsrc [...]

Crowdfunding Modules

2018-08-23T08:00:54-06:00June 28th, 2017|

There has been a lot of talk on our forum about crowdfunding of modules lately. We have decided that we would like to try the idea out. We look at it as a way for the community to help us further the mission of thirty bees in providing the best possible ecommerce software for free. While at the same time helping choose the direction of thirty bees. Over the last week we have been discussing how to handle this and which module to choose to try this system out. We have had lots of suggestions for different modules, so we [...]

Contributing to thirty bees on Windows

2018-08-23T08:01:05-06:00June 26th, 2017|

We have had a lot of questions about how to contribute to thirty bees from users that either use Windows or are not very familiar with GitHub. GitHub and using git can be daunting at first, but once you get the hang of it, it is not that hard. Today we will walk you through step by step of making a contribution to the community-default theme. Getting started The first thing you need to do is to set up a GitHub account. It is a free account and it will keep track of all of your contributions to our project. You [...]

Recurring payments in thirty bees

2018-08-23T08:01:20-06:00June 21st, 2017|

When we look at thirty bees right now we do not see a complete e-commerce system. We see major features missing and recurring payments is one. We think the platform can be expanded greatly by adding the ability to have recurring payments. We are starting to look forward at a system that will allow for these kind of payments, but we need ideas and help. The basic system In our minds the recurring system needs to be build into the core and be a managed core system. There are some platforms that deal with recurring payments in modules, but we [...]

Module Compatibility: dh42

2018-08-23T08:01:36-06:00June 18th, 2017|

dh42 has joined the thirty bee module compatibility program. While they are not typically known for their modules, they do have several useful modules that work great with thirty bees. They are normally more well known for their support, which they have started providing for thirty bees as well. Modules dh42 has made most of their free modules compatible with thirty bees. The ones that were not chosen to be compatible were because thirty bees already had those features in the core already. But some of the more popular free modules are: Bing Conversion Tracking Facebook Conversion Tracking Google Adwords Conversion [...]

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