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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.

thirty bees now on Softaculous

2018-08-23T08:01:45-06:00June 16th, 2017|

thirty bees is now available in in Softaculous installer! If you are not familiar with what Softaculous is, you might have used it without ever even knowing. This is a big step for us in helping to bring thirty bees to even more users. If you have a web host that uses cPanel the changes are you can install thirty bees easily. Softaculous is the installer that most hosts that use cPanel use. Some of the major hosts where you can install thirty bees easily are A2 Hosting inMotion Hosting HostGator SiteGround NameCheap Liquid Web Web Hosting Hub and many more [...]

Setting up REDIS caching on Cloudways

2018-08-23T08:02:54-06:00June 11th, 2017|

If you are running thirty bees on CloudWays you are already getting off to a great start. But if you need even more performance, there is something you can do to get more. One of the main things we considered with thirty bees is performance. Other platforms have shifted to frameworks that can slow your site down, while we have focused on leaning the platform out for speed. What is REDIS? In short REDIS is a caching structure that works with databases. OPcache workers with code, keeping it in memory and REDIS does the samething, except for databases. When you are hosting [...]

thirty bees partners with CloudSwipe

2018-08-23T08:03:00-06:00June 4th, 2017|

Payment security should be one of the most important aspects of e-commerce sites. If your site starts leaking credit card numbers, processors can often times charge you for each credit card number that was leaked. This can get expensive very quickly. At the same time keeping up with PCI compliance can be expensive as well since some packages are patched on a weekly basis. That is why we have decided to partner with CloudSwipe to bring easier PCI compliance to our merchants. Along with bringing easier PCI compliance, they also broaden the number of payment gateways that work with thirty bees [...]

thirty bees on Cloudways

2019-01-14T14:03:02-06:00May 30th, 2017|

We are proud to announce that we have partnered with Cloudways as our international hosting partner. Over the past couple months we have worked diligently with Cloudways to design the optimal setup for thirty bees to run on. At the same time we have tuned the performance of thirty bees so that it is optimal with the features that they have standard.   Locations One of the main factors in looking for an international hosting partner was the locations that they offered. We are very aware that in e-commerce that speed matters, we especially know that close servers matter with speed. [...]

Module Compatibility: NemoPS

2018-08-23T08:03:12-06:00May 29th, 2017|

The first company to join our module compatibility program is Nemo's PostScriptum. If you are not familiar Nemo, he is one of the most active community members on the PrestaShop forum and is also active on the thirty bees forum as well. He has been developing modules and creating tutorials for many years now.   Some of the modules Nemo has a whole host of modules that he brings to the table and more are going to be compatible soon. The first ones that he made compatible are: Free product access module Free carrier assigner module Cash on delivery with fee module [...]

Error reporting

2018-08-23T08:03:53-06:00May 9th, 2017|

Errors are the worst thing that can happen to your shop. Sometimes they are hard to figure out and you never know what really is going wrong. They are especially hard when your customer's just see a white screen, they have no clue what it means generally. That is why we introduced a new type of error reporting in thirty bees. Instead of the normal white screen when a 500 error happens, we display an encoded error message that you can decode in the back office. Why? Displaying the error messages this way alert your customers that something went wrong, they are [...]

How to report a bug

2018-08-23T08:04:35-06:00May 7th, 2017|

No software is perfect, from time to time you might find a bug in thirty bees. If you do, let us know and we will get it fixed. Reporting a bug in thirty bees is pretty straight forward, but there are some bits of information that will help solve the issue as soon as possible. Reporting the bug The best place to report bug for thirty bees on our forum. We have a dedicated forum especially for bug reports right here.  When you report a bug be as clear as possible about what is happening and how to reproduce the bug. [...]

Guides

2018-08-23T08:04:48-06:00May 5th, 2017|

At thirty bees we take our merchants success seriously. We know our merchant's come from all different background and all different walks of life, but they have one thing in common, they want to be successful. We are starting a new section of our site in the coming weeks that is going to be a huge undertaking. We are going to start publishing guides for our merchants. Don't get me wrong, when I say guides, I am not talking about what the other companies publish. These are not going to be guides full of paid services and links to affiliate programs. Most [...]

Module Compatibility Program

2018-08-23T08:05:04-06:00May 3rd, 2017|

As we progress with development of thirty bees one thing that is always on our mind is compatiblity. Be it themes or modules, we want to maintain the most compatibility possible for the time being. As a store owner we can imagine how confusing it is trying to figure out if modules work with thirty bees or not. That is why we have introduced our Compatibility Program. The basics of it are pretty simple. If you are a developer, you can display the thirty bees compatible logo on your modules or themes pages. This will let store owners or other developers [...]

thirty bees as a company

2018-08-23T08:05:10-06:00May 2nd, 2017|

I wanted to take a minute to talk about thirty bees as a company, what we are and what we are not. Our thoughts, our principals, and part of our path forward. We are starting out as a fork, but we are not going to let that define us. Our code base, code style, and vision is moving forward quickly. We want to make our merchants successful and to do that we have to make tough decisions that can affect our revenue and thirty bees as a company.   Our core principals We have several core principles for thirty bees, but [...]

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