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We know there have been a lot of questions surrounding what thirty bees is doing lately, but don't worry, we are not sitting on our laurels. We are actually growing as a company. We are proud to announce the newest member of our team Markus Hitter. You might recognize him from the thirty bees forums as @traumflug. You can also find him on GitHub under the same nick as well. Markus brings a lot to the table working with thirty bees, he was one of the first community members to join in the effort of working with thirty bees. It did [...]

Welcome to another edition of the thirty bees update. This update is going to consist of two parts, the first part is to let you know what we are doing and why its taking so freaking long. The second part is asking you all for help in what ever way you can help. While also being a little more candid in what are the goings on at thirty bees. What we have been up to? This week we have bug fixed and update a few of our core modules. Namely the MailChimp module. Having a solid MailChimp module is one of [...]

In the past week the forum has gone into full meltdown with users speculating whats is going on at thirty bees. Are we going out of business? What are we working on? Where have we been. I am going to set the record straight today, give some insights, and hopefully make everything easier for the future. Neither Michael or myself are wealthy. We have to balance our time with thirty bees and our time making income to support our families. thirty bees does not make us money. In all, thirty bees does not make enough money to pay for thirty bees [...]

Have you ever wondered why stats were included in your shop? You can actually use the included stats in your shop to increase your SEO, better your marketing efforts, and drive more sales to your shop. Below are some of the stats I like to use in my client's shops to gain insight into how their customers browse their shops and what we can do better in their shops.   Pages not found This is one of my favorite stats. It lets you see all the pages that are registering 404 errors in your shop. Looking at the not found pages [...]

Security is an often overlooked aspect of e-commerce. We have seen a lot of merchants that set up their site and never think about security again. This very bad practice and can put your customer's data at risk. With new laws coming in place in the EU and with data breaches being more scrutinized around the world, security should be at the forefront of your mind. Data breaches can not only cost your company in reputation, you can also be held liable in some instances from your payment processor. Since security breaches can come from many different angles we are going to [...]

Website accessibility is a topic that is not commonly talked about, but it is an important topic none-the-less. Especially when you consider that you could be excluding a whole demographic of potential customers from your website. Other concerns with having an inaccessible website are that you could be in violation of the laws in your country as well, opening your business to sanction or fines. This is why we need to bring this discussion out of the shadows and confront it. The legal benefit A growing number of countries are starting to require websites to be accessible to individuals with disabilities. By [...]

Over the past couple of weeks, we have noticed an uptick in comment form spam. Most of the spam we have seen seems to be coming from either .ru email addresses or qq email addresses. Some shops we are seeing are getting hundreds a day, making it nearly impossible to handle normal business, because they are too busy deleting the spam messages. For those of you unfamiliar with me, I own dh42, we support currently around 600 PrestaShop websites and a steadily growing number of thirty bees websites. Since thirty bees is so closely related to PrestaShop, the problems we are [...]