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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 [...]

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 [...]

Optimizing thirty bees Shopping Cart For Semantic Search

2018-08-23T08:01:53-06:00June 14th, 2017|

The term SEO goes as far back as 1990 with a school project, code named "Archie". It was a text based index of files on a computer system and transferred via FTP! Only one year later, in 1991, did the community of software developers create "Gopher". This is the grandfather of modern search engines. It created hypertext text links. Netscape and Mosaic soon followed and many open source projects such as phpNuke were born into existence. By Rama & Musée Bolo - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37010666 Now a decade and a half later, the internet thrives with [...]

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 [...]

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