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At the end of last year, I expressed that I wanted to make the integration of the community and thirty bees to be more fluid. Launching our new forum is the first step in to making that a reality. Not only is it easier to administrate, it is also a lot easier to build upon for the new features we are wanting to add in the future. Our previous forum was built off of Nodebb, while it did have some nice features, it was very troublesome to maintain. Everything we tried to use for it was half developed, so this made [...]

We have been pretty quiet here lately, I have been so consumed with pushing other areas of thirty bees forward I haven't had time to update the blog in a bit. I just wanted to let everyone know things are actually starting to come together and go pretty well with thirty bees. We are planning on making some big changes around our infrastructure pretty soon, as a way to push different parts of our plan in to the future.   The forum The forum is going to change very soon. The last month or so a couple of us have been [...]

In the past several years e-commerce has taken a shift and started to change. One of the big changes that we have seen is the newer payment methods that sites are supporting. Years ago Overstock.com started the trend by accepting Bitcoin for transactions on their site. Since then it has spiraled into some of the largest retailers such as Expedia, Newegg, Microsoft, CheapAir, and hundreds more. No longer are coin based payments in the shadows, they have been embraced by some of the largest companies in the world. Have you started accepting coin based payments yet?   Start Accepting Coin Payments [...]

A little over a month after version 1.0.6 of thirty bees was released, we have released a new updated version of thirty bees, 1.0.7. This version comes with several bug fixes that we felt like we needed to make a quick release to fix. Plus, we realize the importance of keeping a regular release schedule. Bug Fixes There were 4 major bugs that were fixed in this version of thirty bees. They were: The full page cache was accidentally broken in 1.0.6, this has been fixed. A bug was introduced where some themes would not install depending on the configuration file. [...]

Because speed is an important aspect of e-commerce thirty bees has included several different levels of caching systems in the core. The caching systems not only reduce each individual page load time, but they also increase the mount of load your server can handle since requests are served from the cache. But how can you actually quantify what the caching system does and how each one affects your site as a whole? There is a fairly solid way, load testing a site, you can see how each cache system will affect your site's load time. For these tests we are using [...]

We here at thirty bees have been gearing up for a marketing campaign for when PrestaShop 1.6 stops being updated next month. In getting ready for the campaign we wanted to be able to send users to our latest greatest version of thirty bees with our PrestaShop to thirty bees Migrator module. If you were not aware, the migrator module was hard coded to send users to version 1.0.1 of thirty bees. While this would get users to thirty bees, it definitely did not give the best appearance. So we decided we needed to have the module updated to send new [...]

I wanted to take a few minutes and let everyone know what has been going on lately with thirty bees. Things are staying pretty busy around here, with lots of unexpected problems. Over the last couple of weeks our Wordpress site has been hacked a few times. Apparently one of the modules we used did not think to check the kind of files that were being uploaded. Which is highly frustrating since we take so much care to make our own software as secure as possible. The Wordpress issues caused us to look at the security around our infrastructure and make [...]