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The other day someone in a comment mentioned using sitespeed.io. I focus a lot on speed optimization and honestly I had never heard of it before, so I was intrigued to look at a new speed testing tool. I checked out their site and read their documentation, it made me want to test the tool even more after reading about it on their site. Testing it was actually pretty simple and produced great results. So I wanted to share how it works with our community. What is it? sitespeed.io is actually a suite of tools that can test the performance of [...]

If you haven't been by the thirty bees marketplace lately, you are missing some great modules. Over the last few weeks us and our community have added a few new modules to our marketplace that could possibly help you increase the sales in your shop and also help you administer your shop and make changes to the front end of your shop. Of the 8 modules that this article is about 6 of them are free modules, so what do you have to lose?   VAT Exemption Module This module is one that was previously unreleased. Its been part of the [...]

If you have not seen, thirty bees 1.0.5 has been released. It comes with many bug fixes and commits form the previous branches. 1.0.5 is the first version to start including components from the updater that our community has funded. 1.0.5 includes a whole new build system for the modules to validate and build core modules so they will work flawlessly with the updater. This had to be done to make not only the version updates more stable, but also make the module updates more stable as well. Some of the bug fixes in 1.0.5 include: Removing PHP unserialize to make [...]

In case you missed it yesterday, there was an unfortunate taxing decision made yesterday that will end up effecting every American e-commerce site. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that states can collect sales taxes on orders placed on the internet. This is a huge blow to small businesses in the US that operate online. The crux of the decision that was made, is that a business no longer needs a nexus in a state to be liable for collecting that state's sales tax. If you want to read more about the decision and some of its implications, this [...]

I just wanted to take a minute to reach out and thank everyone that donated to our latest crowdfunding campaign to create a new updater for thirty bees. It really means a lot to us here that our community believes in us and what we do, believes in us enough to put their money on the line to help support us. We are so grateful to have such a great community around thirty bees. In the next few days we will release an update on the updater. We are going to try to nail down a timeline to get it finished [...]

Have you checked out the thirty bees marketplace lately? Our marketplace is growing, with over 115 modules for thirty bees by both us and different developers in our community. If you are looking for a module that is compatible for thirty bees, our marketplace is the first place you should look. Our marketplace contains both free and paid modules, with a good selection of both. We even have modules that have been specially developed by our community for thirty bees. Some of the modules have quite a bit of features, more than others that are paid. This article is going to [...]

You might have noticed that our articles all of a sudden have a player at the top of them. We have started toying around with releasing all of our future articles and blog posts as podcasts. I am sure by now you know we love technology and automation here. We are using the Amazon Polly service to automatically convert our text blog posts to audio. It doesn't sound too bad does it?   Why podcast? Why not podcast? Using Amazon Polly is incredibly cheap, for a blog our size it is actually free. It charges per character on the conversions, after [...]