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Are you wanting to set up a new thirty bees site on your own private Digital Ocean VPS account? Digital Ocean is a great choice for hosting a low cost thirty bees site if you are technically inclined. This article will show you how to install thirty bees on the 16.04 LAMP stack One-click App.   Getting started The first thing you will need to do is to log into your Digital Ocean account. If you do not already have a Digital Ocean account, you can get started here. Once you get signed in, You will need to click Create link [...]

I'm going to talk about how to take your thirty bees v1.0.3 site, and upgrade it to version 1.0.4 (latest source). First of all, this is NOT to be done on your production site, this is for you to test out the latest version, on a cloned site. So the first step is to clone your site, you can do this to a new domain, or a sub-domain of one of your existing domains, or create a localhost setup and do it there. The specifics are out of the realm of this write-up. Next get your cloned site working, make whatever [...]

Since the thirty bees store has launched anyone can sign up and add their free modules to the store. We expect over the next few months our store will become an amazing place for our community to find the modules that they need to run their shops. If you are a developer that likes open source, this article is for you. It goes step by step with how to list your free modules in our store. The Requirements The requirements for listing free modules in our store is simple, they need to have a GitHub repo and correct formatting of the [...]

If you are like most merchants you have three primary focuses for your shop, speed, SEO, and conversion optimization. Google Optimize comes in to help with conversion optimization. It is a free platform by Google that allows you run A/B tests on your site. With A/B tests you are able to see what changes affect the conversion rates of your site for better or for worse. Then you can start optimizing your site to have the highest possible conversion rates. Who wants higher conversion rates? Getting started There is a prerequisite to using Google Optimize, you will need to have goals [...]

One of the first things you should do when you set up Google Analytics on your website is to start creating goals. Goals are a great way to track events on your website as a metric to see how your website is doing. They can be useful to give you insight to how customers are interacting on your website and to why they might not be purchasing. Setting up your goals To start setting up your goals, you will need to login to your Google Analytics dashboard. Once you are in the Analytics view for your site, you will want to [...]

In this quick tutorial, you will learn how to add the product count, as well as the price ranges, for subcategories in ThirtyBees, to give your customer a better understanding of your catalog. Step 1 - Retrieving the product count for each subcategory The best approach when adding new functionalities to thirty bees is to use overrides. Let's add a new one for the Category class, which includes the function that retrieves subcategories in thirty bees. Create a new file named Category.php inside override/classes, and open it up in your favorite code editor. Then, let's start by adding some simple override [...]