by Alan Barber | Dec 12, 2016 | All
Magento 1.x Community Edition is painfully lacking one of the features of its Enterprise Counterpart: a Full Page Cache (“FPC”). An FPC is absolutely essential to running a fully optimized storefront — as most merchants come to realize, even with a...
by Gillian Owen | Sep 14, 2016 | All
So I wanted to try out Magento 2 on php 7.1 (I use ubuntu 16 xenial). Everything seems to be working — I ran into one issue with the mcrypt functionality being deprecated in php 7.1 On every page load I was receiving: Function mcyrpt_module_open() is deprecated...
by Alan Barber | Sep 12, 2016 | How To, Javascript, Magento, Magento 2, Magento Extensions
Fix for developer mode javascript and html caching. Learn how to disable Magento 2 static asset caching by updating the RequireJS config!
by Gillian Owen | Sep 10, 2016 | Magento
I’ll start this off by saying that I really appreciated all of the speakers who presented at the conference these past two days in Austin, Texas. The presentations were very helpful, fun and reassuring as we look forward to what’s next in the...
by Gillian Owen | Aug 5, 2016 | Design, eCommerce
Starting at a blank canvas never helps to get the ball rolling with design. That’s why I’ve put together a quick list of some great spots to check for ecommerce design inspiration. 7. ThemeForest It might seem counter intuitive to browse existing themes...
by Gillian Owen | May 30, 2016 | All, eCommerce, Magento, Magento Extensions
Track visitors and sales from Pinterest using our free Magneto tracking pixel extension.
by Gillian Owen | Mar 23, 2016 | All, eCommerce, Magento
Everyone knows time is money. So here are some uncommonly thought of ways to save your company money by saving your customer service team time. 1. Force or Auto-select Your Free Shipping Option This has to be one of the most common issues on eCommerce...
by Alan Barber | Mar 14, 2016 | All
Here at Cadence Labs, we’ve done a number of Magento-WordPress integrations using the MWI plugin (see our full article here: https://www.cadence-labs.com/2015/02/use-magento-theme-wordpress/ ). One error we run into with more complex builds is: PHP Fatal error:...
by Alan Barber | Feb 29, 2016 | All
I wanted to get a brief article out on this nasty bug, which has affected a few of our clients. The bug manifests in the following way: Requests will “randomly” redirect the user to the homepage Upon further inspection, you will see headers like: 302...
by Alan Barber | Feb 25, 2016 | All, How To, Inside Cadence Labs, Magento
Here at Cadence Labs, whenever we on-board a new client, the first thing we do is audit their Magento source code. This helps us provide our clients with security recommendations and accurate estimates for future projects or upgrades. If you are interested in having...