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Category Archives: Magento
Simple Magento Sort Optimization Patch
While doing some profiling and benchmarking of Magento to test PHP-FPM I found that Magento was spending roughly a quarter of the run time for some page loads on comparing attributes. This struck me as odd, and so I looked … Continue reading
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PCI, Magento, and Storing Credit Card Information
The question of whether you can store credit card information within Magento comes up a lot here at Nexcess. The answer to this question is unfortunately not very clear when looking for an answer elsewhere including on the Magento website. … Continue reading
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Magento Enterprise and Memcached
I recently worked with one of our Magento Enterprise Cluster clients who wanted to improve the performance of their site. This client was using our Content Delivery Network to offload the serving of static assets, and was following all of … Continue reading
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Faking Magento Speed Test Results
Web hosting is a competitive industry. Hosting companies can often find success by differentiating themselves through specialization. To that end, companies specializing in hosting certain popular web applications such as WordPress or Magento have been able to compete against the … Continue reading
Add Facebook Like Button to Magento Product View
It seems that every site you visit has a link to share this article, page or product with your Facebook friends. This tutorial will make it easy for your customers to share your products with their Facebook friends. For this … Continue reading
Updating an Old Theme to Work With Magento
Many Magento store owners continue to operate old versions of the rapidly maturing e-commerce application. With the 1.6 release looming on the horizon, now seems like a good time to consider upgrading. If you’re running a version prior to the … Continue reading
Unhide Magento Connect Extension Keys Without Logging In
When you’re working on your store and trying to get something important done, momentum matters a lot, and anything that interrupts your workflow can really get you out of the zone. I find that this happens to me a lot … Continue reading
How to Manually Install a Magento Theme
Sooner or later, you will probably want to install a Magento theme other than the default. The good news is, Magento theme installation is quick and easy. This will be accomplished in just 3 simple steps. Step 1: Download a … Continue reading
Clearing the Cache in Magento
“What is the difference between the “Flush Magento Cache” and “Flush Cache Storage” buttons?” We get this question often enough that it’s worth making a short blog post about it. In order to understand the difference between these two options, … Continue reading
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Tagged blocks, buttons, cache, collections, configuration, EAV, flush, layouts, magento, services, storage, translations, Zend
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Logging Database Queries in Magento
In previous weeks, we’ve covered some debugging tools for both MySQL and PHP that can be very helpful in troubleshooting problems with your LAMP-based web applications. However, there is a little known feature in the Varien library installed with Magento … Continue reading
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Tagged database, debugging, magento, mySQL, performance, Varien, [php]protected
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