Contact form 7 is a widely used contact form plugin. And why not? It free! More recently we've noticed an issue where Contact form 7 would report "THERE WAS AN ERROR TRYING TO SEND YOUR MESSAGE. PLEASE TRY AGAIN LATER" when a user entered the contact form information and click send. Even though the information...

We're proud to announce the recent partnership with X-Cart. X-Cart is a pioneer in the E-commerce industry. Their platform exceeds the expectations of stability, speed, efficiency, & ease of use. What does this mean? We will be able to offer the ability to start a marketplace similar to Amazon on a very stable platform that...

If you're like me, you prefer to keep things updated as often as possible. Besides, keeping things updated is a part of preventing security breaches and taking advantage of bug fixes. Unfortunately, this can cause a headache with Magento 2. The issue Magento 2 fails to load and reports 1 exception(s):Exception #0 (Exception): Deprecated Functionality:...

The fix to this issue is because the form key validation is missing on check out. You can view the fix here How to fix Magento checkout after upgrading

Prerequisites This is part 1 of a series of steps that I take to speed up Magento. With these steps, I've managed to get a Magento website to load all elements in under 3 seconds. Visually, it appears to be less than 1 second. I've also chopped the loading speed of client websites in half. (Note:...

Prerequisites Thank you for visiting my blog. First, I'd like to point out that this guide does not apply to cloud hosted websites such as Shopify or big commerce. What are expires headers Expires headers tell the browser, which elements of a website to keep in the browser cache and for how long. Every time...

After you've upgraded to Magento version 1.9.3.4 have you noticed that your check out just sits on billing information and doesn't proceed to the shipping options? Apparently, the Magento team discovered a security issue and added form key validation on check out. What are form keys? Form keys help prevent Cross Site Request Forgery attacks on Magento...

Utilizing expires headers is an important part of optimizing your website. At times it can be tricky. Apache2 configuration syntax is extremely particular. I've gathered a few items to check when you've experienced this issue. 1. Server logs When troubleshooting anything with Apache 2, your first step should be checking the apache error log. The...

Quick Introduction Recently I was optimizing a client website on a development server. Typically when optimizing I'll start with going through .htaccess and ensuring that it’s set up for the best web performance. I will typically spend the most time with Expires headers. Every website will respond to expires headers differently which is the reason...

Prerequisites It's always best to upgrade your php version to the latest stable version but keep in mind, your website must be able to handle the upgrade. This tutorial assumes that you're running Ubuntu Trusty and Mod php. You must have the ability to run these commands as root or as a sudo user. If...