• About Dan

    A jolly ol' chap that enjoys the everyday cliff drop, skate park, climbing crag and tree run mixed with a heavy dose of development and design of web sites, print and video production and the rush of marketing ventures.

    Magento not sending email? This may help!

    by  • May 28, 2012 • Magento • 2 Comments

    We were getting reports that customers were not receiving email for resetting passwords, order confirmations and account creations. We had a test account to verify the email sending problem. The test account would never receive any email correspondence. The Magento logs didn’t record any issues accept where the customer entered the wrong email address....

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    Magento Product Missing Category Drop Down Solved

    by  • November 17, 2011 • Magento • 2 Comments

    Yet another interesting discovering has been made in the world of Magento product creation and management. We have a client that was unable to access specific categories from the drop down list in the Category tab on the product edit page in the backend of Magento. The list would show many parent categories with...

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    WordCamp Albuquerque 2011, I was there!

    by  • September 20, 2011 • Technology • 0 Comments

    You have probably heard of this little social app called WordPress. I’m not going to say I haven’t, but it wasn’t till earlier this year that I was able to sit down and play with this beauty. But time has not been my friend lately and I have not “really, really” played with WordPress...

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    Magento System Cron Settings . . . and You!

    by  • September 14, 2011 • Magento • 10 Comments

    Yeah, this little monster can really keep you up at night. Located in System > Configuration > Advanced > System > Cron (Scheduled Tasks) These settings are very critical to making sure all scheduled tasks fire correctly. What tends to throw your Magento store into a crazy ball of fire breathing bloated monkeys is...

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    Magento Cron and Google Sitemap Auto Generate Mystery Solved

    by  • September 10, 2011 • Magento • 7 Comments

    After major testing and messing around with code we were able to figure out on some Magento installs why Google Sitemap would auto-generate and others would not. Turns out to be a combination of conflicts with other cron scheduling, server resources, the Cron Configuration and Google Sitemap cron configuration. Lots of variables. The solution...

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