Recently I decided to change the way categories are displayed on my gifts website and, with an FTP client, removed the files that run BetterCategories.
Unfortunately Zen Cart would only display a white blank page and return a 500 error. I knew the server was working as this blog and my images were being served correctly [...]
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Do you need to add more pages to Zen-cart to customise for your own use?
E-Z pages are useful but take up space in your database so instead I prefer to simply add new pages that would have the url as page_4, page_5 etc. Using this method it is also easy to create titles and descriptions [...]
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It’s easy with our free date reminder service. Simply:
create an account
enter your special date
enter a note to remind you what the date means
10 days before that date arrives we will email you a reminder. Our date reminder service is great for any occasion and completely free of charge.
If you run Zen cart why not offer [...]
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Earlier I commented on the fix for PayPal Express and Zen Cart but unfortunately it broke again. I asked PayPal to investigate as it looked as if the wrong country code was being passed - they were helpful but did not find a problem so it was back to the shopping cart php code.
Customers could [...]
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You need to be top of the search engine result and you understand about on-page optimization and have done the basics.
Now what? How do you take your site from the middle of the pile and push and pull it slowly to the promised land of the top 5 positions?
And slowly here is the key. I’m [...]
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Zen cart occasionally returns PayPal Pro code 7 error for Maestro payments. This indicates either an issue number or start date is required. Often customers are unable to enter a start date and if the issue number is left blank the payment will fail.
Switch is now known as Maestro yet banks issue cards in both [...]
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I wanted to adjust the Zen Cart customer sign up to make it more straightforward and not to collect information that would not be used. After all, potential customers can be wary of giving out personal information are are suspicious when fields are asked for that are not strictly required for an on-line transaction for [...]
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PayPal express was still not showing shipping or billing addresses - a known bug in ZenCart when using Payflow Pro UK - see previous post.
After altering line 1825 in paypalwpp.php file as well as the previous fix it works fine. Credit cards processing and PayPal express back to normal.
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