GDPR is General Data Protection Rule as created by Europe. Basic bottom line is that it possibly affects all ecommerce world-wide. The truth is no one really knows what will happen for cart owners outside of Europe but be aware you could be affected. I read a number of articles before started this and in reality all I gleaned was that the GDPR is a very long winded policy with no details that are instructive to small cart owners. This page by a US based lawyer does address… Read more
February 22, 2018 – 3:34 pm
I have had a couple of complaints recently about the Zen Cart contact form and spam. It's been years since I've had any complaints and thought it was just a one time thing; however, that might not be the case. At some point, the developers added in a hidden field that took care of the problem but it looks like the spammers have figured out a way around it. The only alternative at the moment is to install the Google Recaptcha (which I hate) found here in the… Read more
February 15, 2018 – 11:56 am
I've always warned folks that putting WordPress on the same hosting as ecommerce could be a hacker's dream. I hadn't seen any hacks in such a long time, I was beginning to wonder how correct I might be. Well, sorry, folks but a client just discovered her site was hacked and she does have a blog. A blog she was rarely ever posting on and certainly not checking her necessary updates in the WP admin. It does look like WP was used to gain access to the hosting… Read more
February 14, 2018 – 12:16 pm
The Final 1.5.5? 1.5.5f for Zen Cart was released 31 Dec 2017 but contained only a few bug fixes and one major addition of Square now being a built-in payment module. That's great news for sure; however, Square should not be a major factor in deciding whether to upgrade now or not. The good news is that 1.5.5f is supposed to be the final stable version. That's why I've started upgrading. If your host changes the server PHP version to 7, well, then… Read more
February 14, 2018 – 11:22 am
There has always been one redirect that is Google mandated for SEO. That is to standardize the use of www vs non-www. Allowing use of both on a website can appear as two different urls with the same content. In the long run, this really isn't very important but does tend to be the first step for SEO work. To avoid that penalty, one can use a redirect to make the visitor use one preferred url. So what is the preferred code? Believe it or not, I got new instructions… Read more
