How to move ZenCart to another server

I’ve moved so many Zen carts to many servers before, so this is my input to help out some developers out there trying to move a zencart over to another server environment. Check for version compatibility: Every Zencart has its version, check to make sure that the Zencart version is compatible with the PHPMySQL version where you want to move the cart to. Don’t proceed next step if the new server is not compatible to your old Zencart version. Try to download the latest or…

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X-Monitoring for X-Cart is the must have

Yesterday I re-installed X-Cart Gold for 1 of my customers and the Apache server keeps failing over the last night while we were asleep. If X-Monitoring wasn’t enabled in X-Cart Admin module settings, we could have never found out that our server was down last night. X-Monitoring was a built-in module in X-Cart package when you pay for the license, you can log in to Admin area and turn it on or off. I’d recommend you leave it on by default. By the way, during…

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How to stop a webpage from auto refreshing constantly

There’re a few questions related to this matter I received today from my clients. Some of them have tried “break;” and “window.stop();” and “pause();” and “window.location.reload(false);”, … you name it; however, non of them works. There’s a trick to reload a webpage once and stop the webpage from auto-refreshing itself. At the end of the URL, add the pound sign like this # in the Get or Post URL. Then when you retrieve the value by GET/POST variables, remember to remove the # sign by…

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Editor issue with fresh installation of WordPress 3.5.1

For those of you who install fresh WordPress 3.5.1, you may experience some buttons / links of the HTML editor didn’t work such as the toggle between View/Text button, the Add Media or Add Image button. If it behaves so, this is another option you can do to fix it. 1) Back up all your WP files and Database 2) Go to this website http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/ and download Version 3.4.2. 3) Install on your server. 4) Now log in as WP Admin and upgrade to 3.5.1.…

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Between WordPress and Joomla, what should I use?

Up until todate, we’ve received a few questions about what to choose between WordPress and Joomla from our new clients. So we do some research and this is the best comparisons of the two most popular CRMs right now. This document was created back in January 2013 by Redgiantdesign so it’s considered to be quite recent. Please click on this link to view the entire comparison in graphic.

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