Software Reviews

Nginx double redirect problem: Quickly writing this to help out anybody who is trying to fix a double redirect on their Nginx site for backlinks coming in on non-www on an http protocol. On a site that is using Cloudflare as a CDN. You may be scratching your head when looking at the results of…

GoDaddy Domain Transfer to Another Registrar Domain Transfer: This is one of those posts I feel I had to write, just in case it helps one single person. Moving a .com domain from GoDaddy to Namecheap.com as it is about a third of the price to register it there. GoDaddy has a reasonable process for…

  How to Add Metadata to existing Order Metadata: You’d be forgiven for thinking you couldn’t as the docs only mention Product meta and Shop meta. You can add metadata to an existing order that was created through the normal order flow (or an admin order) and not the API. This Stackoverflow answer pointed me…

  WordPress under Magento multistore This is a ‘Note to Self’ as much as anything else. It’s explains how we got the WordPress install to work on a Magento multistore using country stub directories. The SO question it relates to is here; http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32613815/htaccess-wordpress-under-magento-site-with-multi-language-sub-directories We have this in production, hopefully this answer might help someone at…

  WordPress, Git and Capistrano Updates I’m writing this blog post because I’ve had to add a WordPress site into a Magento site which uses Capistrano 3 as it’s deployment framework. I was trying to work out the best way to set it all up and Googling it resulted in a right load of shit.…

New Site Launched No blog can be without the obligatory ‘New Site launched’ post. Maybe I should do as many clients do – I’ll delete all the other posts in this blog and just have this one, advertising the new blog. Leave it there for two years on it’s own some talking about all the…