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Nothing like a scavenger hunt to contact someone, right? Well, you’ve found me, and if you would like to talk, go ahead and email me.

Contact me directly at rob@sandusky.ws

So, recently I’ve found a pile of fake domains that are all linked to a blogger.com profile for “Mort Walker” I’m guessing this is a fake name.

The basic setup is to roll out a pile of heavily optimized websites with a virtual phone number. When you call the number it rings to a local company that provides the service you’re requesting. Once he has really good placement, it’s assumed they will reach out to offer to sell the blog to your client.

Watch out for Mort Walker, obvious scammer.

https://www.blogger.com/profile/10959888739113468343

Recently, one of my clients reached out to say there is a new towing company near them; when you dial this companies number, it is forwarded to my client.

http://eastlansingtowingservice.blogspot.com/ Is running a squatting scam, they launched several sites around michigan. All have the same images and content, just a different virtual number that is local to the market they are communicating with.

So, if you are looking for towing in East Lansing avoid eastlansingtowingservice.blogspot.com

As far as I can find, since it’s a blogger blog, the name associated is Mort Walker.

Need to help your clients run a new store here is a key of what is where and how to use it.

Sections of Magento and what they are for:

Dashboard:
the Dashboard has a snapshot of what is happening in the store, it will list things like last 5 orders, last 5 search terms, top search terms, and revenue.

Sales:
the Sales section is where you will process transactions once the credit card nonsense is worked out, it’s also where you can issue refunds and partial credits.

Sales -> Orders:
Lists All pending, and completed orders, for more details click on “View” to view any given order
from the order view you can change the status, email the customer, print packing lists, invoice the order or add shipping info

The rest of the sales section will mostly be avoided, unless tax rates change or you start invoicing people to pay after the fact

Catalog:
the Catalog section allows you to manage the products and categories as well as moderate product reviews and ratings.

Catalog -> Manage Products: (Add/Edit/Remove)
on the Manage products view you can type in any of the search fields at the top to perform a search; this helps to locate an item that you are updating.
Updating products is pretty simple, open the product by clicking the row or “Edit” once you’re done making changes press save product

Adding Product
Step 1: Attribute Set (Each type of product has a custom set of attributes to select the type of product your adding)
Step 2: Product Type (You use simple products)

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The next section is broken down in to parts such as General and Prices where you click on each before pressing save.

General: Name, Description, Short Description, SKU etc…
Prices: Enter a price and select Tax Class of Taxable
Meta Information: This is for optimization and should be similar to the product title, description and keywords
Images: provides a simple image uploader, for the selections
(Base Image is the first shown on the product page, Small is for cart, and thumb is for the category pages)
Categories: Select where the item belongs.

for the most part you will not need to do anything with recurring profile, design, gift options

When you are done updating the info press Save to save the product and make it live on the site.

Catalog -> Manage Categories: (Add/Edit/Remove)
I would recommend asking before making any changes in this section.

** The rest of the Catalog links are of no real use to you

Customers:
the Customers section allows you to make changes to the customer entities, along with exporting customer lists for email marketing

Promotions:
in the promo’s section you can setup specials like add a Meto 722 and Save X on XX labels for it, however, I would recommend having me help with these as they can be very tricky.

Newsletter:
You can setup and manage a newsletter from the store admin section

CMS:
CMS -> Pages: This is where most of the static pages like about us are stored and updated.
CMS -> Static Blocks, nothing here for you
CMS -> Widgets, avoid this as well

Reports:
Some basic date selectable reports such as Sales, Cart Abandonment etc…

System:
I’d say your best bet is to avoid the system area as well, and ask for help before making any changes

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Ok,. so today’s fun lesson has to do with Magento CE, or community edition.

Recently there was a pile of patches released to stop bad guys from doing bad things with your magento store. We decided to upgrade to the latest stable release and opted for Magento CE 1.9.2 which includes these patches.

All went smoothly and everything seemed to be working fine then when a customer notified us that you couldn’t finish checking out I knew something was wrong.

After spending more than an hour it became obvious that something was wrong with the final step of check out and when you would press Process Order it would just reload the same screen.

We had created a full blown template with the file /default/{template}/template/checkout/onepage/review/info.phtml and in the upgrade process this was protected as it’s in our custom template folder, however the file functions related to that page have been updated in version 1.9.2.

To fix our problem I copied the line from /base/default/template/checkout/onepage/review/info.phtml to my custom template and it began working instantly.

:: review function 1.4
// review = new Review(‘getUrl(‘checkout/onepage/saveOrder’) ?>’, ‘getUrl(‘checkout/onepage/success’) ?>’, $(‘checkout-agreements’));

:: review function magento 1.9.2 ::
review = new Review(‘getUrl(‘checkout/onepage/saveOrder’, array(‘form_key’ => Mage::getSingleton(‘core/session’)->getFormKey())) ?>’, ‘getUrl(‘checkout/onepage/success’) ?>’, $(‘checkout-agreements’));

So simply comment out the old version if you’re in the same boat and update to the newer version.

Probably my fault since I installed the wrong patch,. apparently you shouldn’t patch 1.9.1.1 with the patch for 1.7.1 as it duplicates a function in the file Abstract.php

If you are seeing this warning,. Cannot redeclare Mage_Core_Block_Abstract::quoteEscape

You need to edit your /app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php file and remove the duplicate function the escape quotes, go to line 1205 or so, and you will see it’s duplicated just below.