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CubeCart 6.7.4: Right of Withdrawal, CLI Cron and a Refactored REST API
CubeCart 6.7.4 added a statutory cancellation workflow for UK and EU merchants, a proper command line cron runner, and gzip compression of order baskets.
Magecart Attacks: How Card Skimming Works and How to Stop It
Magecart injects JavaScript into your checkout to copy card details as customers type. The shop keeps working, the order completes, and nothing looks broken. Here is how it gets in and what actually reduces the risk.
The CubeCart Image Picker Rewrite: Small Change, Big Time Saving
One shared image component everywhere, image search across the file manager, per-option product images, and uploads that select themselves. Plus the protective htaccess worth checking after a migration.
CubeCart Audit, Request and Error Logs: Knowing What Your Store Did
CubeCart now records every admin action with actor, IP and a diff, logs outbound HTTP calls, and deduplicates error rows so the log is actually readable.
CubeCart Email Overhaul: Async Sending, Open Tracking and Template Preview
CubeCart email now sends asynchronously via cron, tracks opens, and generates plain text automatically. It also shipped with a bug that sent blank order confirmations, fixed in 6.7.2.
Converting MyISAM Tables to InnoDB: Why and How
MySQL moved away from MyISAM in 2010, but plenty of WordPress, WooCommerce and older store databases are still quietly running on it. Table level locking costs you exactly when you are busiest.
CubeCart Sales Reports: The Seven Reports and How to Use Them
Seven built-in reports with xlsx export, including the Search Terms report that tells you what shoppers looked for and did not find. Plus the pagination bug that made earlier exports unreliable.
CubeCart 6.7.0: Sales Reports, Email Overhaul and Audit Logging
CubeCart 6.7.0 added a full sales reporting suite, asynchronous email with open tracking, and an audit log. It also removed the in-app database backup tool and the cookie consent banner.
Hotlink Protection: Worth Enabling, Easy to Overdo
Other sites displaying your images from your server costs you bandwidth and gives away your product photography. Blocking it is a checkbox, and breaking your own Google Images traffic is just as easy.
CubeCart and Elasticsearch: Better Relevance, and the Failure to Watch For
Six relevance improvements, a graceful fallback when the cluster is down, and a quiet failure mode where the indexer reports success but indexes almost nothing.