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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.
Website Security: The Measures That Actually Matter
Almost nobody attacking your site has chosen you. That is good news, because the defences that stop automated attacks are unglamorous, mostly free, and take an afternoon.
404 Errors and Custom Error Pages for Your Shop
Most of the 404s in Search Console want leaving alone. Which ones actually matter, what to do with discontinued products, and why a soft 404 is the one genuinely worth fixing.
Argon2id Password Hashing in CubeCart: What It Means for Your Store
CubeCart now hashes passwords with Argon2id and migrates existing accounts transparently on login. Why memory-hard hashing matters, and the hosting requirement that could mean you are not getting it.
CubeCart 6.6.3: Argon2id Passwords, a Better Dashboard and Smarter Search
CubeCart 6.6.3 upgraded password hashing to Argon2id with transparent migration, overhauled the admin dashboard and made six improvements to Elasticsearch relevance.
Long Tail Keywords: What They Are and Why They Matter
You are not going to outrank the big players for the obvious term. Long tail phrases are where a small site actually competes, and they convert far better. How to find them free.
Structured Data for E-Commerce: Getting Rich Results Right
Structured data tells search engines exactly what is on your page. It will not improve your rankings, but it is what puts prices, stock status and star ratings under your listing.
Managing CubeCart Extensions: Marketplace, Visibility and Maintenance
You can now see which extensions are installed, which are disabled, which hooks they own and which scheduled tasks they run. Plus a twice-yearly routine worth adopting.