Posts by David Miller (325)
The Hidden Cost of a Bad Product-Feed Integration
A cheap or unmaintained supplier and marketplace feed integration can oversell stock you don't have, damage a long-running marketplace listing, and sell below cost — without throwing a single...
Seven Years, Three Reviews, One Afternoon
A module on sale for seven years had three reviews — all posted the same afternoon. That isn’t proof of anything, but it’s a question worth asking. A calm, no-names method for telling real social...
How to Vet a PrestaShop Module Before Installing It on a Live Store
Twelve black-box checks you can run from a browser and your back office — no PHP needed — to tell whether a PrestaShop module is safe before it touches your live store.
Not Malicious. Just Careless — What a PrestaShop Module Can Do That Uninstall Won't Undo
A paid module loaded a third-party font on every page for a feature used on one screen. It wasn't malware — just careless. And uninstalling doesn't undo what a module already did.
What PrestaShop Attackers Actually Target: 1.1 Million Real Attacks, Analyzed
We instrumented our own fleet of live PrestaShop stores and recorded every malicious request for six weeks — about 1.1 million of them. Here is what attackers actually target, with the numbers, and...
Their Employee Left. We Run the Store — and Couldn't Prove the Access Left Too.
We build and look after other businesses' PrestaShop stores. When a client's employee left, the offboarding was ours to get right — and it taught us hard lessons about the credential lifecycle, why...
We Lost 95% of Our Google Traffic Overnight. Bing Still Ranks Us Top 3.
Our Google traffic fell ~95% overnight while Bing kept ranking us top 3. The honest forensic post-mortem: a self-inflicted Link.php bug, the crawled-not-indexed trust verdict, and what still has...
How I Run a One-Person PrestaShop Module Business with a Fleet of AI Agents
A few months ago I discovered my AI agents had left 154 git repositories dirty — and the fix wasn't a better prompt, it was an org chart. Here are the scars.
Is One-Click Checkout Possible in PrestaShop?
"One-click checkout" is the most repeated phrase in e-commerce and the most misunderstood. Here's when true one-click is actually possible in PrestaShop, why EU SCA makes it non-guaranteeable, and...
How to Schedule Price Changes in PrestaShop: Products, Categories & Automation Limits
PrestaShop price changes are really three different jobs. Here is what is native, where it stops, and the one place you genuinely need automation.
Introducing Expert Services: PrestaShop Audits Before You Buy Another Module
We're launching Expert Services for PrestaShop: 12 audits, advisory, and build services built on one rule — diagnose before you spend. An audit tells you whether you need a fix, a module, config...
Is It Safe to Give a PrestaShop Auditor Access to Your Store?
You want an audit, but handing a stranger keys to your PrestaShop store feels risky. That worry is legitimate. Here's exactly what access each type of audit actually needs (often just your URL),...
How to Tell If Your PrestaShop Store Needs an SEO Audit
Not every PrestaShop store needs a paid SEO audit — and not every ranking problem needs a module. This guide walks through the concrete warning signs, gives you a 15-minute self-check you can run...
Signs Your PrestaShop Store Needs a Security Audit (And How to Self-Check First)
Not sure if your PrestaShop store is exposed? Here are the concrete signs that warrant a security audit — old PrestaShop versions, stale modules, default admin paths, a checkout that looks slightly...
Is Your PrestaShop Store Slow? Measure Before You Optimize
A slow PrestaShop store rarely has the cause you assume. Installing another caching module before you diagnose the real bottleneck usually wastes money and time. Here is what a proper performance...