Magento critical security patch SUPEE-5994 ftp install without SSH

To update the customer e-mail templates follow this guide to create new templates from the originals if desired.  Don’t forget to assign the new template to e-mail, in my case Settings>Config>Sales>Sales E-mails click the drop down and select the new template.

After struggling with finding the correct location of the file to edit I found it here  Find this file in folder via ftp skin/frontend/default/THEMENAME/css/styles.css – my THEMENAME was rwd Search for logo in the file – approx line 3267 and change the max-width and max-height from 300 and 90 to whatever. On my store the logo…

I had an issue with the main category and sub category not displaying products when the main category is clicked on, I only got a page with 0 products in category. The solution found here was simple but unbeknown to me: Go to Admin -> Catalog -> Manage Categories -> “Select Category” -> Display Settings ->…

Using the Magento backup tool from within magento 1.9 causes my store to show an internal server error. To reset this I had to change the permissions of the index.php file in the root dir to 644 from 666.  It is a known issue. There is an alternative is to upload a php file called…