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Enes Ertuğrul

Enes Ertuğrul

Opensource addict and supporter, Arastta Co-founder, Optimum Theme. Married and father of Firuze Meryem.


Is your free Shopping Cart software really "free"? Free and Open Source software is becoming a "standard" in the last years. Giants like Google, Facebook and even Microsoft started to embracing the Open Source for some of their services and products. We, as developers, know that it's possible to provide a product for free and open source and make a good income from it. But we have to think twice about the "free" definition before diving into while it's very easy to find lots...

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Arastta 1.6 Today, Arastta team is pleased to announce Arastta 1.6 stable version with great new features, improvements and bug fixes. As always, you can update your current Arastta to the latest version with one-click from the Arastta admin panel's update center. Please see update instructions below for more details. You can download the latest stable version and start to create your free eCommerce store today: Download Arastta 1.6 This new release is named Tianjin which is a...
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Arastta 1.5 Today, it's update time for Arasttians! Arastta 1.5 [Nairobi] is released with tons of new features and bug fixes. Aratta is more powerful now. This release is named Nairobi which is the capital and largest city of Kenya. We would like to thank everyone who contrubitued to Arastta 1.5 with bug reports, development, suggestions and tests. You can download the latest stable version and start to create your free eCommerce store today: Download Arastta 1.5 You...
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Arastta Official Mobile App Arastta is pleased to announce its official mobile app for iOS and Android. It's now more easier to manage and update your Arastta store from anywhere, at anytime. After months of work, last month we have released Arastta official iOS app on AppStore and the last week Arastta Android app took its place on Google Play Store. We would like to thank to our community for their tests and feedbacks. Thus, currently, Arastta mobile app for...
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Arastta 1.4

Today, we are pleased to announce release of Arastta 1.4 stable version. As always, Arastta's new version came with great new features, improvements and of course bug fixes.

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Arastta 1.3.2 Released

Today we released a new maintenance update for Arastta which addresses some bug fixes, changes and improvements. As always it’s very easy to update your current store to the latest version, Arastta 1.3.2

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Arastta 1.3 Released It's always excited to meet with a new version of a software which brings lots of new features and improvements. And Arastta 1.3 [Kastamonu] version is one of them because it brings tons of new features, improvements, changes and bug fixes... We can divide all updates into 3 main categories: eCommerce (store), Management (back-end) and System (infrastructure). You can find detailed information about what's new and improved below. But before that, I want to mention about...
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Migrate your Online Store (Cart) to Arastta

We all know that choosing the right software and platform for a specific need is a very difficult task. You need to compare all options and alternatives available and at the end of day you have to make one choice.

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Arastta Cloud - Fully Open Source Cloud eCommerce

It was last February that we have started Arastta journey with our slogan "Solid, Free, Community Driven eCommerce" and now after 1 year we are excited to announce the next-big-thing for the Arastta users: Arastta Cloud.

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Arastta 1.2

Today we are thrilled to announce availability of Arastta 1.2 "Shkoder" stable. Arastta 1.2 is available for download and update from dashboards.

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File Manager Feature - Arastta Tips / Tricks

Arastta is a feature-rich eCommerce software, so it provides lots of advanced features to manage your online store easily and effectively. I'm sure you all have "aahaa" moments that you discover something new within your software or a tool you use for a long time.

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Arastta 1.1 Released We are so excited and proud to announce Arastta 1.1 [Wellington]. This version of Arastta contains lots of new and exciting features, improvements and bug fixes. Here are some of the exciting new features: Multilingual Installer Facebook Store PDF Invoice System Information tool Option to not install demo data Option to select the DB driver during installation Option to set admin first/last name in installer Hide/Show dashboard modules Admin menu event for developers Wappalyzer integration As...

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Arastta Cares Open Source Arastta is developed by people who contributed, work with and support most popular Open Source and free to use projects like Joomla and Wordpress. Co-founders of this project organised and sponsored Joomla days and meetings in Istanbul, Melbourne, New England cities. They joined Joomla Days, J&Beyond - international Joomla organisations and WordCamp Europe (international WordPress conference). So people who founded Arastta have a deep Open Source, contribution and copyright culture. And we are going to share...

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In our recent blog post we talked about why Arastta is an ideal choice for designers" and now I am going to share some of the main reasons "why Arastta is the ideal choice for eCommerce developers". One-click Update For security or bug fix, updates are one of the most important factors of a secure and stable system (CMS, eCommerce, blogs etc). But updating a system via FTP clients by overriding the current files and upload...

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Arastta is an ideal choice for end-users, designers, developers and storeowners. Today I would like to write about "why designers choose Arastta"? Of course I am not able to provide every detail here, since Arastta is an ideal choice as a whole project for every need but here is the best parts from designer's point of view:

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Special Commission Offer for Developers

When we started to develop Arastta we aim to ease, liberate and make accessible eCommerce for everybody. To achieve this we need to grow our users, developers and supporters all over the world because Arastta is a community-driven project. More people get involved in this project, more Arastta project becomes for everybody.