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The Success of WooCommerce Premium Extensions: Should You Do It Too?
It's hard to remember the world before WooCommerce premium extensions. If you've not been in the WordPress community for a long time, you might not remember when there were only two kinds of plugins - free and premium. No extensions at all. If you go back to the old days, there were plugins like Contact...
Casual Data Collection: Enhancing WooCommerce User Profiles
What is casual data collection? If you use WooCommerce, you know what WooCommerce User Profiles are. But don't think I spend my days making up phrases like \"casual data collection.\" I'm just not smart enough to figure out if someone else has coined a better phrase. So what is casual data collection? Here's my definition:...
How to add subtitles to a video quickly and easily (for free)
My iPhone is always muted We were sitting in a conference room when someone started getting SMS messages. That's what we called them before we called them \"texts.\" It was a long time ago. But the point was that every message that came in made their phone ding. And then ding again. From that day,...
Running WooCommerce Campaigns
Last week we talked about post-purchased offers. But what about pre-purchase offers? In other words, how do you make running WooCommerce campaigns easier? Let's start by making sure we're all clear on what I mean by a WooCommerce campaign. Assume we want to promote a product - like an iPhone case, a t-shirt, or your...
Choosing the Right WordPress Form Plugin
How do you decide which WordPress form plugin is the right one? Especially between Gravity Forms, Formidable Pro, and Ninja Forms. Here's my take.
Website accessibility is so much easier now
Our websites need to be more accessible Like most people, I can be resistant to change because it means I have to change my mental models. I have to think about things in a different way, and consider things I've never considered before. Web accessibility has been one of those things. Don't get me wrong....
Driving Revenue Growth in the WordPress Ecosystem
My Version of the Story Starts in 2016 I left Crowd Favorite at the start of 2016. We'd just had a major health scare where my wife was bleeding internally and we had to rush to an ER (where things were so severe that we were rushed to the front of the line). My wife...
My Site's WordPress Plugins List
A couple weeks ago I told you that I had changed my theme. One reader wrote back and said, essentially, that's nice but can you get us your WordPress plugins list? I had two immediate thoughts: Are there any extraneous plugins I should clear out before I write about the list?Am I going to create...
I don't care about the feature list, I just want less work
This is an opinion. Just an opinion. If you don't want to hear it, come back tomorrow. More product, agency and business advice then. But this is advice I'm starting to give many of the product developers I'm talking to - specifically plugin folks in the WordPress ecosystem. Mind you, I'm not saying you should...
Anonymous Personalization: Creating a more engaging experience
Is anonymous personalization an oxymoron? Anonymous personalization sounds crazy. Most of our approach to personalization comes after we identify someone. So how can you do it when a website visitor is anonymous? Before I get into it, let me ask you if this has ever happened.... Have you ever visited a website, gone to their...
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