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WooCommerce Payment Gateways: Pay with Amazon
This is part 9 of 30 in a series on improving your WooCommerce Store. We've covered a lot of ground already, as we navigate all the different aspects of improving your WooCommerce store—and if you've you've missed the earlier posts, here are the first eight. WooCommerce Product Comparisons WooCommerce Product URLs Wishlists for Guests Affiliate...
WordPress plugins and auto-renewals
Several years ago I sold my house to a friend. I did all the normal things you do when selling your home—from switching the water and gas to my friend to canceling services like cable. When my wife and I bought our new home, we did all the normal things you do when buying a...
Recommending the best cache plugin for WordPress
In my experience, there are three ways to determine how to recommend any plugin as the best for any particular area, including the best cache plugin for WordPress. The first is simply based on a proven track record. In other words, you use an organization's history to prove its product's future. The second is based on performance. In...
Why I recommend ConvertKit to Infusionsoft users
Most of my conversations about Infusionsoft end up sounding exactly the same. And it's not the fault of InfusionSoft. Have you ever talked to someone about Infusionsoft? If you're anything like me, you now know that there are only two kinds of people in the world - people who haven't tried Infusionsoft yet, or people...
Building a site without any Genesis child themes
If you've been paying attention in the last few weeks, I spun up a new site on leadership, and now I've started a new site for headphones. Soon I'll have another one on cigars. Each of these are dedicated sites that don't need a lot except for a way to present their content and do...
Breaking into WordPress? Have a new product idea?
Six months ago, a friend asked me a question that put a bug in my brain. \"What if you created a course on breaking into WordPress?\" He knew that I had coached and consulted with several companies who were trying to break into the ecosystem and thought it was a no-brainer. I kept thinking about...
A code review can help your slow site
Is your site running slowly? There are an incredible number of resources available to help you determine what's going on with your slow site. If you've never used any of them, or don't know what's available, here's a quick list. Pingdom Tools: This site will let you put in your domain name (chrislema.com) or any...
The roadblocks to hosting partnerships
Every week or two I get on a Clarity call with a product company that is sure they're a perfect match for a particular (or any) hosting company. On most of my calls they want advice on approaching these hosting companies. Sometimes they want me to do the introductions for them—as they're not known, and...
WooCommerce vs Easy Digital Downloads: How to pick?
Both WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads turn WordPress into a powerful eCommerce application. How do you know when to choose which? Some people will tell you that the simple answer is to always go with WooCommerce since: It's really popular It's has massive market share (37%) It does it all But I don't think that...
How do you find the best WordPress slider?
How do you find the best WordPress slider? Compare 20 of them. In 2013 I reviewed slider plugins for performance. It's been a long time since I circled back because, after all, these are sliders and I'm not that much of a fan. But that doesn't mean clients don't ask about them. So I decided to...
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