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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lots of WooCommerce announcements. What’s next?
There's been a lot of WooCommerce announcements recently. A few weeks ago GoDaddy announced a massive enhancement to their WooCommerce hosting, by offering loads of value via the SkyVerge extensions (via the acquisition of SkyVerge last year). This is the ...
How to use WooCommerce without Product Pages
I knew I was going to use WooCommerce. The challenge I did have, however, was that the standard WooCommerce approach defaults initial routing to a classic Products Page - which, for my needs, was useless. Here's what I did.
Last Week in WooCommerce: WooCommerce Growth
WooCommerce continues to Grow In the early years of WooCommerce, folks would characterize it as a solution for tiny stores. Great if you had a blog and wanted to add a store to it – since both your blog and ...
Last Week in WooCommerce: The Challenge with Theme Templates
Each week I tell you what's happened in the world of eCommerce – and specifically WooCommerce. Last week WooCommerce rolled out their latest (minor) release, 5.0 and you can read about the entire release on their blog. That's it. That's ...
Last Week in WooCommerce: The Checkout Experience
We were about to go on a vacation. The kind where I would be away from work for a week and I would mostly relax by a pool and listen to music on my iPod. The night before we headed ...
Last Week in WooCommerce: Driving Traffic to Your Store
Everyone wants to drive traffic Whether you're a freelance store builder, or work with an agency, you likely know that once an online store is built, the project isn't over. It may feel like the work is done, but in ...
Last Week in WooCommerce: WooCommerce Reviews
WooCommerce Reviews are Powerful Every week I share with you what's been going on in WooCommerce in the last week. This past week the latest version (4.9) was released. They made some things faster (including the API), and they worked ...