WooCommerce
Exploring the Ups and Downs of Custom Solutions for WooCommerce
Custom solutions and custom development for WooCommerce comes with both blessings and curses. Before we dive into the difference, let’s define what a custom WooCommerce solution is: Anywhere on a website where custom code has been written in place of downloading or purchasing software to achieve a desired function is technically a custom solution. Custom…
Read MoreHow to Scale Your Online Store with WooCommerce
One of the reasons eCommerce businesses turn to WooCommerce is because it is widely recognized as “scalable,” meaning functions can expand alongside the business. Of course, as Chris Lema pointed out earlier this year, “scaling” is relative to what a business uses to measure success. And within a business different people will have different opinions…
Read MoreCreating a Shipping Method for WooCommerce
If you run an eCommerce business, you know that fast, secure shipping is an essential part of each sale and can make or break a loyal customer. eCommerce customers expect orders to process quickly and accurately, can be traced, and are easy to return via mail if necessary. The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has sent more…
Read MoreUsing the WooCommerce Conversion Tracking Plugin to Drive Sales
As an eCommerce seller, you rely on tracking your customers’ shopping habits to know the best-sellers, how well coupons are performing, what items resonate among customers in certain demographics and so on. Most of all, you’re interested in what drives your repeat customers to keep coming back and replicating that success across the board.…
Read MoreExploring eCommerce Options: WooCommerce vs. Shopify
Here at Mode Effect, we’re team WooCommerce, but we can’t deny that not every store is the best fit to start or continue their journey on any particular eCommerce platform. So it’s always good to be educated on any particular platform you are considering for your online store. So here is an overview of WooCommerce…
Read MoreEverything You Need to Know to Set-Up Google Ads Conversion Tracking on WooCommerce
Are you considering using Google Ads to bring more traffic to your store? This can be huge for your business! However, paid traffic and specifically learning how to use Google Ads can be an expensive and daunting task for a store owner. So it’s important to understand all you can know about Google Ads before…
Read MoreSummer of Woo: Wrap up of our May, June, & July WooCommerce Meetups
There’s been a lot of excitement in our WooCommerce Phoenix community over the past few months. It’s been great to see our community thrive and find it’s bearings. I always feel so proud to say I’m from WordPress Phoenix because of our deeply engaged community. ☺️ Three events have happened since we last checked in.…
Read MoreWPAZ WooCommerce Meetup: March/April Wrap
We had some pretty awesome WooCommerce Meetups for March & April! March We had a brand new speaker present. Parker Mathewson, the founder of The Rite Sites, graced us with his expertise on The Problems and Opportunities of Migrating to WooCommerce. After his talk, Parker was accommodating in answering plenty of developer-related questions about migrating…
Read MoreWooCommerce WPAZ Meetup: January/February Wrap
After skipping December because almost our entire team was out of town due to WordCamp US, we came in strong for 2019 with two successful meetups! The first being January 2nd! I was concerned that it’d be too soon into the new year as it was only day 2 but I was pleasantly surprised! It…
Read MoreHow to Set Up a New WooCommerce Store
This post was originally posted at WooCommerce.com as a 5-part boot camp series for store owners considering using WooCommerce. If you are starting from scratch, head to WooCommerce.com/start to get a basic site in place. If you already have a self-hosted WordPress site or a WordPress.com site with a Business plan, head to the Plugins section of your…
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