Tag: site performance
3 Design Tweaks to Help Your WooCommerce Store Gain a Competitive Advantage
This is a guest post from Cody Landefeld, founder at Mode Effect and senior web strategist. In 2010, Cody and his wife Raquel founded Mode Effect after creating WordPress sites for clients over the past 8 years. They’ve since found...
3 Ways Help Scout Improves Your Customer Service
This is post 1 of 5 in the series “Improving Customer Service” This series covers helpful plugins and integrations for WordPress to improve your eCommerce store’s customer service. 3 Ways Help Scout Improves Your Customer Service Improving Customer Service with...
3 Essential Insurance Policies for eCommerce Sites
Using a quality managed WordPress hosting provider goes a long way towards keeping your site in top shape. For example, most managed hosting companies will provide: automated daily backups of your site staging sites or development areas for testing great...
11 Sites to Learn More About eCommerce
I got an interesting question this weekend that I thought would make a great post to share today. I was asked which sites I find useful for learning more about eCommerce, and I have a list of several that I...
How to add a custom sales status to WP eCommerce
WP eCommerce includes several core sales statuses that can be used to manage the orders in your shop. Incomplete sale: customer added items to the cart but didn’t finish the purchase Order received: order created but awaiting payment (i.e., a...
Why You Should A/B Test Your WordPress eCommerce Site
While the term “A/B testing” has become popular in the last couple of years, the discipline as a whole remains largely underutilized. If you manage an eCommerce store you understand the importance of optimizing your conversion rate, and A/B testing...
Do you want premium plugins or themes for free?
Okay, so I almost feel guilty about the clickbait title. Almost. But not really; I think that today’s post is something that many store owners should be aware of, so I’m trying to use the clickbait powers for good. Anyway,...
eCommerce Hosting: SiteGround vs Media Temple vs DreamPress
This is post 4 of 5 in the series “Head to Head” This series pits plugins and services against one another in head-to-head comparisons. Selling Digital Products: Selz vs Easy Digital Downloads Easy Digital Downloads vs WP eStore WordPress Form...
Getting Help with Your eCommerce Site
You’re a store administrator or a business owner. You know how to use WordPress – you’re most likely considered a power user. You may have tested a few eCommerce platforms (or you’ve just read our reviews 😉 ), and your...
Ask Sell with WP: What do you recommend?
We have several readers that ask us, what eCommerce plugin would you recommend if…? or which membership plugin should I use if…?. Many times, the answer is, “It depends.” Your needs, the size of your site in terms of traffic...
Optimized Social Media: WPSSO Plugin Review
Why Social Media? We’ve got a WPSSO plugin review (WordPress Social Sharing Optimization) lined up for you today, which is a really nifty social sharing tool. However, before we go into some detail about the plugin and what it does,...
How Your Site Design Could Improve Sales
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Chris Palmer. Chris is the founder of Angle of Attack, which is a successful membership site that specializes in Flight Simulator Training and teaching to real world standards. He also writes at...