Happy Valentine’s Day! As a gift, we’ve amassed a ton of great eCommerce news and updates for this week. Guess all of our WordPress friends needed to get their updates and changes out to enjoy their dates this weekend, as we’ve got news across the board 🙂
- WooCommerce 2.1 was released this week – check out our review for details, or see some of the articles below for more.
- Here’s the update post from WooThemes announcing the release and changes.
- Need some help updating? Check out this post at Develop WC that covers common issues and their fixes, this updating guide, or stop by Daniel Espinoza’s WooCommerce Office Hours today at 12pm EST (17:00 UTC).
- Gerhard Potgieter posted a tutorial to revert variable pricing display to the WooCommerce 2.0 format.
- Another WooCommerce addition: Creating a Tiered Membership Site with Sensei. This tutorial demonstrates how you can create a tiered-membership site with Sensei for your courses with some creative usage.
- One of our contibutors, Clif Griffin, has been hard at work and released several Shopp Add-ons and WordPress plugins recently:
- Shopp Google Analytics, which integrates Shopp with Google Analytics for WordPress
- Shopp Watermark, which allows you to attach a watermark to your Shopp images effortlessly
- Shopp Exchange Rates allows your customers to see prices in their own currency.
- Genesis+Shopp Fusion provides a set of beautiful, responsive theme templates for Shopp and most StudioPress themes.
- WP Sent Mail adds a “Sent Mail” folder to WordPress that shows you exactly what emails your website sends to your customers.
- Easy Digital Downloads released an update to the popular Software Licensing Add-on that adds support for setting license activation limits per each price option.
- Looking for EDD tutorials instead? Sumobi continues his streak by posting a couple more this week: How to change a payment gateway’s checkout label and Linking gallery images to the attachment page.
- MemberPress was updated to version 1.1.3 this week, and added some cool new tools, such as the ability to create custom messages for each member.
- Using MemberMouse? Travis Northcutt posted a great tutorial on how to set up scheduled posts.
- Speaking of memberships, Paid Memberships Pro posted an article on How to Add PayPal Express as an Alternate Payment Option at Checkout.
- Stripe added support for several new currencies this week; WP Tavern has more details here.
- The WordPress Themes by Yoast project is now available, and includes three Genesis child themes.
- Speaking of themes, WP Lift posted a great list of eCommerce themes (both free and paid).
- Chris Lema just posted some advice on selecting a WordPress hosting service, as well as a tutorial on how to create a private review site with Exchange (similar to Angie’s List).
- Looking to do site administration yourself? Buffer has a great beginner’s guide to SEO you can start with, KISSmetrics posted an SEO guide for eCommerce, and Yoast just published a guide to Perfecting your Goals in Google Analytics.
Thanks so much for stopping by, and enjoy your weekend!
