Weekly Roundup: October 3, 2014

Giveaways, new themes, new plugins, tutorials, and sales – this week was a busy one for eCommerce!

• Easy Digital Downloads released a Zapier extension last week, and wrote a post on how to automate your store with Zapier this week.

• WooThemes has created a WooCommerce Essentials bundle that puts 10 popular WooCommerce extensions on sale for 25% off.

• Here’s a great tutorial on creating WooCommerce coupons via Gravity Forms from Gravity Wiz.

• Speaking of WooCommerce, here’s a tutorial for those of you using Social Login on how to display login buttons elsewhere on your site from SkyVerge.

• WP Lift is running a giveaway for 7 free plugins for WooCommerce.

• WP Touch has released a new, focused on mobile theme for WooCommerce.

• If you’re looking for an all-in-one platform for hosting, membership, and/or eCommerce for digital products, you should give the trial of the Rainmaker platform a go.

• If you sell Apple Store apps, you should check out the new WPSSO addon: App Meta, which will help you create a banner for your app in the mobile Safari to encourage customers to purchase right from their phones, no matter which page or product page links to the app. The Pro version will also add App store Twitter cards to your site.

• The folks behind Conductor plugin have an interesting article on launching an affiliate program and why they use Shareasale.

• We typically recommend using AffiliateWP for affiliate programs, who just published a tutorial on how to force new commission referrals for affiliates.

• Looking for small customization jobs or site tweaks? Here’s a good article on why you should use Codeable from Patrick Rauland.

• Ecwid has made some changes to their platform recently, including a set of new order statuses and fulfillment statuses.

• WP EasyCart has also made an update that adds some new features, such as improvements to order exports and shipping / tax rates.

• Entrepreneur posted an overview of the 7 Essential WordPress plugins for your site.

• WP Mayor has a review of Gravity View, which can help you build paid listings or directories with Gravity Forms.

• Here’s a post from Forbes geared towards answering which eCommerce platform is right for you.

• Web Savvy Marketing released a Genesis child theme this week that supports WooCommerce, Exchange, and WP eCommerce.

Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy your weekend!