Lots of new / updated plugins as well as some great tutorials this week!
New or Updated Plugins & Themes
- A new add-on for AffiliateWP was release this week: Pay with Points. This integrates with AffiliateWP, WooCommerce, and WooCommerce Points and Rewards to let affiliates convert referrals to points and pay for purchases with points using their own redemption rate.
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WooThemes released a new extension for the free Storefront theme: Storefront Reviews ($19), which lets you display customer reviews on your homepage or with a shortcode.
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The Commissions extension for Easy Digital Downloads was updated this week to add a lot of new features like shortcodes for earnings and graph displays for vendors and the ability to set a minimum earnings threshold for payout file generation.
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A beta for WooCommerce version 2.4 was released this week, so you should begin testing on a staging site if you have one (we’ll have a full review when it’s released). Some templates have changes (mostly for emails), so you should check your template overrides to see if they require updates.
Reviews & Tutorials
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The series of membership plugin reviews from Chris Lema continued this week with these reviews:
- BobWP has a review / tutorial on setting up custom thank you pages with WooCommerce.
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Jeroen Sormani has a tutorial on creating a way to filter orders by customer role for WooCommerce.
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The EDD blog has a guide to using the new Campaign Tracker add-on to monitor Google Analytics campaigns.
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Here’s a quick guide on how to remove WooCommerce product images and links from the cart page from SkyVerge.
Marketing & Optimization
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KISSmetrics has some tips on driving results with promoted pins, which is a handy primer for advertising on Pinterest.
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WooThemes has details on how custom email receipts can improve your customers’ experience.
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I liked the points on offering coupons from eCommerce Fuel this week. One tip mentioned is to hide or rename your coupon fields, which we have tutorials on for WooCommerce stores and for EDD shops.
Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy your weekend!
