Your interesting fact for the week: WordPress now powers 25% of the internet! ?
New or Updated Plugins & Themes
- Easy Digital Downloads has two new extensions available this week! An EDD ConvertKit integration lets you sign customers up to ConvertKit mailing lists, while EDD Checkout Message lets you display messages at checkout based on what’s in the cart, the subtotal, and other conditions.
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WooThemes release a new free plugin for the Storefront theme: Storefront Sticky Add to Cart, which keeps pops up an add to cart button in a top bar if the customer scrolls past this section of your product page.
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WooThemes also released a big update for WooCommerce Bookings, which adds new stuff like multi-day bookings and buffer periods.
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The WooCommerce Braintree integration was updated this week as well to add PayPal support, refund / void / capture support, and some other new features.
Tutorials & Reviews
- Paid Memberships Pro has a great overview of plugins to create avatars for your membership site.
Marketing & Conversions
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I really liked this post from WooThemes on recognizing and creating customer rituals for your store.
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WooThemes also published another excellent post on creating holiday discounts for your store.
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A great compliment to the WooThemes post on customer rituals is ConversionXL’s post on creating high user engagement.
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Receiptful has tips on driving mobile conversions, as most traffic comes from mobile devices, but they have lower conversion rates than desktops.
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Looking for some last minute tweaks you can make before the holidays? Practical Ecommerce has you covered with tweaks for holiday conversions.
