First, congrats Easy Digital Downloads for hitting 4 years along with 1 million downloads! They’re celebrating with 10% off all extension purchases until tomorrow evening using the coupon code: 4YEARS
New or Updated Plugins & Themes
- WooThemes has released a WooCommerce Box Office extension ($129) this week that lets you sell tickets to events or webinars, which they used for WooConf this year (they even wrote up a case study on using it).
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WooCommerce First Data has been upgraded to version 4.0 to add new gateway features, along with a new gateway mode to use Payeezy.js.
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Easy Digital Downloads now has an Add to cart pop up extension ($19+) available that lets you pop up “view cart” and “checkout” buttons vs redirecting customers directly to checkout.
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Here’s one we forgot to mention last week: Prospress has released a couple mini-extensions for WooCommerce Subscriptions. Subscribe to all the things lets you add regular products to subscription / recurring orders, while Subscriptions Gifting lets customers send subscriptions to recipients (we reviewed it last week as well).
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AppPresser is in beta testing for a WooCommerce Smart Checkout plugin to improve the mobile checkout experience.
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WooCommerce 2.6 is getting close to beta testing, and it adds some cool new things like a tabbed account area and ajax cart updates.
Tutorials & Reviews
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Paid Memberships Pro has a really neat new tool to help you generate email templates with your company name and logo.
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Nicola Mustone has a tutorial on adding custom registration fields for WooCommerce Product Vendors.
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You can sell payment plans with WordPress using this tutorial from Cart66.
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BobWP has a video review of the WooCommerce memberships extension.
Marketing & Conversions
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Here are 4 email marketing tips to drive additional sales from Practical Ecommerce.
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LemonStand has some tactics to help you generate sales from Instagram that can be a great introduction to Instagram marketing.
Other Tips & Articles
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The Do the Woo podcast recently published interviews on building niche memberships sites (featuring yours truly!).
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WooThemes has a couple guides this week on selling coffee subscriptions and running successful membership sites.
