WooCommerce-ers, don’t forget to check out the Great Community Survey for WooCommerce devs, merchants, and agencies! Brought to you by Prospress, and offering over 70 prizes for participating (takes 5 to 10 minutes).
New or Updated Plugins & Themes
- WooCommerce has announced version 2.7 beta, so developers should get testing! this release will feature a vastly improved product gallery, performance improvements for product visibility, stock, and featured-status queries, along with tons of changes for developers, such as REST API improvements and new CRUD methods. Now’s a great time to update plugins and themes to ensure they’re compatible with WooCommerce, as from this point out, they’ll start changing the data structure behind the scenes.
Tutorials & Reviews
- Paid Memberships Pro has a complete guide to customizing discounts for your PMPro site.
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Here’s an interesting bug for all WordPress developers: did you know that screen IDs are translatable? If you check a screen ID for your settings pages (such as enqueuing scripts or styles), be sure you’re aware that they can change on non-English sites.
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Paid Memberships Pro has a tutorial on showing member reports on the WordPress dashboard as well.
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You can add an announcement bar on your WooCommerce store with this guide from Patrick Rauland, which is helpful for announcing deadlines on holiday orders for Christmas.
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We published a guide to automating a WooCommerce Memberships site with AutomateWoo, a fabulous tool for WooCommerce stores.
Marketing & Conversions
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Power Reviews has a great overview of how negative reviews provide authenticity to your product reviews and customer feedback (and can even increase trust and conversions).
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I love all of these take-aways from WooCommerce on learning from Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales.
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Patrick Rauland reminds us not to complete with ourselves and to be aware of announcing new products too early (and potentially hurting your sales).
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We took a look this week at sending sale reminder emails with a case study from Moo.
