Welcome to 2017! Lots of great stuff going on over the past couple weeks, let’s get geared up ??
New or Updated Plugins & Themes
- A Slack integration is now available for Easy Digital Downloads to help store owners keep their store tied to their daily work in Slack.
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Easy Digital Downloads also has a new version of Software Licensing coming as a beta was just released.
Tutorials & Reviews
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We published a guide this week on how to remove stock labels from product variations with WooCommerce.
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Here’s a tutorial from Becky Davis on turning your WooCommerce store into a catalog based on geolocation.
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PluginTut has a video review of using Jilt to save abandoned carts with Easy Digital Downloads and WooCommerce.
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Paid Memberships Pro has a guide to adding custom links to the Member Links section of the account.
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They’ve also written up a guide to adding a ‘haspaid’ shortcode to Paid Memberships Pro.
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You can add Discourse to your membership site with this guide from MemberUp.
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We’ve written up a review of January’s free plugin of the month: EDD Variable Pricing Descriptions.
Marketing & Conversions
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ConversionXL has an overview of making eCommerce product filtering more effective for browsing habits.
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MemberPress has some tips on using YouTube to drive more traffic to your membership site.
Other Tips & Articles
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You should be monitoring your inventory sell-through rates according to Practical Ecommerce.
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WooCommerce has published a 2016 in review with some interesting insights on where WooCommerce will go in 2017.
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Practical Ecommerce has some tips on packaging shipments to please your customers with practical packaging tips.
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Here’s a case study on running a membership site from Paid Memberships Pro.
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BobWP has a collection of WordPress eCommerce Reflections and Insights for 2017 from several WP professionals (myself excluded 😉 ):
Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy your weekend!