…Starbucks Coffee Not Included The only thing I wished we’d thought of: our super-partners for WooCommerce AvaTax, Avalara, had a hand-steamer for their backdrop so it looked pristine — this is something we’ll grab for next time. Now we were ready to go! Day 1 In addition to a general sponsorship, we wanted to be sure we also sponsored one of the most important parts of the conference: morning coffee. We co-sponsored a barista for the morning with…
WooCommerce Authorize.CIM 2.0 is here (finally)! We’re super excited to announce that we’ve released a large update to our WooCommerce Authorize.net CIM payment gateway 🙂 While development took far longer than we would’ve liked (initial estimate was 50 hours, the final tally was over 200 hours), we’re really pleased with the final product and we can’t wait for you to update and try it out! This update has undergone many hours of testing and is fu…
…tter prioritize them. Make Content Public WooCommerce Memberships makes it super easy to restrict an entire content type at once with a single restriction rule: Restrict all posts However, there was no way to “un-restrict” content if you wanted to have some posts as teasers. You can now make some content public by disabling any and all restrictions that apply to it. When editing your content, you can enable “Disable restrictions” to make this cont…
…want to, I can even patch this with a bit of CSS in my child theme’s stylesheet to adjust the column width. .woocommerce ul.products li.product, .woocommerce-page ul.products li.product { width:30%; } And I get a nice, adjusted shop page layout. Columns adjusted Real Example #2: Using a Variable Now what happens if our filter also has a variable (or two, or three, etc) in addition to the value we can change? These variables will give us informatio…
…face (so to speak). What are the benefits to using Simple Pay? Aside from super easy payment processing, Amazon provides a straight-forward pricing structure for all of their payment gateways (maybe you’re familiar with this if you’ve seen or used our WooCommerce Amazon FPS Payment Gateway). You’ll only pay for the transactions that you process — no monthly fees or contracts. With transaction fees of 2.9% + $0.30, Amazon Simple Pay is very compet…
…any subdomains. As some store owners like to locate their store at shop.mysite.com instead of mysite.com/shop/, this can sometimes save money and be easier to manage. Our favorite place to purchase SSL certificates is DigiCert, though they’re more expensive than most options (starting at $139 / yr). They offer excellent support if you have questions or issues, and also offer free certificate re-issues in case you change DNS services (who keeps th…
…thout issue 🙂 Without Accept.js, payment data is posted directly from your site, through your servers, to the payment processor. This puts a security burden on your site, as to achieve PCI compliance, you must ensure your server environment is compliant since payment data is passed through it (or deal with non-compliance fees each month from your merchant account). With Accept.js, this process changes at the point of checkout. Payment data is toke…
…offer “perks” instead of content), and memberships that tie into both your site and physical goods (like subscription boxes). WooCommerce can support all of these types of sites, and we wanted to make it great at supporting them. While WooCommerce Memberships does put a heavy focus on restricting content, it also tightly integrates with your products and shop. This lets you create a purchasing club like an “online Costco”, a membership community t…
…is your IP. I think this method is overkill, and I prefer not to deny the site entirely to important visitors, like GoogleBot. Also, the .htaccess file will most likely be replaced by the upgrade process anyways, rendering this method somewhat suspect. Another option is to put the site into what I call a selective 503 mode, which I will add to this article at a later point Another ideal way to perform the entire upgrade would be to replicate the…
…using a secure social sign-in method, and customers can easily float from site to site without using several sets of login credentials. Want some research on how popular and useful social login is? We have lots of it on the WooCommerce Social Login product page. Got it. Any other benefits? Yes! Almost every customer has come across social sign-in, and they’re far more likely to create an account with social login than check out as a guest. That m…