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Ask SkyVerge: 20 WooCommerce How To’s

Hey everyone! We’ve been collecting some WooCommerce How To questions that are really easy to solve with a line or two of code or that we’ve written about already. If you haven’t checked out the news site that we sponsor yet – Sell with WP – you should check out the How To section. There are some handy WooCommerce How To’s there as well. You can also check out our free WooCommerce plugins, which sometimes solve these questions. First thing to not…

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Code

Developers: Turbocharge Heroku Deploy Hooks using Torpio

Heroku makes it easy to post a webhook when you deploy an app using the HTTP Deploy Hooks add-on but there’s no way to post the webhook to more than one URL. This is a problem if you want to notify a few different services of the deploy, like an exception tracker and NewRelic. Of course you could spin up a new app just to catch the webhook and resend it, but that’s a lot of nonsense for something that should be simple. The other alternative is to…

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SkyVerge Trademark

SkyVerge® is a trademark of SkyVerge, Inc. Please do not use “SkyVerge” in your domain name, logo, or other identifying features of your site or software products. You also may not state or insinuate that we approve, develop, build, or promote your products without our express permission. For example, if you use one of our blog tutorials, you should note that the code was inspired by SkyVerge or we’d appreciate a mention of thanks, but you cannot…

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Social Login

WooCommerce Social Login

New extension alert! We know that many of you have been waiting for this one, so we’re really pumped to release WooCommerce Social Login out into the wild 🙂 . Want to pick it up by 11am EST on August 13? Use the coupon code woocommerce-social-login for 25% off! Sounds Cool. What does this do? eCommerce has been growing rapidly and will continue to do so. As more users purchase from online stores, they’ve discovered something about their shopping …

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iphone welcome

WooCommerce iPhone App – Version 1.0.2 is out!

Hey Everyone! We’ve released a minor update for the WooCommerce iPhone app that adds support for custom order statuses. If you’ve added your own order status to your store (maybe you even used Justin’s tutorial to do this), the app previously didn’t know how to handle this information. We’ve now added the ability to read custom order statuses, such as “Shipped” or “Awaiting Fulfillment” (provided that they’ve been created correctly), and each of …

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8 Lessons Learned by building the WooCommerce iPhone App

One of our major goals for the first half of this year was to release the official WooCommerce iPhone app. While we released the app a bit behind schedule (in July), we were still really excited to get our first iOS app out the door and to create a mobile store management tool that we’d want to use ourselves. However, the process of building the app wasn’t entirely smooth sailing, so we figured we’d share some of the details behind development an…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce Chase Paymentech Updates!

We have good news for WooCommerce Chase Paymentech merchants! Our WooCommerce Chase Paymentech Orbital gateway has been updated to version 1.1 to add a “certification mode” for faster setup and certification via Chase. Orbital Certification When the extension was released, it was pre-certified by Chase with the understanding that merchants would not have to complete this process. However, Chase’s policies on certification changed shortly after th…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

New WooCommerce Social Login Providers

We’ve just finished with some highly-requested updates to WooCommerce Social Login that add some handy new features. Version 1.1 includes some cool new stuff! New Providers The first (and most requested) change since the WooCommerce Social Login launch is the addition of new providers. We’ve added support for LinkedIn, PayPal, and Instagram login for WooCommerce. We now support all of the following social logins with WooCommerce: WooCommerce Face…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

3 Cool New Things Added to the WooCommerce Customizer

Hey all! We love it when plugins help users do some cool stuff without code, and our WooCommerce Customizer is a popular example. WooCommerce contains tons of filters and actions to let you customize pieces of your shop, but most shop owners don’t know how to user them. Our WooCommerce Customizer opens up options for some of these filters so you can easily change things like the number of products per shop page or the text on your shop buttons. S…

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WooCommerce Authorize.net News

Hello Authorize.net users! We just have a quick announcement to share with you today :). If you use our WooCommerce Authorize.net AIM or WooCommerce Authorize.net CIM payment gateway extensions, you may have received a notice recently from Authorize.net. It probably looked something like this: On September 30, 2014, we will be retiring IP address 64.94.118.33, which we noticed you are connecting to directly either for monitoring purposes or for y…

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