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Improving your site’s checkout to improve the experience for customers can be a complex ordeal. One of the newest options to improve your WooCommerce store’s checkout experience is using Perfect Checkout. Perfect Checkout uses headless technology to replace the store’s standard checkout page that uses WooCommerce with an improved version. You can test out a demo of the Perfect Checkout experience. Perfect Checkout includes a number of features including; Completely responsive (pixel perfect on all browsers/devices) Automatically save user details Continue reading the post...

In this month’s toolbox, we are going to talk robots. More specifically, AI tools that will make your workflow faster. Do you freeze when you see another automation tool? I am reminded of the old 80s song by the Australian band Icehouse: I just freeze Everytime you see through me And it’s all over you Electric blue You don’t have to freeze! Let’s chat about it. Visual Regression Testing I asked a question recently in the MainWP Users Facebook group Continue reading the post...

If you have a WooCommerce store then it is key to make sure you have working site emails and the best way at making sure that happens is using a transactional email provider. MailerSend is a service that just released a plugin for WooCommerce which has a number of solid features. After you have installed and activated the plugin it will add a new sub-menu item in wp-admin; WooCommerce > MailerSend The next step to get going to use MailerSend Continue reading the post...

What was your first job? Mine was at the local Safeway grocery store. My brother had a job there and I got one too. I worked there my Senior year in high school and one summer during college. Later, I worked in a bookstore. I would often refer to our bookstore as a retail store disguised as a bookstore. In reality, that bookstore was retail. I also worked in vending. I serviced machines, served food on a food bar, and Continue reading the post...

WordPress version 5.8 was released on the 20th of July which made a change for the block editor to be used as the default editor when working with widgets. The block editor on widgets can be much slower to load and will load more requests in wp-admin so it can make it a much slower experience. When using the block editor on widgets it can be as many as 231 requests and take 2.5 seconds to load. Using the classic Continue reading the post...

WooCommerce recently found a critical security issue that was reported that affects all versions of WooCommerce from branches 3.3 to 5.5. You may have already noticed an email with the subject line Action required: Critical vulnerability in WooCommerce that went out around 7pm EST. The most current version of WooCommerce is 5.5.1 but patched versions for branches 3.3 up to version 5.5 have also been released. WordPress.org has the ability to push out automatic plugin updates for security reasons so Continue reading the post...

As someone who has had many health struggles, I am definitely in favor of looking after my own self-care. In fact, I have written articles about self-care at MainWP. I believe we should be self-aware. For that reason, I appreciate the role that the Big Orange Heart plays in this process. Further, I think that the WordFest Live conference is a worthy event due to the support of self-care and Big Orange Heart. Starting July 23, 2021, the second round Continue reading the post...

I have a confession to make. I get entirely too many email newsletters. I can’t read them all. You wanna know what’s hard? Most of them are excellent emails. They are easy to read, done well. It’s just hard to keep up. One thing I need to keep up with on the regular is WordPress news. I am making a concerted effort to streamline the best resources I know about. How about you? There are several WordPress email newsletters available Continue reading the post...

Taking over an existing site for a client which is infected with malware can be a complex mess to deal with and to get the site clean and free of malware. Luckily there are a number of security and malware scanning plugins that will help with being able to clean up the site. The iThemes Security Pro plugin includes a number of security features and includes a site scanner that will scan WordPress core and plugins for files that should Continue reading the post...

Having your site send reliable site email can be a mess to deal with. There is now a new service with a plugin called WP Mail Pro. The pricing for WP Mail Pro is very reasonable the free plan includes up to 1,000 emails a month, the lite plan includes 10,000 emails a month, the basic plan is up to 50,000 emails a month and if you need to be able to send even more emails from your site then Continue reading the post...