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Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Intelligent E-commerce: Harnessing AI and Chatbots in Your WooCommerce Store

WooCommerce, a dominant force in the e-commerce landscape, allows businesses to set up online stores quickly. However, in today’s digital age, more than merely having an online presence is required. Customer expectations are evolving, and the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and chatbots is rapidly changing how businesses interact with their clientele. So, how can WooCommerce store owners leverage these technologies? Enhancing Customer Service with Chatbots One of the primary ways WooCommerce stores benefit from AI is through chatbot integration. Chatbots, AI-powered virtual assistants, are designed to simulate human interaction and provide instant responses. Here’s why they’re a game-changer: 24/7

MainWP Roundup
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

August Roundup: Barn 2 Plugins, WordPress Remembers, and freelancers in WordPress

In the August Roundup we look at the WordPress Remembers project, a Barn 2 Plugins acquisition, Classic Commerce’s future, and if Freelancers need a seat at the table. Plus, we have a list of a few upcoming events. Ready to ride? WordPress Remembers Remembers Legacy is something I think a lot about. It seems these days people are interested in making as much money as they can and getting out. Where are the people want to make an impact? The new WordPress Memorial project honors those who have passed on and left a legacy. “WordPress dedicates this page to the

WooCommerce Vs. Prestashop
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

WooCommerce vs PrestaShop: Exploring the Best E-commerce Solutions for Your Business

WooCommerce and PrestaShop are two of the most popular e-commerce platforms. Both platforms offer a wide range of features and functionality, making them suitable for businesses of all sizes. However, some critical differences between the platforms may make one a better fit for your needs. WooCommerce is a free plugin that can be installed on any WordPress website. This makes it an accessible e-commerce platform for beginners, as WordPress is one of the world’s most popular content management systems (CMS). WooCommerce also has a large and active community of developers and users, which means a wide range of plugins and

2fa - WooCommerce Store
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Enable Two Factor Authentication in WooCommerce

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is an important security feature that adds an extra layer of protection to your WooCommerce store. With 2FA enabled, a user must provide two forms of identification to log in: their password and a unique verification code generated by an authentication app, sent via SMS, or provided by a hardware token. Securing the login for WooCommerce has become easy with the availability of multiple free plugins on the WordPress.org repository. Wordfence If you are using either the Wordfence plugin or the Wordfence Login Security plugin you can now take advantage of the WooCommerce two-factor authentication feature. To

How to Optimize the Cart Fragments Request in WooCommerce
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Optimize the Cart Fragments Request in WooCommerce

In WooCommerce, the “get refreshed fragments request” is used for updating the mini cart in the header of the site, and the request from WooCommerce can be slow. The request in WooCommerce will show as being; ?wc-ajax=get_refreshed_fragments Some caching plugins have built-in solutions for optimizing the “get refreshed fragments request” from WooCommerce, such as WP Rocket and Swift Performance. The WP Rocket plugin will optimize the AJAX get_refreshed_fragments request, improving your WooCommerce store’s performance. While the Swift Performance plugin has an advanced view option to cache the empty mini cart. If you run into issues using the WP Rocket plugin

Complete Guide to Migrate from Shopify to WooCommerce
Tips & Tricks
Enola Nguyen

An Ultimate Guide: How to Migrate from Shopify to WooCommerce

Are you wondering how to migrate from Shopify to WooCommerce? And consider which method would be the ideal solution for your migration? Shopify and WooCommerce are two of the most popular eCommerce platforms for starting online stores. While Shopify may be the simplest way to create an eCommerce website, WooCommerce is an option to consider once your online business has grown to a specific size. Many Shopify users desire to switch to WooCommerce to save money and get more control over their online stores. However, switching eCommerce platforms can be a complex undertaking that can take weeks or even months

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Improve Site Performance when using Stripe in WooCommerce

The WooCommerce Stripe Gateway is a widely used plugin for adding Stripe integration to your WooCommerce store. A recent release in version 5.7.0 of the Stripe plugin would cause a number of Stripe-related assets requests and external Stripe requests to load on single product pages and cart pages on your site. This would cause product pages and the cart page of the site to be much slower due to the extra requests being loaded from Stripe on them. The express checkout options can be controlled in the Stripe payment gateway from; WooCommerce > Settings > Payments > Stripe If you

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

What Data Does WooCommerce Usage Tracking Send

WooCommerce can send a bunch of site data out if usage tracking is enabled on your site. This might have been enabled when your first setup WooCommerce on your site when you used the setup wizard. An example of some of the site data that is being sent out when WooCommerce usage tracking is enabled; Site URL Admin email address Active payment gateways Active shipping methods Activated plugins in list form MySQL version PHP version PHP Settings, such as maximum post size, maximum input vars, if suhosin is enabled, if cURL, SOAP and fSock are enabled Template overrides Theme Total

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Hide the Setup Dashboard Widget in WooCommerce

WooCommerce recently added a setup dashboard widget which is loaded in the WooCommerce admin and would display in wp-admin. If you want to remove the extra dashboard widget bloat from displaying for clients then you can easily remove it using a code snippet. Even in the current version of the WooCommerce 5.7.1 the dashboard widget is added extra dashboard widgets in wp-admin. MainWP has a solid and easy-to-use extension for code snippets that you can save and execute code snippets to run on all connected child sites. This would be a good code snippet to have enabled on all child

Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Using MailerSend for transactional emails on your WooCommerce Site

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 on your site is to create an account. The free plan on MailerSend includes up to 12,000 emails a month

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