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WooCommerce allows customers to leave reviews on products, but the method used for storing those reviews is still comments, so those product reviews are stored in the comments and commentmeta database tables. There is a recent plugin which fixes product reviews, by sending reminder emails using the Action Scheduler, storing product views in their custom database tables. The plugin is called Better Reviews for WooCommerce. Created custom database tables; wp_woocommerce_better_reviews_attributes wp_woocommerce_better_reviews_authormeta wp_woocommerce_better_reviews_charstcs wp_woocommerce_better_reviews_content wp_woocommerce_better_reviews_ratings When the plugin is installed, it Continue reading the post...

Varnish is a fast server-side web application accelerator. A number of Managed WordPress and other hosts already have Varnish installed and make it easy to enable on your child sites. In this example, we are going to show how easy it is using Cloudways for enabling Varnish on your child site (which is using WooCommerce), then for setting the correct rules for Varnish all through an easy-to-use UI. First, login to Cloudways and then select the server which your child Continue reading the post...

WooCommerce is used to power very high-level e-commerce stores which use WordPress. It currently has over 4+ million active installs. WooCommerce has an upcoming release planned for April 11th, 2019, version 3.6. The new version will include a number of performance changes, which will help when used on your child site for e-commerce. One of the changes you can test in the most recent first release candidate is for showing extension suggestions in various places in wp-admin. The suggestion extension recommends notification can be Continue reading the post...

With the breaking changes for WooCommerce if running versions earlier than 3.5.x due to WordPress 5.x release, now is the time to create a staging site. A staging site can be used to test the active theme updates, the WooCommerce-related plugins, and the WooCommerce plugin. Creating a staging site allows you to test plugin updates without having to cause issues on the live child site. In the case of child sites using WooCommerce for e-commerce, this can mean a live Continue reading the post...

WordPress powers over 32% of the internet and is one of the most used CMS out there. With WordPress being used as much as it is, who are the largest WordPress based companies and who are they owned by. WordPress Worth Current estimates place WordPress commercial ecosystem at generating $10 billion annually. The Titan in the Room If you’re going to talk about WordPress-based companies, then the titan is Automattic, which owns a number of companies like WordPress.com, Jetpack, WooCommerce, Continue reading the post...

What new projects would you want to try to use in WordPress? Common current examples of using WordPress for different site builds include brochure sites or e-commerce stores. You could also use WordPress for different sites types, using WordPress as a headless application, selling download licenses if you had a store which sold downloadable products. Both Easy Digital Downloads or WooCommerce could be used for selling download products (with a license needed). Other possible uses include using WordPress for powering Continue reading the post...

With the WordPress 5.0 release less than two weeks away from being shipped, the release is going to be pushed back to be later than November 27, 2018. You need to make sure that your child sites have been updated to deal with the new version of WordPress. The major changes being the new default Gutenberg block editor. WordPress 5.0 release data has been pushed back due to certain issues, with issues found in the beta, and release candidate being Continue reading the post...

WooCommerce powers over 30% of all online e-commerce stores, but when used on stores, it can cause performance issues if you are not aware of how to improve the load times and optimize the performance. A number of optimization changes to your child sites which are using WooCommerce can easily be made from your MainWP Dashboard site. Cart Fragments If you speed test a site using GTmetrix or WebPageTest, the slowest request you will notice in the store waterfall will Continue reading the post...