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How to Make WooCommerce Thumbnails Clickable

Leave a Comment / Blog, Development, Plugins, Simple Shop, WooCommerce, WordPress / By Matt Medeiros

WooCommerce is super-popular plugin for selling digital or physical products from your WordPress website. It’s used by tens-of-thousands of shops around the world. It’s quite an amazing plugin but lacks one simple interface function — clickable product images in the store view! Crazy right? Unfortunately, it’s going to take some developer chops to get this working as there isn’t a simple one-click action for this in the settings. Luckily for you in this post, we’ll show you how to make those WooCommerce thumbnails clickable.

How to create a WooCommerce website quickly and affordably

Leave a Comment / Blog, Design, Development, Plugins, Simple Shop, Web Marketing, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

WooCommerce is the most popular free solution for eCommerce on WordPress. WooCommerce was acquired by WordPress creators Automattic, so we can expect that much will be done to make WooCommerce the official solution for WordPress eCommerce. Thankfully, WooCommerce is also one of the most widely supported WordPress eCommerce plugins. It is the one we have recommended from the beginning and the one we support the most. Our pro themes are even developed with WooCommerce support in mind. Read the resource to find out how easy it was for a business to take a WordPress theme and WooCommerce and build an …

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How to set up shipping in WooCommerce

1 Comment / Blog, Development, Plugins, Simple Shop, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

One would assume that if you are reading this resource, you have already accepted WooCommerce as your WordPress eCommerce solution of choice or are strongly considering it. There are a few technical details that can be extremely daunting when using a free plugin like WooCommerce. These include: Accepting Payment Managing Stock Creating variants (small, medium, large) Creating products easily Shipping your products A lot of these options are more easily managed with solutions like Shopify, but that does not mean you shouldn’t have a difficult time managing your WooCommerce options. It is a cheaper options, and resources like this help …

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WooCommerce vs iThemes Exchange: the battle of free eCommerce plugins

Leave a Comment / Blog, Development, Plugins, Simple Shop, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

Everyone looks for the cheapest, easiest solution to a problem. Why wouldn’t you? When you are using a free platform like WordPress, having similarly “free” options in your plugins and themes is attractive, right? Not necessarily. This is a look at WooCommerce vs iThemes Exchange — two of the most popular free WordPress eCommerce plugins — and the true costs of selling on a WordPress platform.

Shopify vs WooCommerce

9 Comments / Basic Web, Blog, Development, Plugins, Simple Shop / By Dan Zarzycki

Problem: You want to sell things online A seemingly simple problem like this has never had a more complicated solution. On the one hand, you have a dedicated eCommerce platform like Shopify. On the other, you have the most popular solution (WooCommerce) on the most popular website platform (WordPress). It’s Shopify versus WooCommerce as we determine what eCommerce solution will be the right fit for your needs and your skill set.

Create Promotions on WordPress, using WooCommerce

1 Comment / Blog, Design, Plugins, Simple Shop, Web Marketing, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

If there is one thing that digital technology and statistics have told us, it is that people love a good sale. This is why we have created this post to help you Create Promotions on WordPress, using WooCommerce. You can be sure that WooCommerce like other software updates constantly so we have included some links for reference. 1) There is satisfaction in finding a sale and internal justification that it was right to buy. “I didn’t need a new television, but it was 50% off and better than my previous television” 2) There is the immediacy of purchase. A panic. …

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Create the best checkout page on your WordPress website

2 Comments / Blog, Design, Development, Simple Shop, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

People love to window shop. Think about the last time you walked into a technology store or car dealership. You probably picked up the latest iPhone, watched an action movie on a 90″ projection display, or ripped down the highway in a $75,000 coupe. If you have been checking your “Goal Conversion” statistics on Google Analytics, you might notice that your online customers are doing the same thing. People just like to put things in their shopping cart and then leave. Imagine now that as you were barreling down the interstate in that car, the world’s greatest salesperson was whispering …

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WooCommerce 2.3 – Users and Developers

2 Comments / Blog, Development, Plugins, Simple Shop, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

WooCommerce 2.3 aka “Handsome Hippo” has arrived on the market. This update primarily targets front-end editing experience with lots of changes made to the default way that elements appear. Additionally, simple steps in any product purchase experience have been streamlined for end users (ie. checking out). But wait! Before you update your website, check out what is new to see if this is right for you or your clients’ websites.

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Create physical or digital products with WooCommerce

Leave a Comment / Blog, Development, Plugins, Simple Shop, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

You were told to start using WordPress because it was simple. You were recommended WooCommerce as the solution of choice for eCommerce for its price, options, and integration with WordPress. While this is great, a fair bit of setup is still involved with creating a WordPress eCommerce website. Building the pages is one thing, but creating the products can be more difficult. There are a lot of things to consider. Hopefully, the following tutorial will provide insight into what type of product you need to create with WooCommerce and how to add those products to your site. See this post …

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17 WordPress eCommerce SEO tips for selling more products

5 Comments / Blog, Design, Development, Plugins, SEO, Simple Shop, Web Marketing, WordPress / By Dan Zarzycki

Get your front-of-house product on the front page of Google An eCommerce website not optimized for Google is like having a store without a sign, window, or door. The products are there, but there is no way for a prospect to find your content. Read on to learn eCommerce SEO tips for selling more products. The web is the place to sell your product. The web is the first place someone may look for a physical or digital product. This may be to find a local product offering or to purchase a product at a better price. All of your …

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