Building an online store with the Gutenberg Block Editor allows you to build a streamlined, functional shopping experience without dealing with tricky programming or bulky page builder plugins. Instead, a simple block plugin can help you customize your product pages and site styling. Here are three block plugins specially designed for WooCommerce stores. Why use Gutenberg to build your online store? Simplicity – Gutenberg is built into WordPress. This means you don’t have to learn how to use another page builder interface, and you don’t have to worry about compatibility issues with WordPress. Site Speed – Because you don’t need […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life in quarantine. In this week’s episode Doc will talk with Jason Cohen, the founder and CTO of WP Engine. In this episode we talk about decoupled architecture, headless WordPress, and full site editing in WordPress 5.8. Join us next Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for the next episode of the Torque Social Hour.

Thinking of trying headless WordPress for yourself? It’s definitely not for everyone. You have to do a lot of confusing setup while working with a technology that isn’t very well documented online. But the real difficult part may be finding hosting suited for headless WordPress. While you can host a headless instance on any server, a specially configured one will help you tackle common issues without needing to handle it all on your own. And thanks to headless WordPress’ growing popularity, there are quite a few hosting providers ready to accommodate you. Each of the eight hosts below are perfectly […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life in quarantine. In this week’s episode Doc will talk with Kathy Zant the director of marketing at Wordfence. In this episode we talk about the recent PHP hack, private Git repos, Wix’s bizarre new marketing campaign, and some Plugin Madness updates. Join us next Wednesday from 3-4pm PST for the next episode of the Torque Social Hour where our special guest will be Jason Cohen, the found and CTO of WP Engine.

Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv, […]

Having a customer initiate the checkout process only to abandon their cart is a frustrating, but all too common, experience for an eCommerce store owner. However, you may be able to reduce the frequency of this disappointing occurrence by adding PeachPay one-click checkout to your WooCommerce shop. In this post, we’ll cover what cart abandonment is and why you may be seeing it more often these days. Then, we’ll walk through how to set up one-click checkout with the PeachPay plugin. Let’s go! An Introduction to Cart Abandonment Cart abandonment occurs when an online shopper adds an item to their […]

Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv, […]

Most websites are spread across multiple pages. However, one-size doesn’t always fit all, and sometimes it can be beneficial to limit your content to a single page. One page websites take a less-is-more approach to web design, and now you can create them with ease using the Blank Canvas theme. Sticking with a streamlined, minimalist layout can enable you to establish your online presence, fast. In this article, we’ll explore why you might want to launch a one page website. We’ll then show you how to create the ultimate lightweight website using WordPress’ Blank Canvas theme. Let’s get started! An […]

We recently went in depth on how to customize the WordPress navigation. This time, in order to provide a more complete picture, we thought it only good and proper that we now deal with the other end of a website and learn how to customize the footer of a WordPress site. The footer is an often neglected part of a website. After all, lots of visitors will never actually scroll down that far. However, this kind of attitude could leave you behind. First of all, the footer usually appears on every page of a website (unless you are using a […]

Email marketing can be a powerful way to keep your customers engaged and drive conversions. However, building an eCommerce mailing list and then sending out regular content can seem daunting. Fortunately, there are WordPress plugins that can do much of the hard work for you. By creating a signup form, visitors will be able to join your mailing list and receive a warm, automated welcome at any time of the day or night. In this article, we’ll show you how to grow your eCommerce mailing list using the free MailPoet plugin. We’ll then cover how to make impersonal, one-size-fits-all email […]