WordPress plugins vs themes

Why Use Plugins Instead of Theme Changes?

…owever, WooCommerce builds a lot of shortcodes into their themes (for example, shortcodes to create a two-column layout). For many people, they think this is an awesome addition to the theme, since it changes the way content is displayed. However, I actually dislike using built-in shortcodes, as I end up with a lot of [[twocol_one]] shortcodes displayed in the middle of a page if I change to a theme from someone other than WooCommerce, and use a p…

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Memberships

…nly access to your products, or offer exclusive discounts and other perks. Online learning Sell membership access to courses, training, and other educational content. Associations & communities Invite members into your group with an online hub for registration, info, and communication. Publishers Provide access to premium content accessible only to members. Learn more about types of memberships sites What our customers say A happy shout out to the…

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Code

Developers: Turbocharge Heroku Deploy Hooks using Torpio

…few things. First, you can enter multiple URLs that accept Heroku’s deploy hook without any changes. The format is a simple application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST with few parameters. The most important are app, user, and head. You can see the rest in the HTTP deploy hook docs. Because Torpio passes in the webhook body without modification, we can simple repost this to the URLs that we need. Most developer-related services will accept Heroku’s web…

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Team

Add Plugin Settings to WooCommerce, Part 2

…e { // the magic will go here } endif; return new WC_Settings_MyPlugin(); Whoohoo, a tab is here! It doesn’t have a title or anything at all yet, but we’ve got settings. I’ll include a full class file at the end of this tutorial, but I will wrap it in a function to load it at the filter woocommerce_get_settings_pages so you can see it in action if you install it as a plugin. Construct the Settings tab Now we have to build our settings tab within t…

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Memberships – use cases

…ss to your products, or offer members exclusive discounts and other perks. Online learning Sell access to courses, training, and other educational content. And with the Teams for WooCommerce Memberships extension, sell to groups and corporate customers as well. Associations & communities Invite group members to an online hub for registration, info, and communication. Works for paid or free members—and, with the Jilt integration, send the right ema…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce Memberships is here!

…s or other services, and integrated with your entire site, including your shop. This led us to WooCommerce with Groups + Groups for WooCommerce and Subscriptions. We’d worked with a client on a very large membership site (about 15,000 members) that also sold products to make this setup work, but we envisioned it being better and easier to set up than it was at that time (about a year and a half ago). Groups isn’t necessarily made for all membershi…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce Authorize.Net AIM Adds Accept.js Support

…security burden on your site and increases security for your customers while leaving your checkout process unchanged. Accept.js Support To enable Accept.js support for your site, you’ll need to configure 2 additional settings in the Authorize.Net AIM plugin. You can enable Accept.js, and enter a client key, which is generated in your Authorize.Net account. Any merchant can generate this key without the need for additional services or fees and beg…

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Social Login

WooCommerce Social Login

…using a secure social sign-in method, and customers can easily float from site to site without using several sets of login credentials. Want some research on how popular and useful social login is? We have lots of it on the WooCommerce Social Login product page. Got it. Any other benefits? Yes! Almost every customer has come across social sign-in, and they’re far more likely to create an account with social login than check out as a guest. That m…

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WooCommerce Product Reviews Pro

…evel product reviews for WooCommerce Product reviews are one of your top sales methods – customers expect peer reviews and the social proof reviews generate can be the deciding factor in customer purchasing decisions. Over 80% of customers expect to use product reviews when buying online: 85.57% of the participants stated that they read reviews often or very often before they purchase online. Of the participants who read reviews, 83.65% compare po…

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WooConf 2014 Recap

WooConf 2014 Recap

…p in person. We’re already planning on attending the next WooConf and looking forward to it. To those of you that we met up with, it was a pleasure (from the whole team!). Thanks again to WooCommerce and all conference sponsors for a wonderful event!…

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