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Choosing an SSL Certificate for WooCommerce Shops

…g with any subdomains. As some store owners like to locate their store at shop.mysite.com instead of mysite.com/shop/, this can sometimes save money and be easier to manage. Our favorite place to purchase SSL certificates is DigiCert, though they’re more expensive than most options (starting at $139 / yr). They offer excellent support if you have questions or issues, and also offer free certificate re-issues in case you change DNS services (who ke…

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New year

Four Years of WooCommerce

…n to make it easier to add related products, as well as to make this more flexible for other product types and extensions. A new core payment gateway was added: Mijireh checkout gave store owners a core PCI compliant credit card gateway aside from PayPal standard. Finally after several versions of single-order status updates, the ability to bulk-update order statuses was added in v1.6 so that multiple orders could be updated at once. By version 1….

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce Authorize.Net CIM: Accept.js Support + Authorization Messages

…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 CIM 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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WooCommerce Chase Paymentech

…ration as long as the quarterly scans are conducted (this meets PCI level 1 standards). Payments are processed on your site via iframe with a template submitted to Chase so customers never have to leave your site to complete their order, which provides a seamless checkout experience and allows you to have control over the checkout process and gain customer trust….

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WooCommerce Intuit Payments

…erce screen, or to authorize and capture charges immediately. (Read more at WooCommerce to see all features.) Let customers add and manage saved payment methods from their accounts or checkout. Perform refunds, voids, or capture charges right from WooCommerce Show detailed decline messages at checkout Accept eChecks if enabled in your Intuit account Payments are processed on your site so customers never have to leave to complete their order, which…

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WooCommerce extension updates & releases

WooCommerce PDF Product Vouchers 3.0

…To address these issues and requests, along with making vouchers far more flexible for developers, we re-architected the plugin entirely in version 3.0, making it a lot more extensible and with the aim of making voucher management a lot easier. Keep an eye on your changelogs, you should see this within a day or two 🙂 General Improvements One of the pains in using the PDF generation library we previously used (fpdf) was that non-ASCII characters we…

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SkyTrip 2018 Recap

…arb in honor of the woman who works at Lake Tahoe Adventures and made our whole snowmobiling trip possible. Thank you, human Barb! Me… the person who refused to take the snowsuit off was me. Look at how awesome that thing is! (Ed. note: you look like a jazz cup.) Next year we’re thinking about offering two different activities, one more active and one more casual. That way, we’ll hopefully have something that appeals to everyone. Thursday You know…

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month in review

August in Review

…ter or unchanging SKUs, IDs are a good alternative to slugs. You can now select what should be used to generate the main product slug, as well as variation slugs (if desired) with version 2.0: Here are some samples of SKUs generated with the plugin: Jilt Abandoned Cart App We’ve been working on updates for quite some time, and Justin is very close to completing the re-write of the app (not to mention dusting off his Rails development skills), as w…

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How to Upgrade Magento

…y be incorrect, so if you see ./mage: Permission denied, simply make the file executable, and then continue along: $ chmod +x mage $ ./mage list-upgrades If you see ‘No upgrades available’, then everything upgraded successfully, and you can continue on to the next step. Otherwise, rerun the upgrade-all command again. With the upgrade from 1.6.0 to 1.6.1 I had to run upgrade-all twice from the command line when testing on development and staging, b…

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WooCommerce reviews + tutorials

How to Create a WooCommerce Widget

…ntinuing our series on building your first WooCommerce plugin with an article on how to create a WooCommerce widget for your store. Widgets and shortcodes are great tools to let users output some information on the frontend of their eCommerce site, and they’re fairly easy to build and include as part of your plugin. We’ve already written about creating a shortcode for your site, so today we’ll focus on building a basic widget, with a more advanced…

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