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2022.07.22

Use Automator to compress a WordPress plugin excluding hidden Mac files and folders

In categories: Mac, Tutorials, Website development, Wordpress

Use Automator to compress a WordPress plugin excluding hidden Mac files and folders

If you are a WordPress plugin developer like me, you know the value of saving time and being efficient. Automating routine processes like creating a WordPress plugin archive that does not hold any unnecessary files can save a lot of time. The issue If you have ever used default Mac compression feature from the context menu, the compressed archive that will be created will include additional Mac system files and …

2020.11.08

A case study: Recover abandoned carts using mobile Exit intent popup and increase sales

In categories: Website development, Woocommerce, Wordpress

A case study: Recover abandoned carts using mobile Exit intent popup and increase sales

Can you recall the excitement upon entering an e-commerce shop to order the latest gadget and the surprise when stopped by a full screen popup asking for your email? The feeling is quite like being stopped by a stranger in a tight alley to be asked for a cigarette – unpleasant and unexpected. This can catch you by surprise, break your focus and even make you forget where is it …

2020.04.09

21 Best Abandoned Cart Recovery Plugins in 2020 for WooCommerce

In categories: Website development, Woocommerce, Wordpress

21 Best Abandoned Cart Recovery Plugins in 2020 for WooCommerce

Year 2020 has clearly started off with a bang and shown businesses across the world the importance of ecommerce. Never has online shopping played a more significant role in the lives of regular people and businesses than now. Working to minimize cart abandonment and abandoned cart recovery must be one of the top priorities because of the huge potential revenue it holds. Continue reading to get a list of the …

2020.02.28

Top 17 best free website makers in 2020. Create your website or a free online shop

In categories: Website development, Wordpress

Top 17 best free website makers in 2020. Create your website or a free online shop

In case you are not sure if you should invest your money to set up your company’s website or maybe even start an online business from home, I would suggest you hit the ground running with a free online shop or a free website. In this post I would like to share my experience and know-how about free website builders, look at some of free website pros and cons and …

2020.01.22

How to save and recover abandoned carts in WooCommerce using ActiveCampaign

In categories: Tutorials, Website development, Woocommerce, Wordpress

How to save and recover abandoned carts in WooCommerce using ActiveCampaign

Since you are here, allow me to assume you run a WooCommerce shop and would like to save and recover abandoned carts. By default WooCommerce doesn’t show any shopping cart activity unless the cart is turned into an order. So it is a bit like running a store with ghost shopping carts – you know they are being used but you have no clue what’s inside them nor how to …

2019.11.30

How to edit structured data in WooCommerce without a plugin. Adding brand, review and aggregateRating.

In categories: Website development, Woocommerce, Wordpress

How to edit structured data in WooCommerce without a plugin. Adding brand, review and aggregateRating.

Just came back from a new project of mine. I signed it up for Google Search Console (ex Webmaster Tools) and today got an email that began with “Products issues detected on..” and they gave me a list of these structured data warnings I should take care of: No global identifier provided (e.g. gtin, mpn, isbn) Missing field ‘brand’ Missing field ‘review’ Missing field ‘aggregateRating’ A bit later I learned …

2018.11.12

Get WooCommerce customer reviews from all products, display average and all ratings in a histogram without a plugin

In categories: Tutorials, Website development, Woocommerce, Wordpress

Get WooCommerce customer reviews from all products, display average and all ratings in a histogram without a plugin

I have just completed developing a new customer review feature for Uniqcube light cubes. The idea was to display customer reviews from all products under each product since all products are basically the same product just with a unique design. I thought that developing this is going to be a walk in the park and I will be done in no time, but as it turned out, WooCommerce does not …

2018.06.29

How to send automated abandoned cart recovery emails from WooCommerce via MailChimp

In categories: Tutorials, Website development, Woocommerce, Wordpress

How to send automated abandoned cart recovery emails from WooCommerce via MailChimp

If you are running an online shop, then you must have already noticed that not all visitors that arrive become customers. Only a few decide to add something to their cart and an average of 75.6% decide to abandon their carts in the end. I would like to share a guide on how to save and recover these abandoned carts if you are using WooCommerce as your ecommerce solution. Send …

2018.05.17

Tutorial: Use merge fields to pass users address to MailChimp via API without empty result. Problem solved

In categories: Tutorials, Website development

Tutorial: Use merge fields to pass users address to MailChimp via API without empty result. Problem solved

Recently I embarked on a journey to integrate MailChimp API with abandoned carts plugin. At first I thought that it should be a peace of cake since I saw their huge documentation, but I was mistaken and had to spend my whole afternoon digging google to understand why I am getting empty address field after everything else is imported. Just to be clear – I really like the new Mailchimp …

2018.05.14

How to save WooCommerce abandoned carts for free

In categories: Tutorials, Website development, Woocommerce, Wordpress

How to save WooCommerce abandoned carts for free

Have you ever considered or noticed that there are people who are leaving your online shop after they have added items to your shopping cart? Imagine yourself left standing by the counter with a bunch of abandoned carts and not knowing who left them there. Now this is a quite bad situation to be left with but this is also a place of great opportunities. So how to deal with …

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