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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 …

2021.02.01

How to save email before checkout using “Add to cart” button in WooCommerce. Early email capture

In categories: Tutorials, Woocommerce, Wordpress

How to save email before checkout using "Add to cart" button in WooCommerce. Early email capture

It is no secret that e-commerce business is tough and with the Covid-19 pandemic that has changed our shopping habits, the online business competition has skyrocketed. And my personal opinion is that this is not going away anytime soon. If we can trust Wolfgang Digital published data – average conversion rate of online stores is 1.84%. The number varies according to industries, however from every 100 people that visit your …

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 …

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 …

2018.03.21

Get WooCommerce product variation price and sale price for your pricing table

In categories: Tutorials, Website development, Woocommerce, Wordpress

Get WooCommerce product variation price and sale price for your pricing table

So as usual I was peacefully working on a project of my own using WooCommerce as a base of my e-commerce solution. I had previous experience building standard shops consisting of multiple products with variable prices for each variation. But now I was creating a website with a single downloadable product that had multiple variations and each variation a custom price. Now on the main product page I had to …

2017.11.09

How to remove WordPress admin Profile page fields (Including Personal Options, Biographical Info, Website etc.) and titles without JS

In categories: Tutorials, Website development, Wordpress

How to remove WordPress admin Profile page fields (Including Personal Options, Biographical Info, Website etc.) and titles without JS

Recently had been working on this project of mine where I came upon a problem – how to remove WordPress admin Profile page fields and titles that will not be needed for users who will be using the new system. You do not want your users to be confused with information that they don’t have to input therefore it might be a good idea to remove them. And I mean …

2016.11.06

Meaningful transitions tutorial basing on material design motion choreography

In categories: Tutorials, Website development

Meaningful transitions tutorial basing on material design motion choreography

Some time ago I got inspired by Googles material design and meaningful transition concepts. Since CSS3 has allowed us to build beautiful transitions and seamless animations we must also be very careful in using them. It is our responsibility in front of our users and it can either help to better understand, read and grasp the information or do the opposite. If a client would enter your restaurant, you would …

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