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This is Colm and Simon from CommerceGurus, with a handpicked weekly roundup of eCommerce articles.
WooCommerce 9.0 was released last week and it was a pretty big update with some important additions and changes.
Checkout Blocks — UI improvements for better conversion: The block version of the checkout went through an overall and includes a refreshed order summary with sticky functionality on desktop, clearer display of local pickup options, improved address form layout, and adjustments to checkout steps.
Despite these updates, if you need to make any changes to the core checkout (for example include an additional custom field) it is still recommended to stick with the classic shortcode version.
Experimenting toward a faster HPOS: Woo will be enabling an experimental version of full-text search indexes for order addresses and products, leveraging MySQL’s advanced indexing techniques to speed-up search operations.
This update also introduces a brand-new endpoint, wc/v3/refunds, designed to streamline the process of retrieving refund data.
Check out the full WooCommerce 9.0 Release Notes
Many users like to move through product reviews quickly, scanning and skimming for the information they seek across a set of reviews rather than focusing on a single review at a time.
Some use a similar approach with reviewer-submitted images, wanting to rapidly peruse all the uploaded visuals to inspect or confirm specific details or patterns.
Yet Baymard’s large-scale testing reveals that many sites constrain participants to navigating only the images within a single review, frustrating users with the extra work required to see these critical product visuals.
This is research we implemented in our own SaySpot reviews platform for WooCommerce.
See Why Customers Like to Navigate across all User Reviews
Ever wondered how many visitors actually click “Add to Cart” on your WooCommerce store?
This seemingly simple action holds valuable insights into your product appeal and conversion funnel.
By implementing an Add to Cart click counter, you gain a crucial piece of the puzzle, allowing you to calculate your conversion rate more accurately.
Rodolfo from Business Bloomer is back with another useful snippet you can implement on your own store.
The number of clicks and the rest of the data is only available to store owners, it is not presented on the frontend.
Learn How to Implement an Add to Cart Click Counter
WooCommerce enables you to bulk update your products, changing values like availability, stock quantities, price, and more.
You can also use a Woo extension or a WooCommerce bulk edit plugin to access more advanced bulk editing features.
In this post, Kathryn Marr discusses some scenarios where you may need to bulk update products in your online store.
She shows you how to do this using the native WooCommerce bulk editing feature or a third-party tool. Finally, she looks at the top plugins for bulk updating WooCommerce products.
Read about How to Bulk Update Products in WooCommerce
Ahmad Shadeed writes wonderful tutorials exploring CSS techniques and is back with another comprehensive post on the Gap property.
Not long ago, when managing spacing on the web, our first thought would often be to use margin.
However, Gap is much more flexible, especially when building components which are dynamic, with inner elements either present or removed, depending on the situation.
He also looks at how CSS Gap has been implemented in the Threads app which is a great real-world example.
Discover the CSS Gap Property
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