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This is Colm and Simon from CommerceGurus, with a handpicked weekly roundup of eCommerce articles.
Along with a fast-loading theme and performance-focused web hosting, installing a WordPress performance plugin is one of the best ways to improve the speed of your site or store.
However, there are many WordPress caching and performance plugins to choose from. This means finding the best one for your site can be time-consuming. Also, if you get it wrong, you might even end up with worse performance.
FlyingPress is a plugin designed to help improve site speed with as little effort as possible while still providing enough customization options for power users with exacting requirements.
In this FlyingPress review, we help you decide if it’s the right plugin for your store. We cover the main features of this plugin, explain what it’s like to use, and share the results from our tests.
Read our FlyingPress Review
Rodolfo from Business Bloomer has put together a really nice visual hook guide for the block version of the cart page.
He has come up with a clever workaround to allow you to personalize the block version of the cart page via PHP snippets in a child theme.
This is particularly useful if you want to programmatically add new content areas to various parts of the cart page.
He has included useful examples which elaborate further on his technique to include a grid of new products on the cart page, as well as displaying a text string before the "Proceed to Checkout" button.
Discover Visual Hooks for the Block Version of the Cart Page
SweetCode has published a useful guide for beginners on how to set up Google Analytics 4 with WooCommerce.
By understanding how users interact with your website, you can make changes to improve your experience and increase your sales.
Use data trends to see the effect of changes and marketing campaigns or real-time data to see how users interact with your website.
The guide suggests using the Pixel Manager for WooCommerce plugin. There is a highly regarded free version as well as a Pro with even more features.
Learn How to Set up Google Analytics 4 with WooCommerce
There are a couple of interesting new features in the upcoming release of WooCommerce 9.2 (due August 13th).
Stock holding improvements: to increase conversions, stock will now only be held once a customer completes checkout with a successful payment, rather than when an item is added to cart. If payment fails, stock is freed up instantly.
New EAN field: This new input field will be added to the classic product editor. It has a behavior similar to a SKU, allowing any type of text, while asserting that the value is unique across all products.
This field is also essential if you want to configure Google Shopping so we have waited a long time for it.
Previously you would have add to install a separate plugin such as this one, but this is now finally coming to core.
Discover What's Coming in WooCommerce 9.2
I thought the animated packshots on this Dutch brand Upfront were very unique and not something I had seen before.
This pattern could be particularly beneficial for stores where a full 360 degree view of the product would be helpful.
Check out Upfront
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