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Hi there, hope you're having a great Friday!
This is Colm and Simon from CommerceGurus, with a handpicked weekly roundup of eCommerce articles.
We're in Basel, Switzerland at the moment for WordCamp Europe 2025 today - it is always fantastic to meet the wider WordPress and WooCommerce community in person!
WooCommerce 9.9 introduces substantial performance enhancements to the admin interface, particularly benefiting high-volume stores.
Through the implementation of smarter caching, asynchronous data loading, and optimized database queries, critical admin page load times have been reduced by up to 95%.
Benchmarking on a store with over 1.2 million orders, 15,000 products, and 60,000 customers showed massive speed improvements, including order summaries, comment counts, custom fields, and analytics widgets.
The dashboard status widget now loads asynchronously, reducing homepage load times from minutes to seconds on uncached visits.
Note, as with any major release, it is always best to test on a separate staging first and wait a couple of weeks before deploying to a live store. Our updating WooCommerce guide covers this in detail.
Discover the Massive Admin Performance Gains in Woo 9.9
Rodolfo from Business Bloomer explains how to streamline the WooCommerce checkout process for free products by reducing unnecessary fields.
Typically, WooCommerce requires full billing and shipping details, even when no payment is needed.
Rodolfo provides a PHP snippet that detects when the cart total is zero and simplifies the checkout form to only require the customer's first name and email address.
This approach enhances user experience, reduces friction, and can increase conversion rates for free offerings like trials or lead magnets.
Learn How to Simplify a Free Checkout in WooCommerce
What if you could steal the AI prompt library of any elite marketer, or even Einstein?
In this episode of Marketing Against the Grain, Kieran dives into how leveraging AI and prompt engineering can help marketers automate, scale, and transform their work in minutes.
Learn more on building advanced prompt libraries for every marketing discipline, supercharging your teams with insights from legendary strategists, and using cutting-edge tools to unlock genius-level playbooks, no matter your level or background.
Learn how One Prompt will turn you into a Top 1% Marketer
OpenAI and Shopify are reportedly preparing to launch a native in-chat shopping experience within ChatGPT, signaling a significant shift toward conversational commerce.
Code discovered in ChatGPT's public assets suggests that users may soon be able to complete purchases directly within the chat interface, utilizing Shopify's checkout system.
This integration aims to transform ChatGPT into a full-funnel shopping assistant, streamlining the process from product discovery to purchase without redirecting users to external websites.
Read more about OpenAI and Shopify's Partnership
Cap is an open-source, cross-platform screen recording tool designed as a lightweight alternative to Loom.
It enables users to record, edit, and share high-quality videos effortlessly, with a focus on privacy and user control.
Key features include an intuitive interface for easy recording, high-definition video capture, and unlimited recording time.
It is compatible with macOS and Windows and is free. There is also a paid ($6/month) version which includes storage in the cloud.
This is an ideal tool to show a client work-in-progress or to record tutorial videos for them to reference.
Check out the Free Cap Screen Recorder
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