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This is Colm and Simon from CommerceGurus, with a handpicked weekly roundup of eCommerce articles.
Adding opt-in pages and popups to your site or store can be hugely beneficial for your business.
As the names suggest, they’re often used to get visitors to opt-in to some kind of offer or opportunity. The most common is to opt-in or subscribe to an email marketing list via a form.
More examples include membership and loyalty programs, complementary products or experiences, subscription services, discounts and promotions, and time-sensitive offers.
In this guide to creating high-converting opt-in pages and popups, we cover how you can add these elements to your site, what you can use them for, and how to ensure you get the most from them.
Learn How to Create High-Converting Opt-in Pages and Popups
Colm discovered a fantastic free WordPress plugin recently called Freesoul Deactivate Plugins.
FDP allows you to deactivate plugins on specific pages for speed optimization, debugging and problem-solving.
It works for every page, blog posts, custom posts that are publicly queryable, archives and backend pages.
With FDP you can disable the entire plugin where you don’t need them. It will not only clean up the assets of third-party plugins, their PHP code will not run either.
Hence, your pages will have fewer HTTP requests and fewer database queries.
It's got a nearly perfect 5-star rating, and the reviews are glowing.
Check out Freesoul Deactivate Plugins
jQuery might be the uncool kid in the front-end neighborhood, but its market share (used on over 78 million websites) dwarfs the hipper frameworks.
Among the chief reasons for jQuery’s relentless popularity is being instrumental to the ecosystem. Namely, it’s bundled in WordPress Core and is part of numerous themes and plugins (including WooCommerce).
jQuery 4.0.0 has been in the works for a long time, but it is now ready for a beta release. You can see the release notes here.
Learn About jQuery 4.0.0 on WP Tavern
Several privacy laws already require website owners to get consent from their users prior to placing non-essential cookies on their browsers, usually through cookie notices or banners.
There’s a new Privacy regulation in town (the Digital Markets Act), that has caught Google’s eye – causing the company to now require many of its users to set up compatibility with their new Consent Mode V2 platform.
Learn about Google's Consent Mode V2
I discovered a really insightful Twitter thread from Jamie Marsland comparing the UX of popular site building tools with WordPress via short video clips.
This is something we should be doing a lot more of in the WordPress community in my opinion.
Although none of these competitors are perfect, there is still plenty for WordPress to learn from.
See how other CMS' Manage Site Editing
Kirki have today (March 22nd) released a v5.1.0 update to their plugin which resolves the font weight issues experienced on Shoptimizer over the past week.
Updating alone won't resolve it, you'll also need to delete a transient. You can see full details in our updated article on the subject.
See How to Resolve Kirki Font Weight Issues
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