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Creating and Editing Products on WooCommerce

January 29, 2015 By John Leave a Comment

Want to boost your online conversion and sales? Adding more products to an already existing store, with an already existing user base, is the way to go!

You are not as limited by shelf space as a physical store, so make use of this and add more products. It makes sense that the more you have to offer the more you can sell, right? But should you be adding them yourself?

Our Solution for Convenience

If you have a lot of products in your WooCommerce store, it may be difficult to manage it on your own.Tweaking the look of your product page, as well as creating variable and grouped products can be a little too complicated.

Adding and managing products can take a lot of your precious time. For one, you have to familiarize yourself with how the product categories, tags and attributes work. Then, all product data should be input.

If you own the business, wouldn’t you rather have someone else do all this while you focus on growing your business?

Here’s the thing – you should spend more time working ‘on’ rather than ‘in’ your business. It means doing developmental activities to improve your business, rather than routine activities that you do every day to keep the business going. Why? Read more about this post here.

Instead of staring at your WordPress dashboard and clicking on Add New Product day in and day out,use the time in planning, marketing, and following up on leads. Or, spend the time with your family.

Our team can help you out with your WooCommerce store so you can prioritize on your tasks that really matter. Leverage your time by hiring people who can create, add, and edit products on your online store – fast.

Backup Your WooCommerce Store on WordPress

January 29, 2015 By John Leave a Comment

Your online store may be up and running, but it still requires consistent management. Your database grows as you add new products or post something on your blog. It would be a shame if you lose everything in an instant.

This can be avoided by backing up your data. It’s one of the best ways to protect your investment. This post explains the importance of being backed up.

Set Your Own Backup

Most site owners assume that their web host does all the backing up. While most web hosts do have backups, they are not as reliable as your own. What’s more, there’s always a chance that your host failed to do so.

Not setting up your own backup is an unacceptable mistake. You can either learn to backup your data on WooCommerce, or you could have others to do it for you. These simple steps can teach you how to backup the data on your site. It’s crucial to choose a reliable web host that provides better security, and has backup solutions in case something happens to your own database.

Doing this right from the moment you go live with your WooCommerce store assures you peace of mind. Having all your data backed up means you don’t need to worry as much about any security problems. Your original site and all-important data can always be recovered.

WordPress-Specific Options

You shouldn’t rely solely on the backups made by web host companies. It’s because the backups they make, are not specific to WordPress. You need to look for WordPress-specific options. Using remote backup services is one good example. These services use cloud servers and guarantees that your data would be safe and secure.

BlogVault provides real-time backup solution in WooCommerce. It guarantees immediate backup with each update done. For a more detailed description of BlogVault, you can check it here.

For more information on how to backup your data on WooCommerce, check our earlier post. Having a good backup process helps keep all your data safe. But if you have your hands full on other areas of your business, the Wooassist team can setup a solid process for your online store.

Email Opt-in Solutions for Your Woocommerce Store for Increased Sales

January 29, 2015 By John 2 Comments

Many online entrepreneurs tend to overlook the value of emails because of the rise of social media and other marketing strategies. In reality, it remains one of the best means of delivering promotional messages to potential customers.

Opt-In Email vs. Spam

An opt-in email is a type of promotional email that is specifically requested by the person who is to receive it. It’s the reverse of spam emails, which are sent regardless of whether they were requested or not.

Here is a better explanation of the difference between opt-in and spam. It also lists the advantages of opt-in emails, like showing consumers how you respect their privacy.

You can promote your products better by taking advantage of personalized opt-in emails. They may contain newsletters or information that consumers take interest in. It can also include special offers that promote specific products or services.

Opt-in Solutions to Increase Sales

Increasing your email opt-ins can actually get you more subscribers, as explained in this article. Aside from boosting your subscription, it can help you realize your conversion and sales goals.If you want an email opt-in form that converts, you have to combine timing, design, and incentive.

Pop-ups are really effective at getting people to sign-up.However,applying them on an ecommerce store is risky. The goal of most ecommerce stores is to sell. Any barrier to achieve that primary objective is counter-productive and costly. A good compromise is a pop-up on exit, using a plugin like PopupAlly.

Opt-in email continues to be the industry standard for good email marketing. It not only preserves your email marketing reputation, but also saves you time and money.Our Wooassist team can help you find the perfect email opt-in solutions for your business.

How to Change Checkout Form Heading in WooCommerce

February 26, 2015 By John 2 Comments

Here’s a neat trick if, for some reason, you want to change the checkout form heading in WooCommerce. By default, the heading is named “Billing Details” and you can change this to whatever you want in just a few steps.

First off, you’ll need to copy the template to your theme or more specifically, your child theme since you definitely should be using one.

The template can be found at:

\woocommerce\templates\checkout\form-billing.php

You should copy and paste it at:

\yourtheme\woocommerce\checkout\form-billing.php

Afterwards, just open the copy that you pasted into your theme and find the following lines of code:

<?php if ( WC()->cart->ship_to_billing_address_only() && WC()->cart->needs_shipping() ) : ?>

	<h3><?php _e( 'Billing & Shipping', 'woocommerce' ); ?></h3>

<?php else : ?>

	<h3><?php _e( 'Billing Details', 'woocommerce' ); ?></h3>

<?php endif; ?>

Once you find it, simply change “Billing Details” to the text that you want to replace it with.

How to Use a CDN to Speed Up Your Website

March 1, 2015 By John Leave a Comment

So far, we’ve talked about optimizing images, caching, and minification. This time around, we’ll talk about Content Delivery Networks or CDN. You will learn how to use a CDN to speed up your website.

What is a CDN and How Does it Help?

A CDN is basically a network of servers located at different locations around the world. As a service, a CDN will function to cache the content of your website so that it can be delivered faster to your visitors based on their location. Your static content will be saved on the servers so that when someone visits your site, it will send a request to the server nearest to them which will then deliver the content to the user. Basically, if you are a website owner and your server is based in Australia, your visitors from the US or Europe will have a hard time connecting to your website since the browsers will request data from servers that are too far away. This would result in delayed responses from the server known as lag.. With a CDN in place, browsers will always have a nearby server that they can connect to that will deliver your content much faster.

If that’s a bit too hard to swallow, here’s an infographic from GTmetrix with a visual representation of how CDNs work.

CDNs will mostly benefit the websites that cater to a global audience or market because if you are catering to a local audience, server requests will most likely be near your server’s location.

How to Use a CDN to Speed Up Your Website

Right now, you might be thinking that setting up a CDN is a complex endeavor. I’m telling you that it isn’t. We are in the age of web development where every service strives to be as user-friendly as possible. You can easily set up a CDN in a few clicks depending on your hosting service.

Setting Up CloudFlare CDN through CPanel

CloudFlare is one of the more popular CDN solutions out there and it has a free service for small website owners.

If your website is hosted on a CloudFlare hosting partner, then setting up CloudFlare is very easy. If you’re not sure if your hosting is a partner, check out this list. If your hosting is included in that list, then you can use the CloudFlare tool available on CPanel. Just go to CPanel and CloudFlare.

After that, just click on “Activate Free” for the free version or Activate PLUS for the paid version on the domain where you want to activate the CDN. You will then be prompted to enter your email to create an account with CloudFlare or just enter your email if you already have an account.

Once activated, you can tweak certain settings by clicking on Manage.

And that’s it. Your CloudFlare CDN is all set and the performance of your website should be improving soon.

Setting Up CloudFlare Manually

To set up CloudFlare manually, sign up for an account. After signing up, you will then be prompted to add your website to be scanned.

After the scan, you will be shown a list of all found DNS records. At this point, you should also set any subdomains that you would like to pass through CloudFlare. When you’re ready, just click on “I’ve added all missing records, continue”. The next page will let you choose a plan. You can choose the free version or the paid version, SSLs won’t work with the free version.

You will then need to change the name servers on your hosting service. You can do this by going to CPanel and clicking on Domain Manager. From there, just edit the name server to the new one provided by CloudFlare. If your hosting does not make use of CPanel, you can contact them on how to get this done.

As a final step, go back to CloudFlare settings and click on “I’ve updated my nameservers, continue”. Note that it may take up to 24 hours for the name servers to be completely active.

Setting Up Photon

Photon which is part of the Jetpack plugin is a sort of CDN although it’s not a complete CDN solution. Photon is mainly an image acceleration service which optimizes images on your site and caches them on the WordPress.com server to be served directly from there. Essentially, it only acts as a CDN for images and not all your static content like a normal CDN would.

If you are already using Jetpack, which hosts a number of other useful functionalities, then you can easily give Photon a go. However, if you are planning to install Jetpack just for Photon, you’ll be much better off going with a complete CDN solution like CloudFlare.

To activate Photon, just install Jetpack on your WordPress site and navigate to the Jetpack settings. From there, find Photon and click on Activate. Easy-peasy.

With a CDN in place, your website should be running a lot faster which will improve overall user experience and probably even boost your conversion rates.

Creating and Editing Products on WooCommerce

Our Solution for Convenience

Backup Your WooCommerce Store on WordPress

Set Your Own Backup

WordPress-Specific Options

Email Opt-in Solutions for Your Woocommerce Store for Increased Sales

Opt-In Email vs. Spam

Opt-in Solutions to Increase Sales

How to Change Checkout Form Heading in WooCommerce

How to Use a CDN to Speed Up Your Website

What is a CDN and How Does it Help?

How to Use a CDN to Speed Up Your Website

Setting Up CloudFlare CDN through CPanel

Setting Up CloudFlare Manually

Setting Up Photon

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