Google representative John Mueller, when asked about optimizing e-commerce category pages, noted that if there is too much text on the page, then the algorithm may be confused whether it is an informational page or not. He suggests some text on the page may help. The caution is to not go overboard with blindly writing […]
Does Adding Text To E-Commerce Category Pages Help SEO?
Shared Hosting Won’t Cut It For Your E-commerce Site
I’m going to cut right to the chase. Shared hosting is inadequate for your e-commerce site. Period. End of story. As a site owner, I admire the fact that you’ve made it this far running on the hosting that you’ve had. But that hosting company you’re with? The one that’s less than $20 a month? […]
Change Proceed To PayPal Checkout Text in WooCommerce
A reader asked how to change the Proceed To Paypal button text on the WooCommerce Checkout page. I figured there would be a filter for this, because it’s WooCommerce. but because it’s a payment gateway, there’s no built in hook for this button, like there is for the Place Order button text. What I found […]
Calculating Shipping Costs In WooCommerce
Calculating shipping costs on products from your e-commerce store can be involve a bit of guesswork — if you’re not automating the process. There are reasons you might not want to do this, but if you do choose to calculate shipping based on the buyer address, there are tools for WooCommerce that will help you […]
WooCommerce 2.5: Add SKU On New Order Email
Update: This bug has been fixed in WooCommerce 2.5.1 for Admin New Order notifications only. If you are running WooCommerce 2.5, test the 2.5.1 upgrade on a staging server. Once you’ve determined everything is functioning normally, upgrade to WooCommerce 2.5.1 on your production (live) server. The WooCommerce update to version 2.5 was a major update, […]
What Is VAT Tax? How Does It Affect Your Online Store?
If you own a regional e-commerce store based in the United States, you may or may not be aware of something called VAT. VAT stands for Value Added Tax, and it’s most common use is in the European Union, though other countries have similar systems. VAT is similar to sales tax, except that while sales […]
Do You Need To Pay Sales Tax On E-commerce Stores?
Site owners with e-commerce stores face a unique challenge when it comes to sales tax. Here in the United States, each state has it’s own laws concerning what sales tax you pay on your online sales form your e-commerce store. To make it more confusing, depending what state you live in, you have to compute […]
Styling WooCommerce Review Stars
WooCommerce is the leading e-commerce solution on WordPress, and powers millions of online stores. However, customizing certain elements in WooCommerce isn’t always as obvious as one might presume. This tutorial looks at how to change one of those elements, the review stars.
Change Return To Shop Link In WooCommerce
WordPress currently powers over 43% of all websites. The most popular e-commerce plugin on WordPress is WooCommerce, by a wide margin. So it’s natural that you might to modify some of the user interface copy that comes with WooCommerce out of the box. Recently, a reader asked how would you change the Return To Shop […]
Change Currency Display in WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the leading e-commerce solution on the WordPress platform. More people use it than any other plugin or e-commerce suite in the WordPress ecosystem. Out of the box, it can do quite a bit, and there are tons of paid extensions that help you add more robust functionality. But out of the box, it […]