9. Midcentury style shop Karl Rowley, an award-winning graphic designer, built Midcentury style store around a mid-century modern aesthetic applied to home decor, mugs and accessories. On the advice of a mentor, he started one YouTube channel of DIY home projects to drive traffic, a project that spilled over 10,000 views on his first viral … Read more
The week before a sale, open 5 tabs: cache settings, PHP version, backup history, the activity log, and your plugin scanner. You click through each tab and check to see if there is anything that needs attention. Now on Pressable you can skip these steps and paste this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor: Run … Read more
Open source software is software that anyone can download, modify, and build upon. For a seller, this means your store can operate like your business, you can control your total cost of ownership, and you can adopt new trends or opportunities as needed without waiting for a platform’s roadmap. Business is moving fast. AI is … Read more
Unlike a blog, which can be loaded from a cached version, store pages such as your shopping cart, checkout, My Account page, or each logged in page are unique to each customer. This means they have to reload every time someone views the page. When your WooCommerce store’s speed isn’t performing, it’s likely due to … Read more
WooCommerce 11.2 is here with some exciting new updates. Here’s everything you need to know about the changes affecting the way you run your store. Do you have a quote from a supplier that only contains UPCs? You can import it as is. Of “Update existing products‘ is enabled, the importer compares each row by … Read more
After every Black Friday Cyber Monday, sales records make headlines. Adobe recorded $44.2 billion in U.S. online sales during the five-day Cyber Week period in 2025, up 7.7% year over year. But what doesn’t make headlines is how much you pay in fees to process all those transactions. Payments are the biggest and least researched … Read more
Black Friday is the time of year when the inbox goes from manageable to overwhelming overnight. Attention spans are shrinking, open rates are dropping, and your competitors are all doing the same thing: countdown timers, alarm clock emojis, urgent subject lines in all caps. The emails coming through are not louder. They are more specific … Read more
Affiliate commission and advertising spend Affiliate commission is determined by the seller and is one of the most variable costs on this list. Sellers typically determine the affiliate commission rate 10-20% for open collaborations, higher for targeted deals with proven creators – and that percentage is deducted from the amount users actually paid, excluding any … Read more
We’re just starting a big effort, and I want to post about it here because you’ll see it happening out in the open. Over the next three months, most of our product and engineering teams will focus solely on the WooCommerce core pluginthe software that is central to every Woo store. When we started this … Read more
Lacey’s previous company had a large following, and that experience taught her the importance of boundaries. She does not encourage arguments or controversy for involvement. Her priority is keeping the space respectful and useful to the people who visit it – women, gay people, people of color and disabled fans. Her rules are clear. No … Read more