WooCommerce feels simple at first. A few products, a handful of orders, and everything behaves. The database looks tidy. Reports load instantly. It is easy to believe the structure underneath does not matter. To learn more, read our guide on WooCommerce & Ecommerce Development. Then the store grows. Ten thousand orders arrive, then fifty thousand. … Read more
WooCommerce is a dominant force in the e-commerce space with a total market share of almost 40%. Customers are attracted to this solution because of the low cost, extreme flexibility, and endless customization options. The one downside of running your own ecommerce store (vs selling on Esty, eBay or Amazon) is that you are fully … Read more
Google ReCAPTCHA used to be the golden standard for bot and spam protection for the web. Over the past couple of month we have noticed an increasing number of card attacks on WooCommerce websites that were using Google reCAPTCHA and paying for the reCAPTCHA for WooCommerce plugin. The hackers have found a way to bypass … Read more
Dominate the SERPs: The No-Nonsense Guide to WooCommerce SEO That Actually Drives Sales Launching a WooCommerce store is the easy part. Getting eyeballs on your products without burning your entire budget on ads? That’s where the real work begins. If you aren’t aggressively optimizing for search, you’re essentially opening a shop in a dead-end alley. … Read more
Some people might not realize that WordPress was created as a blogging platform and, if you pay close attention you can still see remnants of the original design – the special “Post” post-type and the comments enabled by default on every site. Today, not many of the websites are primarily blog oriented and very few … Read more
Stripe vs Braintree vs PayPal: Choosing the Right Payment Processor for Your WordPress Site At Watermelon, we’ve implemented a wide range of payment solutions for our WooCommerce clients. Our clients range from growing eCommerce startups to large enterprise platforms. Three names consistently come up in the conversation: Stripe, Braintree, and PayPal. Each of these payment … Read more
Considering creating a new WordPress website or hiring a website development team to create a personalized site for you? Whichever route you choose here are some things to consider: Purpose and Goals It’s important to clearly define the purpose of the website and establish specific goals. Whether it’s to sell products via e-commerce, provide information, … Read more
Did you know that as many as 10% of males are color blind? That means that, on average, five out of a hundred visitors are not able to distinguish the reds and greens in your website design. In addition to that, there are users who rely on keyboard navigation (using only tab, shift, arrow and … Read more
A lot of businesses think of their website purely as a marketing tool designed to attract customers and neglect another very important benefit – making your office staff happy. There are actually countless ways in which your WordPress site can help the efficiency of your back office. The most important is the ability to collect … Read more
We have been using WooCommerce Subscriptions on WordPress sites for quite some time. It has generally served our clients quite well and is relatively easy to implement, especially if you are already using WooCommerce. However, we have discovered some significant drawbacks to using the default PayPal payment option. You may want to reconsider using it when building a new WooCommerce Subscriptions site.