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Last weekend I had yet another spam attack on Business Bloomer (credit card testing – with hundreds of failed orders, fake registrations, 6 successful payments that I had to refund, email sending limits reached, and so on). This tends to happen on a Saturday night, so I’m obviously not in the office and can’t manually stop it. Today’s snippets try to prevent fake orders, and limit the amount of admin emails.
I haven’t done much regarding my WooCommerce Mini-Plugins this week as I was busy with client work, but I’ll try to catch up before the next newsletter issue. I hope to release 2 or 3 new ones soon.
Anyhow, here are this week’s WooCommerce tips – enjoy.
Rodolfo Melogli
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1. WooCommerce Tips & Snippets
WooCommerce: Checkout Anti-Spam Honeypot
Here’s my second attempt to fight against WooCommerce spam, without installing a captcha plugin. A few posts ago I covered the My Account user registration spam, so today I want to tackle the WooCommerce Checkout, and try to “trick” spam bots. ~ Rodolfo Melogli, Business Bloomer
WooCommerce: Disable “Password Changed” Administrator Emails
The “Password Changed” email is – actually – a WordPress core notification. It goes to admins when a WordPress user changes their password, and the email body says something along the lines of “Password changed for user: XYZ“. WooCommerce provides us developers with a handy filter, that we can use for this exact reason. ~ Rodolfo Melogli, Business Bloomer
4 Best WooCommerce Plugins To Retain Customers
You can stand out from the competition by focusing on customers’ pain points and increasing customer loyalty. If you’re using ecommerce on WordPress, you can benefit from several top-tier plugins to optimize the customer retention strategy. ~ Maddy Osman, Nexcess
2. ICYMI: WooCommerce Articles
WooCommerce: Add to Cart Form @ Shop Page
Today I’d like to experiment a little, and see what happens when we include the “add to cart template” (i.e. the one you see on the WooCommerce Single Product page) under each product on the WooCommerce Shop page. ~ Rodolfo Melogli, Business Bloomer
WooCommerce: Display “Related Product Categories” @ Single Product Page
In this experiment, we will first calculate the current product’s categories, and then use a WooCommerce shortcode to output them as a grid, right below the related products section. ~ Rodolfo Melogli, Business Bloomer
WooCommerce: Get Customer Second Last Order
There is a native, handy way to get a WooCommerce customer’s last order. This time, I want to write some custom code to get the second last order instead. We will indeed reuse most of the above function code and change it slightly. ~ Rodolfo Melogli, Business Bloomer
WooCommerce: Disable Payment Gateway By Product Type
Ever wondered if you could toggle payment gateways based on whether a given “product type” is in the WooCommerce Cart? For example, disable PayPal if there are simple subscription products, or enable Stripe only when there are variable products? ~ Rodolfo Melogli, Business Bloomer
WooCommerce: Anonymize All Users & Orders
Especially when you need to let other people (such as developers) log in to your WooCommerce website, you may want to protect the identity of your customers and your order details. ~ Rodolfo Melogli, Business Bloomer
WooCommerce: Get Product / Order Cross-Sells
Getting the list of cross-sells for a WooCommerce product is actually super easy (yes, it’s one line of PHP). But what if you need to “calculate” the list of cross-sells for an entire order, made of different products? ~ Rodolfo Melogli, Business Bloomer
WooCommerce: My Account Registration Anti-Spam Honeypot
Here’s my personal attempt to fight against the WooCommerce My Account Page registration spam, without installing yet another captcha plugin. I’m pretty sure this solution is not perfect, because spam bots are very “smart”, but it can help prevent most fake registrations. ~ Rodolfo Melogli, Business Bloomer
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