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Welcome back to WooWeekly! Every week, I curate tips and tutorials for you (and the other 19,846 subscribers!) to help you sharpen your WooCommerce skills.
Not much to report on the personal side this week, and that’s probably a good sign. Playing sports, watching a few matches, doing the daily school runs, cooking, and pretending to relax on the weekend is what’s keeping me sane right now. I’m consciously trying to spend less time in front of the laptop and flip the usual logic around: do life first, then fit work into the time that’s left. It leads to slightly weird working hours—sometimes weekends, sometimes rainy evenings, sometimes odd gaps—but it helps me stay focused and, most importantly, not sacrifice sleep.
On the business side, this is full sprint mode. Checkout Summit is now just three months away—85 days, to be precise—and I’m deep into outreach, follow-ups, calls, and budget work. It’s intense, but I keep reminding myself that if there’s a year two, a lot of this groundwork won’t need to happen again. The good news is that a third sponsor just came on board, and it’s a big one.
Meanwhile, Business Bloomer is moving steadily: the online community is responding, and yesterday I ran the first session of my first-ever cohort. One full hour actually spent working on our businesses together—and it felt right. I’d love to do more of this, because my long-term goal is still the same: make the Business Bloomer Club feel like a Chamber of… Ecommerce—where builders can meet, share, and grow together.
Anyhow, here’s your weekly round-up of WooCommerce tips and tricks. Enjoy!
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WooCommerce Tips & Snippets
Here is a collection of posts to answer your biggest WooCommerce questions. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced store owner, these resources will help you optimize your WooCommerce store and grow your online business.
WooCommerce: Distraction-Free WP Admin for Store Management
A recent tweet by James Kemp reminded me of one of those small but surprisingly annoying problems with WooCommerce: the cluttered WordPress admin sidebar. With a handful of plugins, the menu quickly becomes a messy maze, and even WooCommerce’s own orders, products, and settings end up scattered all over the place.
This article walks through a simple way to “take over” the admin for store managers. There’s a handy code snippet that adds a toggle in the admin bar, letting you switch to a WooCommerce-only menu—and it sticks as you navigate. It’s a tiny change, but it makes managing a busy store feel way less chaotic.
Learn more on Business Bloomer
Improve Your WooCommerce Checkout User Experience
The WooCommerce checkout page is supposed to be the “easy” part, yet it’s often where friction quietly kills conversions.
This post does a great job of focusing on small, practical improvements you can make to your WooCommerce checkout—without touching code.
If you’ve ever suspected your checkout could be doing more heavy lifting, this is a really solid place to start.
AI Ads, ChatGPT & the Future of Search
We saw that coming, didn’t we? ChatGPT just announced Ads.
This article breaks down what’s really happening and why the fundamentals of digital advertising haven’t disappeared. AI isn’t replacing the core principles we’ve relied on for years—it’s amplifying them.
Understanding intent, structuring campaigns clearly, and building landing pages that genuinely answer questions still matter more than ever. If you’ve been worried about keeping up with AI in marketing, this post offers a clear, practical perspective on what’s changing and what you can do to stay ahead.
How to Create a Restaurant Order Form in 2026
Restaurant online menus are all over the place. Customers clicking back and forth, struggling to pick options, or even abandoning their order altogether. There has to be a simpler way.
This guide shows how to create a clear, digital restaurant order form. It walks you through setting up a single, clean screen where customers can see your full menu, select variations, and place orders quickly.
If you’ve been wanting to make takeout or delivery easier for your diners, this is a solid place to start.
WooCommerce Live Masterclasses & Cohorts
Our private community of Woo professionals – the Business Bloomer Club – gives members lifetime access to (1) WooCommerce human support, (2) WooCommerce online courses and cohorts, (3) WooCommerce webinar recordings, and (4) member-only resources. Once or twice a month, however, we run free live masterclasses open to everyone.
- February schedule to be revealed soon. I have great news for Woo agencies and WooCommerce Marketplace vendors coming soon. Will try to schedule this tomorrow
Missed a class? No worries — you can catch up anytime with our growing archive of 25+ recorded sessions packed with WooCommerce insights.
WooCommerce Videos
| WooCommerce 10.4: How to Replace wc_enqueue_js() In this video, I walk you through the newly-announced deprecation of wc_enqueue_js() in WooCommerce 10.4. The good news: WooCommerce provided an alternative approach, so I tested the new method live using one of my snippets. [YouTube/Business Bloomer] |
| The Simplest WooCommerce Black Friday Topbar [Tutorial] In this tutorial, I show how to add a Black Friday topbar to a WooCommerce website in just a few minutes, without installing any plugins. This is done directly on a live site so you can follow the exact steps and understand how simple the process really is. [YouTube/Business Bloomer] |
| Bye Bye WooCommerce? My First Look at FluentCart FluentCart has just landed on the official WordPress plugin repository, and many are wondering — could this be a real WooCommerce alternative? [YouTube/Business Bloomer] |
| From Storefront to Shoptimizer: Full WooCommerce Theme Migration Walkthrough After years of running my WooCommerce site on Storefront, I finally decided it was time to step up. In this full 60-minute walkthrough, I take you behind the scenes of my complete WooCommerce theme migration — from Storefront to Shoptimizer. [YouTube/Business Bloomer] |
| I tried the Shopify WordPress plugin (so you don’t pay for a trial) In this video, I test Shopify’s new WordPress plugin so you don’t have to pay for the trial yourself. As someone with 13+ years of WooCommerce experience, I’m both excited and a bit nervous about this new competitor—but good competition always keeps things interesting! [YouTube/Business Bloomer] |
| How To Charge Shipping by Cart Weight in WooCommerce (Without Coding) Struggling to set up shipping in WooCommerce based on cart weight? WooCommerce doesn’t let you do it easily out of the box. [YouTube/Business Bloomer] |
| Ditching a WooCommerce Plugin (3 episodes) Tired of using bloated WooCommerce plugins when you only need a small part of their functionality? In this 3-part series, I walk you through the full process of replacing a WooCommerce plugin with clean, custom code — from planning to writing to testing. [YouTube/Business Bloomer] |
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WooCommerce Mini-Plugins
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