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Welcome back to WooWeekly—where ~20,000 WooCommerce builders come each week for actionable tips, sharp insights, and the occasional strong opinion.
I’m doing well this week, mostly trying to rest and recover after the in-person conference. It was intense, and now that it’s over I finally have a bit of space to think about what’s next—for me, for the business, and for this new project now that it’s been validated in the real world.
But Checkout Summit is not over yet… Checkout Summit {Reloaded} kicks off tomorrow (May 7)! 90+ Woo makers have already joined, and you should too. Here’s a 50% coupon discount for you so you can hear from 20 amazing speakers including J. Kemp, K. Keith, J. Kohlback, P. Rauland, and more: CW8AW4ZY (sign up at https://checkoutsummit.com/reloaded before tomorrow). Hope to “see” you there!
Anyhow, here comes your weekly round-up of WooCommerce tips and tricks. Enjoy!
Rodolfo Melogli
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Let’s Stop Stressing About WooCommerce Market Share
Everyone keeps asking the same thing… what’s WooCommerce market share right now?
And depending on where you look, you’ll get a different answer. One source says one thing, another says something else. It goes up, it goes down, sometimes it feels like it changes every week. And yes, it’s kind of interesting… I get it.
But here’s the thing: we’ve slowly turned that number into a scoreboard.
~Rodolfo
WooCommerce Insights
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.
YouTube Shopping is live for WooCommerce — here’s how to make the most of it
You can now tag products directly in your YouTube videos, Shorts, live streams, and channel page — and send viewers straight to your WooCommerce store. YouTube Shopping is live in Google for WooCommerce 3.6.0.
It’s been one of the most-requested integrations we’ve ever shipped: 15 feature requests, more than 180 votes, and a steady stream of messages from merchants running a growing YouTube channel on one side and a WooCommerce store on the other with no native way to connect them.
Learn more on WooCommerce blog ▶️
Master the Triggers and Logic Behind WooCommerce Email Automation
WooCommerce includes 11 built-in email notifications, covering order confirmations, shipping updates, password resets, and more! So your store’s essential communication is handled out of the box.
For more advanced email marketing features like abandoned cart recovery, welcome sequences, or post-purchase follow-ups, WooCommerce gives you the flexibility to integrate a plugin or external platform that fits your needs.
Learn more on Studio Wombat Blog ▶️
Bug Blitz: How Woo’s happiness team crushed 150+ backlogged bugs
Our team just submitted 150+ bug fixes to more than 20 products across our catalog, in a matter of weeks. It’s changing how we think about what’s possible in the future: let’s talk about it.
[..] Known bugs shouldn’t sit in a backlog when our people often already have an idea of what the fix could look like. We agreed we could do better, and pulled in Lance, the head of quality at Automattic. A week later, all Woo Happiness Engineers (what we call our support teams) were invited to try to fix bugs, at a fast pace. Lance called it a “bug blitz.”
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.
- May 7-8: Checkout Summit {Reloaded} conference with 20+ WooCommerce speakers, networking, learning and giveaways
Missed a class? No worries — you can catch up anytime with our growing archive of 25+ recorded sessions packed with WooCommerce insights.
WooCommerce Videos
| Checkout Summit {Reloaded} On May the 7th and May the 8th, I’m running Checkout Summit Reloaded, which is a live online edition where all the talks come back, but not as recordings. So each speaker will rerun their talk live, tailored specifically for an online audience. [YouTube/Business Bloomer] |
| 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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