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How to Reduce Cart Abandonment Rates With One-Click Checkout (In 3 Easy Steps)

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Will Morris

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Community

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April 13, 2021

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Having a customer initiate the checkout process only to abandon their cart is a frustrating, but all too common, experience for an eCommerce store owner. However, you may be able to reduce the frequency of this disappointing occurrence by adding PeachPay one-click checkout to your WooCommerce shop. In this post, we’ll cover what cart abandonment is and why you may be seeing it more often these days. Then, we’ll walk through how to set up one-click checkout with the PeachPay plugin. Let’s go! An Introduction to Cart Abandonment Cart abandonment occurs when an online shopper adds an item to their […]

Press This Podcast: How WordPress Publishers are Dealing with the Existential Threat of Ad Blocking with Bill Erickson

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Emily Schiola

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Community

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April 12, 2021

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Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv, […]

How to Create a One Page WordPress Website

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Will Morris

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Development

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April 8, 2021

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Most websites are spread across multiple pages. However, one-size doesn’t always fit all, and sometimes it can be beneficial to limit your content to a single page. One page websites take a less-is-more approach to web design, and now you can create them with ease using the Blank Canvas theme. Sticking with a streamlined, minimalist layout can enable you to establish your online presence, fast. In this article, we’ll explore why you might want to launch a one page website. We’ll then show you how to create the ultimate lightweight website using WordPress’ Blank Canvas theme. Let’s get started! An […]

9 Ways to Customize the WordPress Footer (By Hand & Via Plugin)

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Nick Schäferhoff

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Design

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April 7, 2021

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We recently went in depth on how to customize the WordPress navigation. This time, in order to provide a more complete picture, we thought it only good and proper that we now deal with the other end of a website and learn how to customize the footer of a WordPress site. The footer is an often neglected part of a website. After all, lots of visitors will never actually scroll down that far. However, this kind of attitude could leave you behind. First of all, the footer usually appears on every page of a website (unless you are using a […]

How to Grow Your eCommerce Mailing List With MailPoet (In 5 Steps)

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Will Morris

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Plugins

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April 6, 2021

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Email marketing can be a powerful way to keep your customers engaged and drive conversions. However, building an eCommerce mailing list and then sending out regular content can seem daunting. Fortunately, there are WordPress plugins that can do much of the hard work for you. By creating a signup form, visitors will be able to join your mailing list and receive a warm, automated welcome at any time of the day or night. In this article, we’ll show you how to grow your eCommerce mailing list using the free MailPoet plugin. We’ll then cover how to make impersonal, one-size-fits-all email […]

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