WooCommerce is, of course, a WordPress plugin but, like almost any form of e-commerce, a WooCommerce site requires far more resources than a regular WordPress content site. We explain why that is, and how the subsequent poor performance and errors are far more damaging to an online store.
Styling, Lighting, and Camera Settings for eCommerce Photography
When shoot day arrives, there are a few steps you need to keep in mind when it comes to styling, lighting, and camera settings. Styling and backdrop Traditional product images are shot with a seamless white or neutral backdrop. This simplifies the editing process and gives the product a clean and focused appearance. If you aren’t […]
Getting Started with eCommerce Product Photography
Have you ever found yourself browsing an online store because a beautiful image showed up in your Twitter feed? Welcome to the power of eCommerce product photography! If you’re launching a WooCommerce store, photos are one of your most impactful sales tools. Good eCommerce photography attracts the right customers, tells a story, and lifts the […]
How Two Insect-loving Entrepreneurs Built a Business on Bugs
Neil Whippey and Shami Radia, the founders of Eat Grub, are on a mission to “change the way the West eats”. With their successful eCommerce business, this London-based duo is promoting insects as a sustainable and nutritious source of food – one delicious snack at a time. Hatching a Plan A few years ago, Shami […]
8 Bulletproof Ways to Increase Your WooCommerce Sales
Follow these eight bulletproof tips to increase your WooCommerce store sales and pound your pathetic, stunned competitors into the dust.
Empowering the Digital Future
PEI Media Group Ltd., a specialist financial information company, focuses on global alternative assets, private equity, private real estate, infrastructure, private debt and real assets. To provide resources and information within the alternative asset vertical, PEI offers several news services and magazines including Private Equity International, a global publication with a primary focus on the relationship… […]
WordPress As An E-Commerce Solution-Good or Bad Idea? [Free Ebook]
Due to its flexibility and customizability, WordPress can power a number of different types of sites: membership sites, corporate websites, blogs, and e-commerce. BuiltWith reported that in February 2018, a total of 2,241,106 websites use WooCommerce only; that’s 28,864 of the world’s top million websites. The opportunity for growth in the e-commerce and online retail industry is… […]
Creating A Parlor For Beauty and Luxury Online
AMR Hair is Australia’s favourite supplier of salon furniture, makeup, and hairdressing products. To appropriately showcase their high-quality products, they needed a strong and enjoyable online presence. Because AMR Hair’s ecommerce offerings are extremely dependent on the performance and reliability of their site, they needed a platform that maintained unquestionably good performance. WP Engine’s Digital Experience Platform has helped AMR… […]
Grab WPML at the Old Pricing with Unlimited Sites
For any website owner with global ambitions, being able to easily create multiple language versions of your site is essential. Remember, only 360 million people speak English natively, compared to over 400 million Spanish speakers and almost a billion Mandarin Chinese speakers. There are almost 7.5 billion people in the world, so, only 20% of […]
Fresh Bytes: Healthy Foods and Craft Drinks from Seven Online Stores
The search for healthy food is no piece of cake. It’s easy to get trapped, bouncing between grocery stores with tiny “Health Food” sections (what exactly is the rest of the store offering?) and stopping at multiple, specialized shops along the way, possibly never really finding what you want. Around the world, healthy food store […]