WooCommerce 8.7 has arrived!

Chris O'Brien March 27, 2024 0 Comments

WooCommerce 8.7 has arrived! This new version introduces a wide range of updates, including a rendering engine for printing order receipts, Product Collection block enhancements, an experimental additional fields API for checkout, and more. If you're an O'Brien Media customer with a WooCommerce site get in touch about an upgrade! Transform how you process high-risk payments Building a store in a...

WooCommerce 7.2.0 Released

Chris Grant (he/him) December 17, 2022 0 Comments

The popular e-commerce platform WooCommerce released version 7.2.0 this week with lots of new features and improvements for small businesses. Let's take a look at some of the most exciting changes in this latest release! New features in WooCommerce WooCommerce recently released a list of new features that has made shopping online even easier and more fun! With these new features, users are able...

An important security update for WPML has been released

Chris Grant (he/him) September 30, 2022 0 Comments

Recently, the development team of the WPML (WordPress Multilingual) plugin team was notified and revealed the top-level detail, of an issue that allows unauthorized access to some WPML internal features such as those used for configuration of translation jobs and changing plugin settings. It’s important to note that this vulnerability is only accessible to registered site users, not just any...

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The Best Apps to Create Great Ecommerce Customer Service (2022)

Dylan Fernandez July 04, 2022 0 Comments

If you're running an ecommerce business, providing great customer service is essential to your success. In fact, it can be the deciding factor between a customer returning or becoming a lifelong advocate for your brand. Luckily, there are a number of apps that can help you provide excellent CX and keep your customers happy. In this blog post, we'll discuss the best apps for CX and how they can...

Our Top 5 WooCommerce Payment Gateways for 2022!

Dylan Fernandez July 01, 2022 0 Comments

If you're like most ecommerce managers, you're always on the lookout for new and better payment gateways. After all, the success of your business depends on providing a smooth and user-friendly checkout experience for your customers. So which payment gateways are the best? We've done the research so you don't have to! Keep reading to find out our top picks for 2022. 1. Mollie Mollie is one of the...

Content Marketing for the Entire Digital Customer Journey

Dylan Fernandez May 06, 2022 0 Comments

Did you know that content marketing is a critical piece of the customer journey? It's true! In fact, customers rely on content throughout their entire journey, from the initial idea phase to post-purchase use of the product. That's why it's so important to make sure that your content is available at every digital touchpoint. We'll discuss this in more detail below. What makes content commerce so...

New requirement for WooCommerce 6.5: PHP 7.2+

Chris Grant (he/him) January 05, 2022 0 Comments

It’s been a while since WooCommerce bumped the minimum PHP version of WooCommerce to 7.0, and the WooCommerce team believes that now is about time for a new bump. Starting with version 6.5, scheduled for release in May 2022, WooCommerce will require PHP 7.2 or newer to work. Why this change? The PHP ecosystem is evolving rapidly. At the time of writing this, the only actively maintained...

Using WooCommerce? Beware of a critical vulnerability!

Camilo Pires July 28, 2021 0 Comments

WooCommerce has announced on its developer blog that there is a critical vulnerability in multiple versions of WooCommerce. This blog post will highlight what the vulnerability is and what this means for you going forward. What has happened and how does it affect you? There has been a security vulnerability found in WooCommerce and WooCommerce Blocks. The security vulnerability allows for data...

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WooCommerce: Combating Spam Order Bots

Chris Grant (he/him) January 14, 2021 0 Comments

In November of 2020, we shared an advisory for WooCommerce store owners encouraging them to update to the latest version of WooCommerce due to a vulnerability the WooCommerce team had recently addressed in the account creation flow. The WooCommerce core team discovered this vulnerability as a result of an attack from a bot that was creating spam orders and, by way of the aforementioned...

Time to upgrade! WooCommerce 4.8 is now available!

Chris Grant (he/him) December 09, 2020 0 Comments

The WoocCommerce team has announced the release of WooCommerce 4.8, which is now publicly available! It has been in development since November 2020 and Core contributions include about 257 commits from 29 contributors. This is a minor release, which means everything is backward compatible with the previous version. Given the release of PHP8, WordPress 5.6, and the Twenty Twenty-One theme, the...

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