These posts feature news and tutorials for the WooCommerce plugin.
In this episode of the PublishPress Podcast, Rodolfo Melogli shares his journey from the early days of WooCommerce to the creation of his new Checkout Summit conference. This new WooCommerce conference will be in Sicily in April 2026. If you work with WooCommerce, you should be there. This is a conference we’ve been missing in…
WordPress sites can get really, really big. We regularly get questions from customers about sites with massive numbers of users. An example this week was a site with over 500,000 users. The _user_meta table had grown to almost a million rows. Once your userbase gets this big, even the simple things get complicated. Yes, large…
We received an interesting question this week from a PublishPress user. One of our customers wanted to remove elements from the “Screen Options” dropdown panel in WordPress. The “Screen Options” tab is available in most areas of the WordPress admin area. This image below shows an example from the “Pages” screen.
WordPress sites display an admin toolbar for all logged-in users. This is visible on the frontend of your site and also in the WordPress admin area. This toolbar contains shortcuts to key features in WordPress. A user in the Subscriber role will only see a few features. A user in the Administrator role may see…
Does it matter how many words you write on a topic? Some books are famously short. “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” barely reaches 60 pages, but it has inspired movies and TV shows for decades. Some books are famously long. “Moby Dick” is over 700 pages, but it has also been…
On a normal WordPress site, every author automatically gets their own page. So, if my username is “steve”, I’ll have my own URL which will look like /author/steve/. This contains all the Posts I’ve written on the site. A good example of this can be found on the popular WordPress.com blog. One of the main…
WordPress developers use the “custom post type” feature for many different features, including some that are a million miles away from traditional “posts”. For example, in WooCommerce, post types are used for Orders, Coupons, Products, and more.
If you have a lot of products on your WooCommerce site, it can be difficult to create consistent, high-quality product pages. With a lot of settings, its easy to forget something. To make sure that all your WooCommerce pages meet your standards, we recommend the PublishPress Checklists plugin.
If I had to pick a word to describe my experience with busy WooCommerce sites, it’s “overwhelming”. There are so many admin notices, plugin alerts, review requests, and other demands for your attention. In the product editor, there are a ton of sidebar, tabs, settings, metaboxes, and configuration options.
If you write a lot of WordPress posts, it’s easy to make mistakes. That’s why we built the PublishPress Checklists plugin. It automatically catches many of our errors before we publish. In this post, we’ll introduce a feature in PublishPress Checklists that checks for broken links in your content (both external links and internal links).