Christmas season is pretty tense for every store owner. Much like Santa’s workshop, you need to take care of all the nuts and bolts - working with suppliers, packaging, shipping, double checking customers addresses and inspecting your own warehouse stock... A ton of work for sure.
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WordCamp Basel 2025 re-cap: Looking for wiener schnitzels in a sea of noodles
WordCamp Europe 2025 in Basel showcased WordPress at its most mature and strategic. The event brought together 1,723 professionals from 84 countries for essential discussions on accessibility implementation, sustainable development practices, and enterprise-grade solutions. WCEU proved that WordPress now powers critical business operations across industries, supported by a community balancing innovation with practical implementation.
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Staging is like a twin brother to production - they should look and behave the same, with an exception or two. Let’s resolve the obvious scene. Staging technology stack should be as close as possible to your production environment. This specifically includes having the same Linux, PHP, MySQL version, all of the PHP libraries and network settings. In that manner, your newly deployed production commit will behave like you tested it in staging.
From the beginning, WordPress has been known as a 'blogging' platform, a tool that allows you to 'quickly' publish content on the web. The world-famous '5 minute install' slogan has only pushed the whole of WordPress among tools that supposedly have no place in larger organizations. The promoters of the platform themselves are unknowingly responsible for such a feature, wanting to distance themselves from a cold term such as CMS. But since the security of WordPress (described at the beginning of the series) is the most annoying rumor, WordPress as a blogging platform is the myth that is the furthest from the truth.
Ovaj vodič je pomoćni tekst vezan uz članak objavljen na Netokraciji - "Zašto su WordPress i ‘open source’ aplikacije odlično rješenje za državne online projekte"
Gloomy winter months are reserved for headlines that try to predict what will be the next hot thing in [please_insert_your_industry_here].
Apple Pay finally arrived on WooCommerce. This is a new and modern type of paying for products, reserved for Apple users (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac) Here’s a quick list of benefits and why you should care:
“Show me the money!” is a fairly good movie quote, summarizing thoughts for every business owner. It’s even more powerful in the eCommerce world where store owners need to tackle various foggy and uncertain concepts like User eXperience, sales funnels, big data analytics, A/B testing and even “what the hell is CMS”.
In their quarter of a century existence, HSM has discovered that being different is the key to success. Since 1990 they are specialized in the distribution of software and hardware solutions and their integration in the companies’ business environment. In 2016 HSM decided to go down eCommerce lane.Building a webshop for them was quite a challenge. We had to cleverly sort and present 4000+ products via 100+ search filters.
Offering shoppers a great online experience is paramount. A bad digital environment will harm your conversions, and may damage your brand. It’s important to understand and fulfil user expectations, but also be always thinking about how you can take things further and actually exceed expectations. Here are some of the key things that your digital customers will be expecting to see from you – see whether your brand can excel at all of these in 2017.
Bitcoin made a grand entrance into 2017. with market value highly over 1,000$ per BTC. Last time it’s value was so high, was late 2013.- when the People’s Bank of China approved BTC as a new way of payment. A lot has changed in 3 years. Bitcoin gained wider use on the global scene and all the major companies like Microsoft, WordPress or Steam have integrated BTC as a method of payment. Inevitably, most visible changes have occurred in the sector of e-commerce where the business owners had to adapt to the newly established trend.
Business intelligence (BI) tools went mainstream in 2016. Those modern helpers are now capable to visualize all of your eCommerce data and users are starting to take this for granted. If you look at it closely, this “is” a sure sign of BI belonging to the commodity area.
Seems like WooCommerce releases and new functions got into a higher gear – newly merged development team is reaping the benefits of its parent company – Automattic. Let’s see what’s in store for their new release 2.7 which is scheduled to be out of Beta in February 2017.