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Mega menu, mobile menu and pop-up cart: increasing storefront conversion
Online store navigation is not three separate tasks, but a single system. A mega menu reveals the catalog structure, a mobile bottom menu keeps key actions at your fingertips, and a pop-up shopping cart prevents the user from leaving the catalog page.
How to stop brute force and bots on WooCommerce without Wordfence
Wordfence is a WordPress security standard, but for a high-load WooCommerce store it creates more problems than it solves. I’ll tell you how to protect your store from brute force, bots and spam using built-in tools - without conflicts with caching and unnecessary costs.
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AJAX product filter: convenient catalog without page reload
Standard WooCommerce filtering reloads the page on every click and loses selected options. An AJAX filter with a pre-calculated index takes 50 ms, shows the color with a circle, the brand with a logo, and instead of pagination there is a “Show more” button.
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SEO audit of product cards: we find and fix problems automatically
A typical WooCommerce store loses 30-50% of organic traffic due to empty descriptions, duplicate titles, and missing alt texts. The built-in auditor checks each card against 15+ criteria and helps to fix problems en masse.
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ACF replacement: custom fields with Gutenberg blocks and repeaters
ACF Pro costs up to $249/year, and after purchasing WP Engine, the future of the plugin is in question. I’ll tell you how we built a complete replacement: 20+ field types, repeater, Flexible Content, Gutenberg blocks - with storage in optimized custom tables instead of the bloated wp_postmeta.
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WooCommerce store protection: WAF, 2FA, geo-blocking and monitoring
WooCommerce store stores payment data, customer personal data and administrative access. We analyze complex protection: WAF, two-factor authentication, geo-blocking, file integrity monitoring and activity log.
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Wholesale portal on WooCommerce: groups, hidden catalogs and multi-level prices
How to build a full-fledged wholesale B2B portal on WooCommerce without a bunch of four paid plugins: customer groups with inheritance, multi-level pricing, hidden catalog and quote request workflow.
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Comparison of products, wish lists and brand analogues: three features for increasing the average check
Three features that every marketplace has, but WooCommerce doesn't have out of the box: side-by-side product comparisons, wishlists with a sharing link, and automatic peer-to-peer pages by brand. Let's look at how they increase the average check.
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Five delivery services in one plugin: SDEK, KIT, Business Lines, Russian Post, Boxberry
Why pay for five separate delivery plugins when you can connect SDEK, KIT, Business Lines, Russian Post and Boxberry in one? We analyze the architecture, FIAS addresses, checkout matrix and shipment tracking.
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Drag-and-drop form builder: tickets and surveys without Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 + five addons for one form? I’ll tell you how we built a visual form designer with drag-and-drop, conditional logic and application storage directly into the WooCommerce plugin.
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Request for Quotation: Turning WooCommerce into a B2B Platform
70% of B2B transactions begin not with a “Buy” button, but with a request for a quote. Let's look at how to turn WooCommerce into a full-fledged B2B platform with RFQ workflow, dialog system, PDF auto-generation and integration with 1C.
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Why CommerceML is deprecated and how to replace it
CommerceML is a 2005 format that still remains the standard for 1C exchange and website. I analyze the real problems of XML uploading and show how the OData approach solves them: incremental updates, webhooks, auto-discover attributes.
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