WooCommerce Store Credit With Shipping, Taxes & Expiry
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, a member raised a tricky use case involving store credit. They needed to assign fixed credit amounts (e.g. €1000) to registered customers via the admin...
View ArticleWooCommerce Admin Order Creation Has Tax Pitfalls
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, a member shared their frustrations with manually creating orders in WooCommerce from the backend — and the surprisingly different behavior compared to...
View ArticleWooCommerce Server CPU Spikes: WPML, Bots, Or Something Else?
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, a member raised concerns about persistent CPU spikes on a VPS running a WooCommerce site. Despite solid specs (16 cores, 32GB RAM), aggressive caching...
View ArticleWooCommerce Plugin Trademark Violations
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, a concerning situation was shared involving the unexpected and immediate closure of a plugin on the WordPress.org repository due to trademark violations...
View ArticleWooCommerce: How Developers Are Actually Using AI
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, members shared their personal experiences with using AI in WooCommerce development. Despite the increasing number of AI-powered tools, the consensus is...
View ArticleWooCommerce: Safely Sync Live Orders And Subs To A Dev Site
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, the discussion focused on a common challenge during WooCommerce rebuilds: how to sync a live store with a development version, especially when it comes...
View ArticleWooCommerce: Show Only Color Variations On Archive Pages
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, a WooCommerce store owner shared an issue many apparel sellers will recognize: how can I show each color variation of a variable product as an individual...
View ArticleSimplifying WooCommerce UX With a Custom Admin UI
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread we commented a discussion on X about simplifying the WooCommerce admin — especially for clients and merchants who find the default interface overwhelming....
View ArticleWooCommerce Release Videos To Understand What’s New
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, the discussion centered around how WooCommerce communicates its version updates — and how hard it can be to actually understand what changed. Reading...
View ArticleWooCommerce Setup Needs Clarity From the Start
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread — this time sparked by an X (formerly Twitter) discussion — the focus was on the very first moments of using WooCommerce. The original post asked a...
View ArticleWooCommerce Product Discovery in the Age of AI
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, the topic of AI-driven product discovery came up following a blog post by James Kemp that discussed how AI tools are beginning to influence the way...
View ArticleWooCommerce Analytics Options Without Google Analytics
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, a member asked for recommendations on WooCommerce analytics tools that aren’t Google Analytics. Their client needed something simple, privacy-focused,...
View ArticleWhen Ad Blockers Hide WooCommerce Product Images
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, we uncovered a fascinating quirk that could easily go unnoticed for months: product images in WooCommerce can be blocked by ad blockers if their...
View ArticleShould WooCommerce Work Without JavaScript?
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, an interesting—and admittedly niche—question came up: what happens to a WooCommerce website if JavaScript is disabled? While most developers rarely (if...
View ArticleWooCommerce Email Marketing: Respecting Unsubscribers
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, a debate surfaced around what store owners do with email subscribers who hit the “unsubscribe” button. The conversation explored legal obligations,...
View ArticleWooCommerce Guest Checkout for Existing Customers
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, we discussed a user-friendly idea for WooCommerce checkouts: what if logged-out customers—who already have an account—could skip the login step but still...
View ArticleWooCommerce Cart Discounts Without Coupons
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, a familiar WooCommerce frustration came up: why isn’t there a simple $cart->add_discount() function, like there is for $cart->add_fee()? Store...
View ArticleShould Clients Add WooCommerce Products Themselves?
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, we discussed the best approach when onboarding a client to a newly built WooCommerce store—especially when it comes to adding their products for the...
View ArticleAre Negative Fees Allowed at WooCommerce Checkout?
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, the topic of using negative fees at WooCommerce checkout sparked a deeper discussion around best practices, analytics accuracy, invoicing compliance, and...
View ArticleWooCommerce: Redirect Empty Paginated Category Pages (404)
In a recent Business Bloomer Club Slack thread, a WooCommerce developer faced a common but frustrating issue: their website was generating 404 errors for paginated product category URLs that no longer...
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