Note that the “W” and the “C” are both capitalized (like the W and the P in WordPress) are.
WooCommerce is scalable, has unlimited customizations and some very well supported extensions you won’t find on other eCommerce CMS‘s such as subscriptions. It’s also free to get started and the hosting, support and other costs are entirely up to you – there’s no contract.
The platform was officially launched on September 27, 2011, and in a short space of time has grown to be the most widely used eCommerce platform on the web.
After a few years working with the plugin as “ordinary” developers, Silicon Dales became accredited WooWorkers in 2014, and, after WooCommerce was acquired by Automattic, joined the official WooExpert program as Silver experts, before moving up to Gold standard in 2016.
The tiered Gold, Silver, Bronze system was ended in late 2017, when Silicon Dales renewed accreditation into 2018 and beyond, continuing a good partnership and delivering excellence to WooCommerce store owners and managers.
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Probably our most popular content at Silicon Dales are our WooCommerce Tutorials and guides, which are aimed at aspiring and expert WooCommerce developers alike. Our aim is to share the knowledge and help people learn how to work with the best eCommerce software around.
Any content about WooCommerce published here, can be found in the list below, with the most recently updated items listed nearest the top. Expect this to update often, as Woo is our primary focus!
WooCommerce recently relaunched its partner program for accredited WooCommerce development agencies and Silicon Dales have been announced as Platinum Level WooExperts. What does this mean? Silicon Dales have been accredited WooExperts since 2015. This means we know how to help with almost any WooCommerce project or task. Whether it’s recommending a developer, tweaking a plugin …
The Institute of Photography booked Silicon Dales to update integrations between WooCommerce, Moodle and Mailchimp, including a Moodle re-theme and some custom code. What’s the Institute of Photography? The Institute of Photography (or IOP®) was founded by photography and online photography course experts to help people increase their skills from the comfort of their own …
Below are the minimum requirements for WooCommerce and (by extension) WordPress. Some are taken from WooCommerce, some from WordPress, and also, some, we are adding as recommendations. It should be apparent, below, which is which! Before getting started, if you’re here to assess a WooCommerce host, then you may be interested to check out our …
Below is a snippet of code, and a simple video explanation, which shows you how to edit the output of WooCommerce related products (shown at the bottom of the single product page) in order to not use product category and only use product tags as a mechanism for measuring “relatedness”. The Code Snippet NOTE – …
Vant Marketing booked Silicon Dales to create a custom WooCommerce barcode scanning plugin for a client, after previously working with Silicon Dales on another project. Who are Vant Marketing? From the middle of historic downtown New Braunfels, TX, our “flight crew” is ready to serve clients with experience, technology, and insight hard to find elsewhere, …
The Client “On The Strip is a local, independent travel booking site focused on increasing travel to and within Las Vegas. Unlike other booking sites, On The Strip is content-driven creating an informed customized experience for a curious traveler. Written by locals, On The Strip provides breaking news and freshly updated information about places to …
Stores using Magento on Commerce 1 (Enterprise Edition) or Open Source 1 (formerly known as Community Edition) will have their software supported by Magento until June 2020. For those store owners looking around before deciding on whether to upgrade to Magento 2, here’s an introduction to how WooCommerce provides a convincing alternative. Scheduling a change …
Over the past 12 months, the team at Silicon Dales has developed across a number of specialized B2B areas. Notably performing WooCommerce integrations with Ometria and Sage 200 (on-premises) as well as setting up full Purchase Order & invoicing systems for a number of enterprise B2B clients. Take a look at the new services: Ometria …
Looking at a WooCommerce client recently who has opted to display (albeit not prominently) out of stock products in their store, sometimes we were seeing those OOS (out of stock) products showing up in Related Products. Since there were 4 slots available, this would sometimes create an undesirable buying experience: why would anyone want to …
Kinsta is Silicon Dales’ favourite managed WordPress + WooCommerce hosts when it comes to the support, available features and admin panel. Though they’re traditionally a little more expensive than most other hosts, they nicely combine the things business owners need to know with a developer friendly approach (they allow SSH access and WP CLI, by …
