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Documents

• Accessibility Tips for WooCommerce Store Owners

  Overview While WooCommerce provides accessible foundations, store owners play a key role in creating an inclusive experience. This page offers tips and best practices for improving the accessibility of your store’s content, design, and customizations. In many parts of the world, ecommerce stores are legally required to meet accessibility standards. Making your store accessible not […]

• How to update WooCommerce

  Keeping WooCommerce, WordPress, extensions, themes, and payment gateways up to date helps your store stay secure, compatible, and functional. This guide walks you through how to back up your store, test updates safely, and apply them to your live site without causing issues. Back up your store A WordPress and WooCommerce store keeps data in […]

• Use FTP to manage your WooCommerce site

  FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a method to transfer files between a client and a server over the internet or a local network. In the context of managing a WordPress site, such as those running WooCommerce, FTP allows you to upload, download, or modify files directly on your web server.  This can be particularly useful […]

• Import and export a site database

  WordPress uses a database to store all the content and settings for your WooCommerce store in a structured format.  It organizes data into tables, each dedicated to different types of information such as products, customers, and orders. This organization allows for efficient data management, which can help you to easily store, retrieve, and update your […]

• Backing up WordPress content

  Every WooCommerce store has two places where its data and content are stored: the wp-content folder (themes, extensions, and uploaded media) and the database (products, orders, posts, and pages). Backing up both locations regularly protects your store from data loss due to server failures, failed updates, or security incidents. This guide covers automatic and manual […]

• Search your WooCommerce site database

  Searching the WordPress database on your WooCommerce site can help you quickly find and manage important information, like product details, order histories, and customer data. Where does your site database store WooCommerce information? In your WooCommerce database, specific tables organize and store key information. Here’s a quick look at where to find essential data: Some […]

• Configuring caching plugins

  Excluding pages from the cache Oftentimes if using caching plugins they’ll already exclude these pages. Otherwise make sure you exclude the following pages from the cache through your caching systems respective settings. These pages need to stay dynamic since they display information specific to the current customer and their cart Excluding WooCommerce session from the […]

• Disable plugins without admin access

  Normally, you can disable plugins — including WooCommerce — on your WordPress site from the Plugins > Installed Plugins section of your admin area. If you can’t access this part of your site’s admin area for any reason, there are other ways to disable plugins. Disable plugins with file manager or SFTP Changing the name […]

• Email authentication and sender requirements

  This document explains what email authentication is, its requirements, and how you can implement it to ensure your store’s emails are successfully delivered. In this digital age, where online transactions and communications are central to our lives, the integrity of email correspondence is more important than ever. Authenticating outbound emails from your WooCommerce store verifies to […]

• Hooks, actions and filters

  Hooks, actions and filters are powerful tools that allow you to modify and extend the capabilities of your WooCommerce site without altering the core code. This document will give you a brief overview of these and an example of how to apply them to your WooCommerce site. What are hooks? Hooks are a broad category […]