UPS WooCommerce Shipping by PluginHive is a powerful extension that helps you automate UPS shipping by displaying real-time rates on the cart/checkout pages, pay for and print labels from within the admin area, and more. For our clients that ship with UPS, it’s a no-brainer that we always recommend. But recently we had a request to offer free ground shipping if the cart total is $50.00 or more. Although the[…]
Topic: Ecommerce
Is Stripe the Right Payment Gateway for my WooCommerce Store?
There are a lot of factors that come into play when picking the right payment gateway for your WooCommerce store. Within this article, we’re going to provide some quick info to help you decide if Stripe is the right fit for your store and some caveats when using Stripe (or other gateways) within your online store.
What is Elasticsearch & Why Should My Site Use It?
Think of Elasticsearch as a true search engine similar to Bing or Google however Elasticsearch is an open-source (Apache 2 license), distributed, RESTful search engine built on top of the Apache Lucene library.
Fixing Magento 2 missing theme and/or not being applied to website/store
At Linchpin we work on a lot of different projects that are in varying state of development. This presents challenges when switching between branches of a project’s .git repo that may not have your theme merge into it. Additionally, this issue can come up if you move your theme directory or rename the theme directory. If you ever come across this situation with your Magento 2 theme and the theme[…]
WordPress RI Meetup: E-Commerce Roundtable
We had a great turnout last night at the monthly WordPress RI Meetup! By keeping it casual, I led a roundtable discussion about e-commerce, covering everything from various popular platforms to how to best engage current and new customers for optimal sales.
addLinks to top.links in Magento
We’re always creating custom Magento implementations for our clients and that typically starts with a local.xml file.
Useful Magento Base Path References
Here are some helpful Magento references and snippets we regularly use.