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[…]
Introducing Courier Notices for WordPress
Proudly introducing Courier Notices For WordPress The easiest frontend notification system for WordPress. Our team at Linchpin has been utilizing Courier Notices for many of our own clients’ WordPress projects for years. This provided an easy way for our clients to self-manage how they communicate with their visitors beyond page content and homepage banners. Technically the Courier Notices plugin has been available on GitHub (and before that BitBucket) for years,[…]
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.
The Move to a 100% Distributed Team at Linchpin
Let’s get the big announcement out of the way – Linchpin has fully transitioned to 100% of our team working remotely. Our HQ in Pawtucket has been packed up and as I write this post from our empty office, it’s given me a chance to have a bit of reflection and nostalgia over our process for remote work past and present, the team in general, events, moving on and this[…]
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.
Announcing linchpin.tools – A Set of Useful Tools From Linchpin
We’re happy to announce the launch of a new site in the Linchpin network of websites, linchpin.tools. This site is a set of useful tools for IP lookup, domain WHOIS, and one-time use/expiring content/secret sharing. This is primarily a set of tools for our clients to quickly share information without having to do a Google search, but feel free to utilize or provide feedback. We have noticed that the WHOIS[…]