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Lessons Learned From Running a Viral Contest
In the beginning, there was robot. Well, since GoWP’s beginning in 2014, our robot has always been part of our identity. When we started GoWP, I wanted a “mascot” incorporated into the logo. I worked at a startup many years ago that had a dog (“Rover”) as a part of its company brand and I …
Brad Morrison
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Everything You Need to Know About WordPress’ Gutenberg Editor
WordPress is changing. The current TinyMCE text editor that millions of users are familiar with will soon be replaced with the new Gutenberg editor. This is one of the biggest changes to the WordPress experience since the platform launched, so it’s important that you prepare for it. Even though the Gutenberg editor is still in …
Will Morris
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A Look In The Mirror: How We Developed Our (Micro) Brand Strategy
When I was introduced to the concept of Micro-Branding, I didn’t know what to expect. Here’s why I’m so glad we embraced it, and why I think you should too. My friend Bruce likes to say that the one element that has to link and unify every decision in your company; scaling, communications, operations, hiring, …
Brad Morrison
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10 Helpful Tools to Boost Your Agency’s Productivity
With the right tools and processes in place, we save at least an hour of time, per staff member, every week. Here’s how… Last month, I was having a discussion with one of our long-term clients and I asked if they used Trello for managing their content creation process. His response surprised me, “I’ve just …
Brad Morrison
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Drop by and visit us at WordCamp Atlanta 2017!
The GoWP team will be at WordCamp Atlanta this Friday, Saturday and Sunday (March 17-19). If you’re planning to attend, drop by our sponsor table and get some GoWP swag. If you don’t have ticket yet, you can purchase one here: https://2017.atlanta.wordcamp.org/tickets/ As always, WCATL will have awesome speakers and plenty of fun. We hope …
Brad Morrison
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WordPress 4.3 bug causing high CPU load for some sites
Over the weekend we became aware of a bug (#33423) in the recently released 4.3 version of WordPress that can cause high CPU load for some sites. A fix for this bug will be included in the first maintenance release, 4.3.1. If you are a GoWP customer your site has already been patched to address this …
Lucas Karpiuk
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Apply the price of a WooCommerce product variation to all variations
If you have a WooCommerce product with a lot of variations that are all the same price, entering/updating the price can be a little frustrating as you must update the price manually for each variation. For a product with three colour and size attributes this is only nine total variations, but if you could update …
Lucas Karpiuk
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WooCommerce Wholesale Prices and Product Bundles conflict
A few weeks back one of our customers began using the WooCommerce Product Bundles plugin and reported an issue to us where the cart total was double what it should be. After some investigation we found there to be a conflict with the WooCommerce Wholesale Prices plugin. In this article we’ll outline the details of the …
Lucas Karpiuk
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Issue in WooCommerce v2.3.6 prevents checkout using Internet Explorer
Today we received a report from a customer that her WooCommerce checkout was malfunctioning, preventing her own customers from completing the checkout process. After some investigation we were able to determine that the issue is specific to the latest version of WooCommerce (2.3.6) and only affects visitors using Internet Explorer (versions 10 and 11 in our …
Lucas Karpiuk
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