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How I Built a WordPress Block Theme Using Google Stitch, Claude Code, and WordPress Studio
A walkthrough of the AI-assisted pipeline I used to build a new WordPress block theme — Google Stitch for design, Claude Code with a community Agent Skill for the initial build, and WordPress Studio’s MCP connection to validate and fix block errors.
Why Your WooCommerce Store Is Not Selling
Many new WooCommerce store owners spend months adding features before making a single sale. This post explains why that happens and what to actually focus on before you launch.
What Is the WordPress 7.0 Connectors API and Why Does It Matter?
WordPress 7.0 is due to land on 20th May 2026, and alongside the usual collection of editor improvements and performance work, it includes something that is mostly aimed at developers but will quietly affect anyone running AI-related plugins on their site — the Connectors API. If you have ever installed an AI plugin and then…
From Order to Ordeal: Learning About Amazon UK’s Customer Service Failings
Recently, I attempted to purchase a 65″ Hisense TV from Amazon UK. Unfortunately, the TV never arrived, and my experience with Amazon’s support services as a UK consumer left much to be desired. Working in support each day and having been a support team lead, it can be a real eye-opener and a great learning…
WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Recovery How To Install AutomateWoo
WooCommerce abandoned cart recovery is a marketing strategy that helps you recover lost sales by targeting customers who leave items in their cart without completing the checkout process.
WooCommerce Now Powers 42% Of All Online Stores According To BuiltWith Data
Back in August of this year I posted a tweet indicating that WooCommerce was powering a 39% share of all online stores according to data gathered by the service BuiltWith.
Setup A WooCommerce Development VVV With Vagrant Provision
In this tutorial you will learn how to install my WooCommerce Development VVV on your Vagrant Server and have it provision that site and its, content, plugins and themes automatically. Once provisioned you will have a fully running WooCommerce Development VVV with content, themes and plugins installed ready for your development tasks. Firstly if you…
Setup a WordPress VVV Vagrant install on macOS
In this tutorial I will go through how to setup a Vagrant install of WordPress on macOS along with highlighting some tools that will make running and managing a vagrant install a little easier than having to dive into terminal all the time after first installation. Once you have VVV up and running it offers…
WooCommerce Invoice Payment Gateway
The WooCommerce invoice payment gateway plugin adds an Invoice Payment Gateway to your WooCommerce store. This type of payment method is usually used in B2B transactions with account / invoice customers where taking instant digital payment is not an option. An order status of either On Hold, Processing or Completed can be chosen from the…
WooCommerce Open External Product Links In A New Tab
The functionality to open WooCommerce external product / affiliate links in a new tab is not something that is currently possible from within the core WooCommerce plugin. This functionality is useful if you’re an affiliate marketer for example that requires the external product buy now button links to open in a new tab when clicked.…