Guides for WordPress & WooCommerce

WooCommerce

How to Set Up Stripe in WooCommerce: Cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay (2026)

A customer builds a takeaway order, adds extra cheese, chooses collection at 7:15, and reaches checkout. Payment should be the boring part. But a missing wallet button—or a successful charge that leaves the order pending—can turn dinner into a support ticket. Setting up Stripe in WooCommerce involves more than connecting an account. You need working […]

September 13, 2026

WooCommerce

How to Fix WooCommerce Not Sending Emails: SMTP Setup and Testing (2026)

A customer pays for dinner, sees the order confirmation screen, and never receives an email. Meanwhile, the restaurant’s admin inbox stays quiet. It looks like one WooCommerce problem, but the failure could be in several different places—and installing an SMTP plugin won’t fix all of them. The quickest route to a reliable fix is to […]

September 13, 2026

WooCommerce

How to Set Up WooCommerce Shipping Zones and Delivery Fees (2026)

A delivery fee looks simple until a customer three streets away gets charged twice as much as expected—or someone outside your delivery area manages to place an order. In WooCommerce, those problems often start with shipping zones, not the checkout page. For restaurants, “shipping” can mean your driver taking dinner across town. You don’t need […]

September 12, 2026

Tutorials

How to Create a WordPress Staging Site and Test Changes Safely (2026)

A routine plugin update shouldn’t turn Friday night’s ordering service into a troubleshooting session. Yet that’s exactly the risk when you test changes on the same WordPress website customers are using to browse your menu, book a table, or pay for dinner. A staging site gives you somewhere else to make mistakes. You can change […]

September 12, 2026

WooCommerce

How to Create WooCommerce Coupons: Discount Codes and Free Shipping (2026)

A coupon that looks harmless in the dashboard can become expensive at checkout. Ten percent off dinner is one thing; ten percent off dinner, stacked with another offer and free delivery outside your normal area, is quite another. WooCommerce gives you the essentials without an extra coupon plugin: percentage discounts, fixed discounts, restrictions, usage limits, […]

September 12, 2026

WooCommerce

How to Set Up GA4 WooCommerce Tracking: Sales, Checkout Funnels, and Campaigns (2026)

A busy Friday night can produce three different stories: WooCommerce shows orders, your advertising dashboard claims conversions, and Google Analytics reports something else entirely. Before increasing the marketing budget, you need to understand what each system actually measured. GA4 can connect visits, menu browsing, checkout activity, and purchases—but installing a tracking tag isn’t enough. This […]

September 12, 2026

WooCommerce

How to Create WooCommerce PDF Invoices and Packing Slips (2026)

A catering customer needs an invoice for their accounts department. Your delivery driver needs a slip showing three meals, a flat number, and “ring the side entrance.” Sending both people the same document is where an otherwise tidy ordering workflow starts getting messy. WooCommerce stores the order details, but turning those details into useful PDF […]

September 12, 2026

WooCommerce

How to Speed Up WooCommerce: Safe Caching and Faster Mobile Pages (2026)

A WooCommerce store can earn a respectable speed score and still stumble when someone adds a pizza to their cart. The homepage is cached, the menu looks sharp, and then checkout takes several seconds to respond. Worse, an aggressive caching rule can show yesterday’s availability—or another session’s cart. The goal isn’t simply a greener performance […]

September 11, 2026

WooCommerce

How to Set Up WooCommerce Abandoned Cart Recovery (2026)

A customer builds a €28 dinner order, reaches checkout, and disappears. Maybe the delivery fee surprised them. Maybe their payment failed. Or maybe someone in the room said, “Let’s cook instead.” An abandoned cart reminder can help with the first two situations. It probably won’t fix the third. Good WooCommerce abandoned cart recovery isn’t about […]

September 11, 2026

WooCommerce

How to Customize WooCommerce Checkout Fields: Add, Edit, and Remove Fields (2026)

A checkout field looks harmless until it stops someone ordering dinner. Make a phone number mandatory without explanation, hide an address field your payment gateway expects, or add delivery instructions that never reach the driver, and a small customization becomes an operational problem. The safest way to customize WooCommerce checkout fields in 2026 is to […]

September 11, 2026

Tutorials

How to Make WordPress Multilingual: Translate Your Site and WooCommerce (2026)

A translated homepage won’t help much if your customer reaches checkout and can’t understand the delivery instructions. That’s the real challenge with multilingual WordPress: translating the whole experience, not just the pages that look good in a demo. For a restaurant, that means menus, modifiers, collection times, payment messages, and order confirmations. For other WooCommerce […]

September 11, 2026

Tutorials

How to Add an AI Chatbot to WordPress and WooCommerce (2026)

A customer wants to know whether you deliver to their street. Another is searching for a vegetarian lunch. Someone else needs to change an order that’s already heading to the kitchen. An AI chatbot can help with the first two—but the third needs more than a convincing answer. That distinction matters when you add AI […]

September 11, 2026