We craft eCommerce products to help you sell online. Creators of the Shoptimizer WooCommerce theme. Obsessed with #webperf and conversion optimization.
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Joined July 2014
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WooCommerce Themes in 2026: Woo Goes Purple, CommerceGurus Talks Performance xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1DGleVmXa…
Ahead of our @DotheWoo discussion on WooCommerce themes, performance and what merchants actually need, here are a few findings from the first report in our recent CommerceGurus community survey.
A few results really stood out.
Despite those challenges, sentiment towards WooCommerce remains very positive.
60% expect to use Woo more over the next year, 37% about the same, and just 3% less.
You can check out the full report here:
reports.commercegurus.com/20…
Performance was the standout WooCommerce challenge, mentioned by 77% of respondents.
Plugin bloat came next at 58%, followed by checkout conversion and abandoned carts at 44%.
60% of our community expect to use WooCommerce more next year. Only 3% expect to use it less.
Our first survey report looks at performance, plugins, page builders and what store owners want product makers to improve.
We'd love you to check it out!
reports.commercegurus.com/20…
We’ve just published a hands-on review of the Search & Filter Pro plugin from @rossmorsali
It was tested on a Shoptimizer store with 1,000 products, we looked at faceted filtering, search, perf, and accessibility.
For any Woo stores with larger catalogs it'd be a great fit.
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Today is launch day! 🚀Feels a little weird launching a new plugin when so much of X seems negative about software dev, but I set a goal and I'm seeing it through. 280 people are getting it free through their All Access bundle. The rest gets it super cheap! studiowombat.com/plugin/prod…
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Forcing myself to switch WooCommerce themes on my live site, in production, really helped me get things done faster, after 8 months of procrastination.
In a matter of hours I fixed almost all design glitches, reworded the two most important pages (homepage + Business Bloomer Club), enabled subscriptions (!), came up with pricing, optimized the header/footer/sidebar, and cleaned up my custom PHP.
Now I feel confident enough (it's never gonna be perfect) and can tackle the next phase: conversion rate optimization.
For this, CommerceKit, which comes by default with the Shoptimizer theme, is perfect. Out of the box I can enable Order Bumps, Ajax Search, Countdowns, Waitlists, Wishlists, Cart and Checkout widgets, and more. On top of that, I need to capture email addresses and will restore my free videos and newsletter sign up banners.
After that I will be working on performance optimization, especially now that CommerceGurus Turbo has launched commercegurus.com/product/co… - great timing!
And just like that, I'm done: businessbloomer.com/
Who knew that the only way I could get this theme switch done was by blocking a couple of hours and doing it live... I procrastinated for months 🤣
Now I can go and adjust the little details everywhere, but the site seems to be working.
I'll wait for some feedback from you all and then finally get back to work, as I need to rewrite the whole website before I launch my next big things 🔥
Issue #345 of our CommerceGurus newsletter is now live! Featuring @Bovelett , @PoeHaH , @kinsta and @NeetoRecord 🚀
commercegurus.com/newsletter…
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We launched something new recently which we've wanted to build for years. We make Shoptimizer, a WooCommerce theme built around speed. But the same things kept coming up: a fast theme only gets you so far. Bloated CSS/JS, big images, third-party scripts all drag perf scores down.
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It's amazing to see early users of our CommerceGurus Turbo performance plugin enjoying what we've built.
If you have a WooCommerce store and are struggling with perf I'd love to get you set up - just reply or send a DM.
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We've just launched CommerceGurus Turbo - a performance plugin built specifically for WooCommerce.
Includes page caching, critical CSS, Cloudflare integration + lots more.
If you're into WooCommerce perf, I'd love you to give it a go - DM me and I'll sort out a license
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As part of my earlier "how much does a Woo site cost" article, I analyzed 5,000 Woo stores to find out which plugins they use. It's so predictable it's boring, to be honest. 😁 Of course they use Yoast for SEO and WordFence for security. I wrote it all down for you anyway, and added some thoughts in between (because you don't need WordFence). studiowombat.com/blog/plugin…
