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WooCommerce Customization:
Mistakes to Avoid
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1. No child theme
● Other methods, tools or plugins are
not ideal
● “One stop shop“ for placing your
customization
● Easy to backup / find / access
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2. Unreliable plugins
● Applies to paid plugins too
● Bad plugin > more conflicts
● Bad plugin > poor support
● Bad plugin > no updates
● Installs + reputation + last update
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3. WC-unfriendly theme
● /woocommerce folder no good
● woocommerce.php no good
● Not developed and maintained by
WC itself or WC experts
● Not optimized for conversions
● Not updated immediately after WC
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4. Using plugins before:
● Analyzing project specs
● Searching for snippets
● Researching the developer &
support forums
● Considering “Zero option”
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5. Customizing a live website
● Even if you are 100% confident
(happened to me...)
● Better: test on staging / clone /
development site with latest WP+WC
versions
● Take a backup before/after
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6. No backups
● Not only need backups, but also
“1-click restore”. And test them
● Good hosting > automatic daily
backup (no need of plugins)
● Files are not enough > DB!
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7. Cache enabled while coding
● Mostly when customizing CSS (PHP
usually fine)
● Could be a plugin or server-side
caching (ask your hosting)
● Test in incognito mode
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8. Poor hosting
● Investing less $ means paying
more $ when trouble happens
● 24/7 (helpful) support, staging, daily
backup & 1-click restore, SSL
● WordPress optimized
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9. No project management
● Even small jobs require a little
contract / agreement / T&C
● Who’s doing what e.g. product
upload, content writing
● $ deposit a must
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10. Hoping it’s update-proof
● No customization lasts forever
(plugins are constantly updated to
follow WC updates, and so should
your snippets)
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