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Premmerce WooCommerce Brands plugin makes it possible to create an unlimited number of brands that can be assigned to the products for better cataloging, product search and additional opportunities for marketing and brand promotion. The brands in this plugin are created as a separate taxonomy, which allows you  to use all the benefits of WordPress with taxonomies and all the features for SEO from YoastSEO.

In this article, we will continue to explore the load speed of the WooCommerce-based online stores and look for the ways to maximize the load speed by cache plugins. We have briefly reviewed all of the most popular plugins for WordPress and selected three plugins that have shown the best results in our research.

Our products and services is being used by a variety of different online stores with different types and numbers of the products. Quite often, we meet clients who need to launch a store with 50-100K of products and provide up to 2 seconds load speed for all pages at a low cost of hosting. So in this post we will research how many products can WooCommerce handle. We wondered if a WooCommerce online store could withstand such large catalogs with a sufficient user load and conducted our own research, which we are happy to share with you.

This plugin is created to facilitate the development, testing and debugging of the code on the WordPress and WooCommerce platform. Premmerce Dev Tools provide such tools as: WordPress debug, WordPress plugin boilerplate generator, WooCommerce product generator and WordPress data cleaner. We have developed this plugin while we were testing the capabilities of WordPress for the developers. As we develop and maintain a large number of plugins and features, we will constantly improve our tools for the developers, release their new versions and will be happy to share them with you.

When we’ve decided to change the development environment from CodeIgniter and Symfony to WordPress, first of all, we reviewed the code, current WordPress development environment and started searching the best WordPress development practices. The main findings of our analysis are in this article.

Since we developed our first plugins and decided to upload their free versions to Wordpress.org to get general feedback, we’ve found out that it’s not that clear how to do it. In this article, we’re going to share our experience on how to add plugin to Wordpress directory.

This plugin is developed to improve the SEO capabilities of the WooCommerce and Yoast SEO Plugin combo, described in the WooCommerce SEO Audit we’ve done recently. Yoast WooCommerce SEO Addon ensures meeting all of the recommendations given in our audit; therefore it provides you with the best results and opportunities for further promotion. This is the first version of the plugin, and we are going to continue developing new tools and features for even more effective SEO for your WooCommerce based store.

Woocommerce Permalinks Manager is developed to improve current WooCommerce url configuration features and provide better display and extra capabilities for your online store SEO, according to the WooCommerce SEO Audit we conducted recently.

As part of a comprehensive analysis of the key points of WordPress and WooCommerce, we could not bypass the WooCommerce security issues. When looking at the core of the platform, there are generally no striking security issues in WordPress. There are only relatively narrow places that can potentially cause hacking. The vast majority of these bottlenecks in WordPress sites are actually easy to control. The core of this system has gone a long way to development, so it’s quite safe. Surprising as it may sound, web developers are serious about security and release patches very quickly. One of the strengths of WordPress is the ease of upgrading and the high speed of the development cycle.

Template or theme, as WordPress users call it, is one of the most important tools in every CMS or ecommerce platform. That’s what, to a great extent, defines the quality of the display of the features and the speed of customization, regarding the end user’s needs. The market of WooCommerce solutions offers plenty of premium themes from different developers. Since developing of an all-purpose theme is one of our key objectives, we evaluated the most popular existing and best WooCommerce themes by several parameters.