Weekly Links Roundup – WooCommerce Payments, Uptime Monitors, Popup Plugins
Here’s our latest selection of curated WordPress and web marketing links to help your business thrive.
For WooCommerce users, a new payments option was announced this past week: WooCommerce Payments. This new service uses Stripe’s payment processing but with a different user experience. However, there’s one big drawback – it requires Jetpack to function. If you’re already using Jetpack to calculate taxes in WooCommerce, then it may be worth a look. If not, I’d probably stick with Stripe. Learn more about WooCommerce Payments. And, why you may want to avoid Jetpack if you can.
Looking for a service to let you know if your website goes down? Here are 12 of the best uptime monitoring services reviewed. Note: if you’re a WP Minder client, we do this for you and always have an eye on your site. Learn about all the benefits of working with us.
Popups are everywhere – they can be useful and engaging, or just terribly invasive. This post about the 5 best WordPress popup plugins also has info on how to make sure your popups are not irritating.
And a few posts from our sister site Red Kite Creative that you might find helpful:
- Tips for extracting a single site from a WordPress Multisite installation
- Did your site get blacklisted by Norton Safe Web for no apparent reason?
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