Sean D. Conklin

  • On November 9th, 2024 presented on the topic of WooCommerce Product Landing Pages at WordPress Santa Clarita Valley Meetup. We had a great turnout with a hybrid setup, taking questions from audience members physically present and over Zoom. Here’s the event description and slides: He’ll talk about best practice design and where this concept of…

  • WordPress two factor authentication (2FA)

    Nowadays just about every critical service that we use requires dual authentication methods (2FA). This is more practically known as “the thing that sends you a code by text, email, or Authentication App to verify your identity, after logging in with password”. Security and convenience are always at odds. Everybody dislikes 2FA, but it’s a…

  • There’s no time like the present

    I’ve noticed in talks with several of my clients that they love my “Let’s try it right now” concept. Usually over Zoom and screen-share we make quick attempts to achieve something together in realtime, or backlog it if we run into delays. I use Trello to manage projects, so we toss the details into a…

  • Legacy Woo REST API moved to a plugin

    Over the past few months I’ve received some inquiries about alerts related to the Legacy WooCommerce REST API moving to a plugin in Woo core 9.0. These alerts come because this legacy support was left enabled. Realistically, it’s highly unlikely that in 2024 a feature that was deprecated back in June 2016 would still be…

  • Why keep plugins up to date?

    I recently had another developer ask me why I work to keep plugins current, why I upgrade them. I realize it’s important to see that their question isn’t stupid, and the market out there, developers included, needs to know about software updates and why they matter. So here goes… Security & Bug fixes If you…

  • WordPress hybrid hosting

    I’m cheering-in a new kind of hosting option for high-stakes WooCommerce stores. I’ve become increasingly interested in hybrid WordPress hosting. This is where you rent your own private cloud server (VPS) running the latest Ubuntu LTS operating system then have another service provision the software offering high-capability WordPress control panel access. This tech provides vendor…

  • Presenting at West Orlando WordPress Meetup

    I’m presenting at the West Orlando WordPress Meetup in a couple of weeks on Thursday, March 21st at 6:00pm Eastern (3pm Pacific). Learn about the differences and similarities between Shopify and WooCommerce to help you decide which eCommerce platform is best for your business.

  • Subscriptions using Stripe Checkout

    Selling subscriptions is not for the faint of heart. Yes, even with Shopify. Third party Apps, e.g. Recharge and Appstle, are functional silos. To complicate matters further, there is an entirely new Shopify Customer Portal design that Apps cannot currently run in, only the legacy portal that the theme controls. I gather that Shopify is…

  • Published as a Codeable Expert

    I was published as a Codeable Expert on December 7th, 2023.

  • Fixing Jetpack Contact Form SPAM

    We have so many contact form plugins within the WordPress community. We also have several CAPTCHA systems available for these plugins, usually via Google reCaptcha or Cloudflare Turnstile. It’s all a lot to take in, and these plugins and services can add a lot of weight to a small site. Sometimes I prefer to use…

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