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Are you an eCommerce merchant? Then you know that updates to your eCommerce platform, extensions, plugins, and payment gateways are a part of life.
With the updates released for WordPress 5.0 and resultant compliance patches for WooCommerce, the world has become a wee bit easier, at least for those of us who have wagered our lives on WooCommerce. The new updates have brought about a bouquet full of changes, new fixes, improved security, and better storefronts.
Ensure that you update your WooCommerce before you upgrade to WordPress 5.0 for a worry-free life.
Backups are essential to safeguard your store’s online assets in any event of corruption. WordPress saves a part of its data in a database and another part in the files. The themes, plugins and any uploaded content like images and all are located in the wp-content folder. Another is the database, which organizes the products, orders, posts, pages, user login data, and many more. In order to fully backup any store which uses WordPress and WooCommerce, we should take a backup of both the database and the files.
There are two types of backups, manual and automatic.
Once the backups are created it is time to move on to installing the updates. Never test the updates on your live site before trying them on your dev (or local) site. If you are unfamiliar with this process, it may be a good idea to get help from a WooExpert.
Never start the new update installation in the live site.
Message us to set up the staging site for your WooCommerce update.
Remember: Any lost functionality costs customers and money.
Testing is never a waste of time; it saves a lot of stress and saves money in the long run. Never delay testing all the functionalities of your site after deploying the updates. Test your live site to ensure that it works great!
Go to WooCommerce > Extensions > WooCommerce.com Subscriptions to get updates and plugins from WooCommerce. Read more about Managing WooCommerce.com subscriptions.
Always ensure to connect your store to your WooCommerce.com account as this lets you to,
Store/site owners must contact the third-party developers directly for support on any extensions, plugins, themes and payment gateways developed and maintained by third-party developers.
If you are interested in knowing more about the technical specifications of the new update, you can access the detailed document here. FlexiCloud supports WordPress 5.0.x and WooCommerce. Our high spec servers are fine-tuned to provide fast-loading, highly secure and versatile eCommerce hosting. If you enjoyed reading this article, you’ll also enjoy hosting with us at FlexiCloud.