Email Pro: Open Rate Is a Vanity Metric
Nabeel Azeez runs a Dubai-based email marketing agency with clients in ecommerce, SaaS, and more. He emphasizes…
WooCommerce security: Keep your store safe by catching problems early
You’re scrolling through your news feed when a headline grabs your attention: The North Face has experienced…
BigCommerce alternatives: Why it might be time to switch
On June 1, BigCommerce renamed every plan, lowered the GMV thresholds, and added a fee of up…
How the ONDC Reshapes India Ecommerce
I’ve detailed the ecommerce opportunity in India. The country’s population is now the world’s largest, yet its…
An AI’s answer is only as up-to-date as the documentation it uses
Earlier this year, a merchant taking in-person payments asked our AI support assistant how to quickly accept…
New Ecommerce Tools: July 1, 2026
Every week we publish a rundown of new services for ecommerce merchants. This installment includes updates on…
What’s !important #14: Gap Decorations, random(), field sizing, and More
I know you’re busy, so for What’s !important #14, I’ll be sprinting through what’s been a stacked…
How to make your store readable to AI shopping agents
Your online store should make it simple for customers to find and buy the products they want….
The Shifting Line Between CSS States and JavaScript Events
CSS is listening to us. No, not like that. Rather, CSS is accumulating more and more pseudo-classes…
The Digital Shelf Begins Before the Search Bar
Retail marketers are rethinking what constitutes the digital shelf. Rather than beginning on retailer product pages or…
WooCommerce 10.9: Order email visibility, checkout headroom, and a cleaner admin
WooCommerce 10.9 has launched with some key updates working in the background, as well as with one…
Turkey tops European ecommerce growth
Nowhere in Europe are ecommerce sales expected to grow faster through 2029 than in Turkey. Bulgaria ranks…
Creating Memorable Web Experiences: A Modern CSS Toolkit
I love the fact that CSS is finally reclaiming control over visual interactions, taking charge of the…
Engineer Quits, Launches Online Art School
Florence Morin is an artist-turned-engineer-turned-entrepreneur. She graduated from Canada’s Polytechnique Montréal in 2013, only to realize she…
@custom-media
The CSS @custom-media at-rule allows creating aliases for media queries. This is particularly valuable if you have…
@function
The @function at-rule defines CSS custom functions. These custom functions are reusable blocks of CSS that can…
What’s !important #12: Safari Testing, ::checkmark, HTML Anchor Positioning, and More
What’s !important #12 talks about the old (testing in Safari when you don’t have Safari), the new…
Cross-Document View Transitions: Scaling Across Hundreds of Elements
In Part 1, we covered the gotchas that bite you first: the deprecated meta tag that silently…
Jetpack Search now understands your WooCommerce catalog
Jetpack Search 7.0 adds product-aware filters to WooCommerce stores. Traditional keyword searches match queries to text, potentially…
Jetpack Search now understands your WooCommerce catalog
Jetpack Search 7.0 adds product-aware filters to WooCommerce stores. Traditional keyword searches match queries to text, potentially…
Stack Overflow: When We Stop Asking
Let’s play a quick game: I’ll show a graph and try to guess what it’s about. Source: Data…
Google Says AI Optimization Is Just SEO
Google has finally published guidance for AI optimization. Yet “Optimizing your website for generative AI features on…
How to start selling online: Nail the decisions that matter most
Starting an online store means making a handful of early decisions that you’ll live with for a…
What’s !important #11: 3D Voxel Scenes, Flying Focus, CSS Syntaxes, and More
If 3D voxel scenes (that you can style), flying focus animations, or new CSS syntaxes sound like…