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Practical WooCommerce insights on performance, HPOS, plugin architecture, and sustainable store growth.

A side-by-side of the classic WooCommerce review template, where review photos, the verified badge, helpful votes and the variation summary all show, and the Product Reviews block, where all four are missing because no woocommerce_review_* action fires
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The WooCommerce Product Reviews block skips every review hook

Review photos, badges and votes missing from your WooCommerce product page? WooCommerce renders reviews two ways, and only one fires the woocommerce_review_* actions. On a page built with the Product Reviews block, review add-ons print nothing, with no error. Which stores are affected, how to check, and a tested fix.

October 13, 2026 · 13 min read
A WooCommerce review request email beside a Delay setting raised from 7 to 21 days before Black Friday, so an order completed on 20 November is asked on 11 December
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WooCommerce review reminder emails: when to send them (and why once is enough)

A review reminder that arrives before the parcel, or weeks after the customer has forgotten the order, gets ignored. How to set the delay on a WooCommerce review reminder from the way your store uses the Completed status and the time your products take to judge, what time of day it really arrives, why one well-timed email beats a sequence, and how to keep it away from Black Friday.

October 11, 2026 · 12 min read
A Most Wishlisted report with Linen Shirt highlighted at 48 wishers and 3 sold, beside the Guest Wishlist Lifetime setting raised from 30 to 90 days
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How to use WooCommerce wishlist data to pick your Black Friday discounts

Most Black Friday discounts are picked by guesswork, overstock or last year's bestsellers. A wishlist shows the products people wanted and did not buy. How to read that data in WooCommerce, which products to put on sale, how to reach the people who saved them, and the 30-day guest-list setting to change before October's saves expire.

October 9, 2026 · 14 min read
A WooCommerce cart with a 20% coupon and a 1,000-point loyalty discount stacked, beside the Individual use only setting and the zero-floor cart from the test
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Can customers stack loyalty points on top of your Black Friday coupon? We tested it

Eleven carts on a real WooCommerce 11 store, with every total recorded. Loyalty points stack with every kind of coupon, "Individual use only" does not stop them, the cart can never go below zero, and the customer earns points on the part of the order they paid for with points. What that means for a Black Friday code, and the three filters that change each behavior.

October 7, 2026 · 15 min read
Black Friday without the margin bonfire: loyalty points instead of discounts — NeoPlugin
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Black Friday without the margin bonfire: loyalty points instead of discounts

A Black Friday discount is spent once and gone. A points balance earned on Black Friday is the reason a customer comes back in January. The worked math on 20% off versus 10% off plus 10% back in points, how WooCommerce loyalty points behave on Black Friday orders, sale items, coupons, returns, and what to tell customers so the balance actually gets used.

October 5, 2026 · 19 min read
How to get your first reviews on products that have none — NeoPlugin
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How to get your first reviews on products that have none

A playbook for the WooCommerce products sitting on zero reviews: how to find the ones worth starting with, who to ask and who never to, when to ask, what to offer so the reward is the same for every rating, and the settings that silently stop customers from answering.

October 3, 2026 · 27 min read
WooCommerce review request email: how to switch it on (and the three traps) — NeoPlugin
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WooCommerce review request email: how to switch it on (and the three traps)

WooCommerce 10.8 added its own review request email, and it ships switched off in two places. How to turn it on, what the Delay setting really counts from, what the Review Order page does with a submission, and three traps worth knowing before your customers see it.

September 29, 2026 · 20 min read
WooCommerce product reviews: the complete 2026 guide — NeoPlugin
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WooCommerce product reviews: the complete 2026 guide

How WooCommerce product reviews actually work: the settings that decide whether they appear, where reviews are stored, how to collect and moderate them, and the block-theme trap that hides customer photos in 2026.

September 25, 2026 · 18 min read