https://neoplugin.com/blog/ Practical WooCommerce insights on performance, HPOS, plugin architecture, and sustainable store growth. en Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:03:23 +0000 https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-product-reviews-block-skips-review-hooks https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-product-reviews-block-skips-review-hooks Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-review-reminder-timing https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-review-reminder-timing Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-wishlist-black-friday https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-wishlist-black-friday Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-coupon-stacking-loyalty-points https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-coupon-stacking-loyalty-points Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-loyalty-points-black-friday https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-loyalty-points-black-friday Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://neoplugin.com/blog/how-to-get-product-reviews-woocommerce https://neoplugin.com/blog/how-to-get-product-reviews-woocommerce Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://neoplugin.com/blog/incentivized-reviews-woocommerce https://neoplugin.com/blog/incentivized-reviews-woocommerce Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paying customers for reviews is legal and common, but three lines decide whether it stays that way. What the FTC, the UK, the EU and Google actually say about incentivized reviews, why a bonus for five stars crosses the line, and how to disclose and moderate so the reviews you paid for still count. https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-review-request-email https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-review-request-email Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-photo-reviews https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-photo-reviews Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 WooCommerce has no photo upload of its own, so photo reviews need a plugin. What a photo review is worth, what to pay for one, the two file-size limits that silently drop uploads, and the block-theme render path that hides the photo a shopper just uploaded. https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-product-reviews https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-product-reviews Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://neoplugin.com/blog/choosing-a-woocommerce-rewards-plugin https://neoplugin.com/blog/choosing-a-woocommerce-rewards-plugin Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A rewards plugin holds a balance you owe your customers, inside a database you have to live with for years. These are the nine questions to ask before you install one — who owns the ledger, what is metered, what happens when you stop paying, and what it costs to leave. https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-disable-reviews https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-disable-reviews Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Four things get called disable reviews, and each needs a different switch. Where each one lives in WooCommerce and WordPress, what happens to the Reviews tab, how to stop comment spam on media, and the middle path that keeps your social proof. https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-points-and-rewards https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-points-and-rewards Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The settings screen is the easy part. This is what happens between a customer placing an order and a discount coming off their next one — the order status that triggers the award, the amount it is calculated on, rounding, expiry order, refunds and multi-currency. https://neoplugin.com/blog/wordpress-rewards-plugins-compared https://neoplugin.com/blog/wordpress-rewards-plugins-compared Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Every rewards plugin has a feature table, and the vendor wrote it. Here are nine tests you can run on a staging store in an afternoon, a scorecard to fill in, and what three pricing models really cost over three years. https://neoplugin.com/blog/wordpress-loyalty-plugins https://neoplugin.com/blog/wordpress-loyalty-plugins Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A WordPress loyalty plugin touches your checkout, your database and your customer data, and most of that is invisible from the plugin listing. Here are the seven checks that predict whether you will still be happy with it in a year. https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-loyalty-program https://neoplugin.com/blog/woocommerce-loyalty-program Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 A WooCommerce loyalty program pays customers points for buying, and those points bring them back. This guide covers the five settings that decide whether it works, the math behind what it costs you, and how to run one for free on your own store. https://neoplugin.com/blog/how-to-sell-variable-products-well-in-woocommerce https://neoplugin.com/blog/how-to-sell-variable-products-well-in-woocommerce Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Sizes, colors and bundles are where most WooCommerce shops make their money — and where the buying decision actually happens. Here is what your product page should do at the moment a shopper picks an option. https://neoplugin.com/blog/birthday-emails-woocommerce-repeat-sales https://neoplugin.com/blog/birthday-emails-woocommerce-repeat-sales Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Automated emails earn about 22 times more per send than the newsletter you blast to everyone. A birthday is the one date every customer has, and the one they will happily tell you. Here is the data, and how to set it up for free. https://neoplugin.com/blog/turn-first-time-buyers-into-repeat-customers https://neoplugin.com/blog/turn-first-time-buyers-into-repeat-customers Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Roughly a quarter of first-time WooCommerce customers ever come back on their own. Give them a points balance worth returning for, then tell them it exists in the three places that decide whether they do — the product page, the confirmation page, and the email that lands when the points do. https://neoplugin.com/blog/introducing-neowish-free-woocommerce-wishlist https://neoplugin.com/blog/introducing-neowish-free-woocommerce-wishlist Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 NeoWish 1.0 is out and free. Guests save products without signing up, keep the list when they log in, and you finally see which products people want most.