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How to show announcements in WordPress
FooPlugins Guide
FooPlugins

How to Add an Announcement Bar in WordPress (2 Methods)

Want to display eye-catching announcements on your WordPress website? Then you need an announcement banner plugin. In this article, we introduce you to the popular FooBar plugin and run through the steps of using it to add announcement banners to your site.  What Are Announcement Bars and Why Use Them?

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How to Set Up WooCommerce Flash Sales That Convert
Ecommerce Strategies
Tam Vincent

How to Set Up WooCommerce Flash Sales That Convert

A flash sale is an effective way to create a sense of urgency that drives quick sales, while helping to clear out excess inventory or old stock. However, it can be difficult to properly set up flash sales in WooCommerce, with challenges such as nailing down the right promotion strategy

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Top 7 Countdown Plugins for WordPress to Create Urgency
WordPress Guide
Tam Vincent

Top 7 Countdown Plugins for WordPress to Create Urgency

Are you looking for a surefire way to boost conversions on your WordPress site? Any ecommerce (or WooCommerce) and WordPress sites selling services can benefit from an increase in conversions, which would result in greater profits.  Using countdown timers as an effective way of creating perceived scarcity, which influences buying

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Top Bar WordPress Plugins in 2023: The 8 Best Options
WordPress Guide
FooPlugins

WordPress Notification Bar Plugin Comparison Guide

Want to alert your WordPress website visitors to new product launches, sales, or other important announcements? Then you need a WordPress notification bar plugin! A notification bar is an eye-catching, non-intrusive way to capture your audience’s attention at the top of your site, making it ideal for highlighting special promotions,

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How to boost black friday sales
Ecommerce Strategies
Tam Vincent

7 Ways to Use FooBar to Boost Black Friday Sales Now

It’s nearly time for the biggest sales of the year! That’s right, Black Friday is around the corner. But if you want to convert visitors into customers, then you need to start promoting your Black Friday sales as soon as possible. In fact, you can start promoting your sale now,

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best WordPress cookie notice plugins
WordPress Notification Bar
Tam Vincent

Exploring Top-Rated Cookie Consent Plugins for WordPress

If you run a WordPress website, you know that making sure your visitors are aware of your cookie policy is crucial. Not only is it a good way to gain their trust, but it’s also a legal requirement under laws like the GDPR and CCPA. So how can you ensure

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How to Add a Sale Price in WooCommerce
FooPlugins Guide
FooPlugins

How to Add a Sale Price in WooCommerce

If you own or run a WooCommerce store, you’ll know that sales are key to its success – but you may be asking, How do I set sale prices that will actually work? There are several reasons why you might want to add sale prices to your WooCommerce store:   In

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8 Tips for Optimizing Your Ecommerce Site for Better Conversions
Practical Tips
Tam Vincent

8 Tips for Optimizing Your Ecommerce Site for Better Conversions

Ecommerce optimization generally refers to a detailed approach that you can take to improve your website’s conversion rate. From the layout to the navigation and the design elements, the focus should be on removing friction to get more people to purchase from your website. By optimizing their ecommerce WordPress sites,

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Best Plugins for Call to Actions in WordPress
Practical Tips
FooPlugins

The 7 Best Plugins for Call to Actions in WordPress [2024]

Want to increase conversions on your WordPress website? Then you need to improve the way you display call to actions (CTAs). Call to actions are an important part of any website but are especially useful for an eCommerce website. They help you to communicate important information to site visitors and

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Foobar update new look and new features
Company Announcements
Tam Vincent

FooBar Update: New Look and New Features

We’ve recently updated FooBar and FooBar PRO, and there are a few new features that you’re sure to love. Notification Bar Selection The first change you will see is the Notification Bar selection. We’ve updated this to give you a better understanding of the various bar types and how they

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woocommerce free shipping bar now available
Company Announcements
Tam Vincent

WooCommerce Free Shipping Bar Now Available

The latest bar type in FooBar Pro, the WooCommerce Free Shipping Bar, is now available. This bar allows you to set up a Free Shipping notification, as well as show customers when they have spent enough money to qualify for the free shipping. This is a great addition to any

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How to boost fomo on your ecommerce site
Practical Tips
FooPlugins

7 Ways To Boost FOMO On Your WordPress Ecommerce Site

There are anywhere between 12 – 24 million eCommerce websites online, with more going live every day. That makes it essential for you, as an eCommerce site owner using WordPress, to pull out all the stops when it comes to driving sales – and FOMO is a powerful tool for

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Common ecommerce mistakes to avoid
Practical Tips
FooPlugins

6 WordPress Ecommerce Mistakes You Might Be Making Right Now

WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems for ecommerce websites, because of its immense flexibility when it comes to both functionality and design. Yet it is because of its wide flexibility that mistakes can be made by WordPress ecommerce site owners. We touch on the six big

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pros and cons of using popup notifications on wordpress
Practical Tips
FooPlugins

Pros And Cons Of Using Popup Notifications On Your WordPress Site

Popup notifications are extremely popular because they force website visitors to engage with them. They are particularly useful in ecommerce, in countering exit intent or cart abandonment. Yet they can become annoying if overused, and Google has said that it will penalise sites using “intrusive interstitials”. In this article, we

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tips for making a mobile-friendly online store
Practical Tips
FooPlugins

Easy Tips For Making A Mobile-Friendly Online Store

In a previous article we looked at the accelerating trend of mobile-friendly shopping in ecommerce, which is set to outpace desktop shopping soon. With more than half the world’s population now accessing the Internet via mobile it’s imperative for you, as the owner of an online store, to optimise it

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10 ways to prep for online shopping this christmas
Practical Tips
FooPlugins

10 Ways To Prep Your Site For Online Shopping This Christmas

There is no doubt that more people will be doing online shopping, this socially distanced festive season, than at any time in history (data from Adobe Analytics shows that the last holiday season saw two years’ worth of ecommerce growth in a single year). While Jeff and the retail giants

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Black Friday: Are you ready?
Practical Tips
Tam Vincent

Black Friday: Are You Ready for the Sale Season?

Black Friday, and the end-of-year sale season, are nearly upon us. Kicking off with Halloween at the end of October, and followed closely by Black Friday (and Cyber Monday) at the end of November, the year’s big sales come to a close with Christmas and New Years. It’s a chance

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How to save money and make money when starting an online store
Practical Tips
FooPlugins

How To Save And Make Money When You Start An Online Store

You can buy almost anything nowadays, “from the comfort of your home”. From a website that sells prison apparel to this popular online store for edible insects, more and more small stores and businesses are moving online.  This digital migration was underway well before the global COVID-19 pandemic, but the

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Latest FooBar Update Improves On User Experience
Company Announcements
Tam Vincent

Jan 2021 FooBar Update: Scheduling, Effects And More

We’ve recently released an update to FooBar (free and Pro), geared towards improving user experience. The FooBar update will also make it easier for you to get the most out of your notification bars. Below we take a look at what’s new in FooBar: Realtime Previews It can be frustrating,

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FooBar relaunched
Company Announcements
Tam Vincent

FooBar Relaunched: Improved WordPress Notifications

We’re hugely excited to announce the relaunch of FooBar, our WordPress notification bar plugin. FooBar has been updated, streamlined and improved, and we think it’s looking fantastic. Some of you may remember FooBar from the early FooPlugins days. It was a simple notification bar, that worked well enough. But we

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2019 Forecast: what you can expect from FooPlugins this year
Company Announcements
Tam Vincent

FooPlugins 2019 Forecast

2019 promises to be a year filled with exciting developments for FooPlugins! This year, we’re planning on bringing you a few of the features you’ve been asking for, along with some other cool stuff. Here’s a look at what FooPlugins has planned for the year ahead: A Foo Theme Our

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