Simon Tomkins

As I have far too much time on my hands I made a little site showcasing local, independent Irish producers. It’s important to support brilliant businesses like these. justbuyirish.com

We’ve opened a new epic to rethink product catalog management in WooCommerce. Exploring: •Faster table-based workflows •Inline product variations •Improved quick & bulk editing Early stage, building in public 👇 github.com/woocommerce/wo…

The Senior E-Commerce Engineer at @XeroShoes, @BFTrick, shared facts and figures about moving from @woocommerce to @shopify with a 60 million per year shop. A true apples to apples comparison. Why people tend to believe Shopify is better than WooCommerce due to myths, and some clear facts and truths. (The Coca Cola marketing effect, selling more than Pepsi due to perception, ask your favorite LLM about it). (And one more thing, folks… it becomes again painfully clear that WordPress and WooCommerce plugins are too cheap!)

Nice visual depicting what the abilities API unlocks via @neke989 at #checkoutsummit

Always great to see real data on WooCommerce optimizations - numbers from @jessie_risch at #checkoutsummit

Excellent talk from @vyskoczilova “Tools Fade. Your Expertise Doesn’t”, explaining how she’s using AI tooling, including how she created the presentation! #CheckoutSummit

Fantastic talk from @jkohlbach at #CheckoutSummit, Refreshing existing blog content has proved to be more effective than creating new posts + turning off Google Ads (while scary) had no impact on conversions

@rmelogli Fantastic, well deserved!

O-M-G-I-A-M-S-P-E-A-K-I-N-G-A-T-W-C-E-U 🔥

@bryceadams @commercegurus @metorikhq Thanks Bryce!

@commercegurus @simontomkins @metorikhq Well deserved! Onwards and upwards 🚀

Delighted that Shoptimizer is the #5 most popular WooCommerce theme in the excellent @metorikhq Insights 2026 report!

#RoadToCheckoutSummit −50⏳ Today I launched something new: the Checkout Summit 2026 Founding Contributor initiative → checkoutsummit.com/product/checko… It’s my way of leveraging the WooCommerce community to fill the gap left by slow-moving sponsors. Contributors get immediate rewards: a dofollow link to their favorite site, plus a credit worth double their contribution toward next year’s edition. €10/$13 alone isn’t much. But 100 contributors? That’s a real difference for Checkout Summit 2026. Already at 3, and there’s no limit or commitment. Today’s the day to show up if you want to help.

@AaronRutley Lovely looking website!

We launched MonoDesk today! monodesk.com

commercegurus-demos.myshopify.com/products/cozy-… PW: 12345

We've been doing some super work this week on improving our CommerceGurus Shopify demo store with updated product pages showing off all of our apps on the platform: Size Guides, UGC Videos, and a fantastic Cart Drawer with Upsells! Link in a reply.

Turns out just copying Shopify works. Made our AppSumo cart and checkout pages more similar ro them. Improved conversion 13.01%.

I'm late to the Claude Code extension for Chrome - this has so many interesting use cases

Has anyone played with PHP-only WordPress blocks? If it added custom attribute supports (i.e. fields in the sidebar) you'd essentially have a basic shortcode replacement 🤔

Currently researching 'Load more' UX in eCommerce, I'm a fan of how Asos implement it - does anyone else have any nice patterns to share? I'll add an excellent implementation guide in a reply to this.

@AnMailleach @EU_Commission This is the way chromewebstore.google.com/detail/google-…

Is there a way to override the @EU_Commission's insistence that I waste my time when trying to find a map of something and instead have google maps come up automatically on the results?

@rmelogli @WooCommerce @jamesckemp I wrote a guide on styling this: commercegurus.com/docs/shoptimiz…

Hey @WooCommerce, @jamesckemp and WooPayments devs Can you please allow us to customize the CSS of the credit card form? Because it's a Stripe iframe, I can't do much about it at the moment: Input fields have no padding, I'd like to match my theme styles, add right padding to the credit cards...