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Missing Indexes and/or Missing Auto_Increment Attribute

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When migrating a WordPress installation from one server to another, it is important that you verify the integrity of the database. The tables can be created properly but you must check for missing indexes and ensure that all primary key columns have the AUTO_INCREMENT column attribute.

Missing indexes and auto_increment column attributes in a WordPress database throw error messages which make it difficult to debug the problem and fix your WordPress installation.

When tables are missing indexes or the AUTO_INCREMENT column attributes are missing, data is saved to tables without a unique identifier which makes finding the data more difficult later when needed.

I got an email today from a person who paid to have their site migrated from one server to another. They told me about the horrendous process they had been through and yet they were still encountering problems.

When they tried to create a new page or post, they encountered this error – “You are currently editing the page that shows your latest posts.“

Missing index auto_increment can generate WordPress error - You are currently editing the page that shows your latest posts.

The person explained that they were not editing a page but creating a new page and the error message made absolutely no sense.

I did a search on Google and found numerous posts explaining that this error message was generated when an index was missing on the wp_posts table. This particular WordPress installation was a multi-site instance which complicated matters because the main site worked fine – new posts could be added without issue. It was the sub-site that was having the problem. So, I checked the wp_posts, wp_2_posts, and wp_3_posts tables in the database, I found that the indexes were in place. Thinking that the indexes could be corrupt, I deleted them and re-created them. The error still displayed.

Then I checked for the AUTO_INCREMENT attribute on the ID columns. Sure enough, they were missing on all the sub-site tables (wp_2_posts and wp_3_posts). I altered the tables to add it, retried the page and the error was gone.

The WordPress error messages generated don’t always make sense but if you encounter the error message “You are currently editing the page that shows your latest posts.” check your indexes and primary key column attribute for any missing AUTO_INCREMENT attributes.

How To: Configure Our WooCommerce ActiveCampaign Plugin

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Before we begin to configure our WooCommerce ActiveCampaign plugin, please know ActiveCampaign has four (4) subscription levels – Lite, Plus, Professional and Enterprise. The Plus, Professional and Enterprise subscriptions offer Deep Data Integration that works with WooCommerce and other popular eCommerce solutions to synchronize online sales with the ActiveCampaign CRM. This integration collects your contact’s sales history which can trigger automations and/or subscribe contacts to lists depending upon the value of the sale or the contents of the order.

The Deep Data Integration and site tracking that is offered with the ActiveCampaign premium subscriptions enable you to track abandoned carts. Cart abandonment rates are almost 75% according to a recent study. Therefore, your sales conversion rates may improve by subscribing to a premium level of ActiveCampaign.

For those using the Lite subscription, we have an alternative way to track your customer purchases. We built our plugin before ActiveCampaign built their Deep Data Integration and it still serves a great many businesses.

Time needed: 20 minutes.

Follow these steps to configure the WooCommerce ActiveCampaign Plugin by EqualServing to get your plugin setup and ready.

  1. Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’

    From your WordPress administration, mouse over Plugin and select Add New from the pop-out menu.

  2. Search for ‘WooCommerce ActiveCampaign’

    In the keyword search box, enter the keywords ‘activecampaign woocommerce‘ and select the plugin authored by EqualServing.

  3. Activate the plugin

    Activate the WooCommerce ActiveCampaign plugin from your Plugins page.

  4. Establish WooCommerce Integration

    Mouse over the WooCommerce menu item and select Settings from the pop-out menu.WooCommerce ActiveCampaign settings integration page

  5. Click on the Integration tab.

    The ActiveCampaign configuration panel should display. If other integrations are available, just make sure you select the link labeled ‘ActiveCampaign.’

  6. Enable the plugin and enter the necessary API information.

    Press the Save changes button to continue with the rest of the configuration.

  7. Select the Subscribe event.

    WooCommerce has various order statuses to denote the stage in the order processing. The statuses are – Pending payment, Failed, Processing, Completed, On-Hold, Cancelled, Refunded. For more information, please see the WooCommerce docs. Of these statuses, our plugin can subscribe your customer at one of three statuses – Order Created, Order Processing, or Order Completed.

  8. Select the Main List you want your customers subscribed to.

    This dropdown list will be populated with all the List names you have created in ActiveCampaign. Select the List you want your customers subscribed to for future correspondence. If you don’t see a list you created, click the link to reset the list and a call will be made to ActiveCampaign to refresh the list.

  9. Apply a specific tag to your customers.

    This dropdown list will be populated with every tag you have created in ActiveCampaign. If you want a particular tag applied to your customer, you can select it from this list.

  10. Select Display Opt-In Field

    Visible, checked by default – customers will be presented with an “Opt-in” checkbox during checkout which will be checked by default but the contact will only be added to the Main List above if the checkbox remains checked during the checkout process.
    Visible, unchecked by default – customers will be presented with an “Opt-in” checkbox during checkout which will not be checked by default but the contact will only be added to the Main List above if they opt-in.
    Hidden, checked by default – customers will not see an “opt-in” checkbox during checkout and all customers will be added to the List selected in the Main List option.

  11. Enter an Opt-In Field Label

    Here you can enter the text you would like to see displayed next to the opt-in checkbox visible from the above step. WooCommerce ActiveCampaign display label

  12. Do you want the Opt-In Field Positioned Above Order Notes?

    By default, the Opt-In Field will appear below the Order Notes. If you would like the Opt-In Field to appear above the Order Notes, please check this box.

  13. Tag Products Purchased

    If you enable this option, all customers added to ActiveCampaign via a purchase through Woocommerce will be tagged with the WooCommerce product id. WooCommerce ActiveCampaign contact tags and lists

  14. Enter a Purchased Product Tag Prefix

    If Tag Products Purchased is enabled, customers added to ActiveCampaign via a purchase through WooCommerce will be tagged with this prefix followed by the product id of the product purchased. If multiple products are purchased, you will see this text followed by the product id for each and every product purchased.

  15. Enter any Purchased Product Additional Tags

    If Tag Products Purchased is enabled, customers added to ActiveCampaign via WooCommerce can be tagged with additional information.
    For example:
    + To tag your customers with the product SKU of all the products they buy, just enter #SKU# in this field.
    + To tag customers with the product category, enter #CAT#.
    + To tag customers with both the product SKU and product category, enter “#SKU#, #CAT#“. Please note the comma between the two placeholders. This will generate two separate tags. If the comma is omitted, one tag will be applied with the SKU and category name in it. If this field is left blank, NO tag will be applied.

If you have any problems configuring the plugin, please feel free to submit a ticket with our helpdesk at https://www.equalserving.com/support.

Sales Cadence ActiveCampaign Automation

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I have been using ActiveCampaign for a few years and I am pleased with the functionality and the appealing price point. Recently, I was asked if a sales cadence contact flow recommended on the HubSpot blog could be implemented in ActiveCampaign. I reviewed the flow of activities and I was convinced that this was certainly do-able. I’ll admit it, I do love a challenge and I set out to create a Sales Cadence ActiveCampaign Automation using the HubSpot article as my guide.

The ActiveCampaign automation that I came up with requires 10 tags. The whole goal of the automation is to have the contact respond to an email. Once they respond, the automation is ended and they are sent to a separate automation.

I created an email template for the automation. It includes one paragraph with links that allow the contact to, either stop the email sequence completely, or stop the email sequence, but move them to a Remind Me Later About Your Services automation. This latter automation will email contacts when there are special events coming up.

Part 1 – Start Sales Cadence Automation

sales cadence activecampaign automation - part 1

Tagging a contact with the tag Sales Cadence: Begin, will trigger the automation. The first 2 steps create a deal for the contact and an Email task in the deal. The automation waits for the email to be created and sent. A secondary automation is triggered when the Email task is complete that tags the contact with the tag Sales Cadence: Intro Email Sent. Once the contact is tagged with this tag, they proceed to the next step.

Part 2 – Prepared Emails in Sales Candence Automation

sales cadence automation - part 2

These steps are self explanatory. The contact waits two (2) days and at 10am the contact’s timezone, we send the second email and then two (2) days later the third email is sent out.

Part 3 – Warm Call

sales cadence - part 3

Here the contact waits two (2) more days before being sent one more short and sweet email. If still no reply from the contact, we schedule a call to take place two days later. Once the call is marked complete, the contact waits another two (2) day period before another prepared email is sent out from the automation.

activecampaign automation - sales cadence

According to Carlos A. Monteiro, the gentleman who authored this process, this is a good time to send a second very personal email with an article or photos or some other link that is appropriate to win over the sale. This personal email will target a need the contact may have discussed on their blog or in their social media feed that you discovered while following them over the course of this sales process.

After the Article/Link/Photo Email is sent, we schedule another call to be added to the deal to take place in two (2) days.

Part 4 – Last Chance For The Win

activecampaign email marketing automation

We wait two (2) more days and send the last pre-authored email from the automation. Here the contact will wait for an additional ten (10) days in our hopes they respond to any of the previous emails. If they don’t respond, they are tagged as lost, the deal is marked as lost and the deal is moved to the lost stage of the Sales Cadence pipeline.

Part 5 – Goal Achieved Sales Cadence Automation

sales cadence email marketing automation activecampaign - part 6

This very last part of the automation directs the actions taken on those contacts that achieve the goal we set – Contact Replied to Email.

If at any time during this automation the contact responds to an email, the contact has achieved the goal and is immediately moved to this section of the automation bypassing all other steps.

Here the contact is tagged with the tag Sales Cadence: Has Replied, the deal is moved to the To Contact stage in the pipeline and the deal status is marked as Won.

In our example, the contact is added to the next automation where we schedule an appointment to review their requirements. However, your process may add the contact to a nurture series or suspend all automations while you work through the order process. The next stage depends completely upon your sales processes and procedures.

I was pleased that I was able to meet the challenge and create the Hubspot recommended Sales Cadence using ActiveCampaign Automation. I was also happy that ActiveCampaign has the flexibility and functionality to meet the needs of a mixed channel sales process.

Coda Document – The New File Type

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Coda is a new document type that combines the functionality of word processing, spreadsheets and databases into one document. Within a Coda document, you can build tables of data and easily embed results from the table directly in your text portions of your document. Those results can be a formula summing columns from a table or two or embedding a chart depicting the data from any of your tables.

No longer must you copy formula results from Excel or Google Sheets to Word or Google Doc. Simply press the equal sign (=) in the Coda document to trigger the visual formula builder. An embedded formula can contain complex data queries or simple sums of columns or charts created from your table data.

Coda was founded by Shishir Mehrotra and Lane Shackleton, two former Google employees. Shishir and Lane realized even with an internet filled with applications many organizations including Google/Youtube ran using customized spreadsheets and documents. Their mission is to revolutionize the way we see data – no more artificial boundaries around documents, spreadsheets and databases – combine them and allow “makers” to create powerful custom applications for their organizations.

Coda provides a number of templates that you can use to start your own document. Or dissect the template to discover how others have accomplished tasks that you need for your own document. Coda support is terrific and I cannot emphasize that enough. The Coda support members are always eager to help and provide assistance. Aside from posting questions or issues directly to the support team, Coda encourages you to post questions and ideas to their community forum which the Coda team members actively monitor.

Using Coda, we built a timesheet management, invoice application for freelancers, and a recipe costing model. Zapier has built an integration for Coda and moving data from QuickBooks, Shopify or any other application is only a Zap away.

Give Coda a shot on your next project.

Import Products Hosted on 1ShoppingCart Into WooCommerce WordPress

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Many people use the popular 1ShoppingCart eCommerce and marketing software to sell digital products and/or physical products but adding those products into your WordPress website can be very tedious and error-prone.

Great News! You can now easily import your *simple* products hosted on 1ShoppingCart into WordPress. This method is free and does not require a developer.

A new built-in CSV importer was included in WooCommerce as of version 3.1.0 that was released on 2017-06-28. This is terrific news because you no longer need to purchase and install a premium Importer plugin to display your *simple* products in your WordPress site.

If your products are complex, with many product options, this method will NOT work for you because the built-in importer does not allow you to import all the product options that you are able to configure using 1ShoppingCart.com.

The WooCommerce’s built-in importer can be used to create all your products. Then you can use the importer again, at a later date, to update your products to reflect price and/or description changes. BUT, in order to update your products in WooCommerce, you need a way to uniquely identify the product. You can do this with a unique product name or SKU.

10 Steps to copy your 1ShoppingCart catalog to WooCommerce

Follow these simple steps to export your products from 1ShoppingCart, prepare the exported file for WooCommerce import and then import the file into WooCommerce.

  1. Install and configure WooCommerce.
    If you need help installing and configuring WooCommerce on your WordPress site, you can follow the instructions published by WooCommerce at https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/installing-uninstalling-woocommerce/.
  2. Export your products from 1ShoppingCart.
    1. 1ShoppingCart product export menu item Navigate to the Products menu item, select Import/Export and then select Export Products.
    2. 1ShoppingCart product export details Select Product Details from the dropdown list box and click/tap the Export button. An export file will be created and downloaded to your computer in CSV format.
  3. Prepare your CSV file to import into WooCommerce.
    The export created by 1ShoppingCart.com is not completely ready for import into WooCommerce. A few columns need to be added to the original CSV to ensure its easy import into WooCommerce. I used Google Sheets to manipulate the file. The formulas you find below are Google Sheets formulas but will also work with Excel. CAUTION: WooCommerce requires a UTF-8 formatted file. Excel for Mac will not produce a valid UTF-8 file and your import will fail. Please use Google Sheets instead.

    Your export from 1ShoppingCart.com contains 34 columns. You will be adding 5 more columns to the file.

    Download sample CSV file with added columns here

    1. 1ShoppingCart find merchant idImages: Take a look at your export. Notice that the 26th column contains the name of the product image but not the full path to the image file. You will need the full image path to import the file correctly into WooCommerce. The full path of the image includes your 1ShoppingCart.com Merchant Id. If you do not know your 1ShoppingCart.com Merchant Id, the image to the left shows you where to find it in your Admin panel.
       
      Add a new column and label it Images. Insert this formula to the newly created column. The formula will preface the filename found in column Z with the “https://www.mcssl.com/content/” + your Merchant Id + “/”. Which will produce https://www.mcssl.com/content/000000000/my_image_file.jpg.

      =if(Z2="","","https://www.mcssl.com/content/MerchantID/"&Z2)

      Please be sure to replace the text MerchantID with your own Merchant ID. For example, if your Merchant ID is 789665, you would enter the formula as –

      =if(Z2="","","https://www.mcssl.com/content/789665/"&Z2)

      Copy the formula down the column for each product row in the spreadsheet.

    2. Button Text: Add a new column and label it Button Text. You will fill this column with the words or phrase that you want to see on your WooCommerce buttons. This can be “Add to Cart,” “Buy Now,” etc.
       
      Copy the formula down the column for each product row in the spreadsheet.
    3. Type: Add a new column and label it Type. You will enter the word “external” into this column for each of the products that you are importing. Because you will be selling your products via 1ShoppingCart, you will need to let WooCommerce know that WooCommerce is only listing and describing the product, and the item will be sold elsewhere. Marking the product external ensures that the customer is taken to 1ShoppingCart.com to complete the transaction.
       
      Copy the formula down the column for each product you want to import.
    4. Published: The next column to add is Published. In the 25th column, you will see a field called Active. The column has the values TRUE/FALSE to denote that the product is an active product or not. WooCommerce does not have an Active field but it does have a Published field. The Published field requires a 1 to Publish or a 0 for Draft. Therefore, this next formula will convert the TRUE or FALSE in column 25 to a 1 or 0. Enter the following formula –
      =if(Y2,1,0)

      Copy the formula down the column for each product row in the spreadsheet.

    5. Categories: If you look at the 27th column of your spreadsheet, you will see the field called “path.” This field contains the product category(ies). If the product falls into multiple categories, you will see that the data in this column appears in this format – [Grocery,Beverage]. Notice that the multiple categories are surrounded by square brackets ( [ ] ). If you were to import this column as is into WooCommerce, it would create category names with those square brackets in them. The formula in this new column will remove those square brackets if they are present in the data. Enter the following formula in the new column.
      =if(AA2="","",SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(AA2,"[",""),"]",""))

      Copy the formula down the column for each product row in the spreadsheet.

  4. Download the Google Sheets file to your device as a CSV file.
    This is important. You must download the Google Sheets file in CSV format.
  5. Open WooCommerce in WordPress
    1. Navigate to Products | All Products in your WordPress Admin panel.
    2. woocommerce import from csvIf there are no products in WooCommerce, you will see two buttons at the bottom of the page. Click/Tap on the “Import products from a CSV file” button.
    3. woocommerce addnew import buttonsIf you already have a product in WooCommerce, look at the top of the page and click/tap the “Import” button.
  6. Select the file to import into WooCommerce
    woocommerce choose csv
  7. Map CSV fields to products
    Here you will map the fields in your 1ShoppingCart.com export to WooCommerce fields. I have listed the column mapping below but if you would like to see the page as rendered in WooCommerce, click/tap here.

    1ShoppingCart FieldsWooCommerce Fields
    idimport as meta
    skuSKU
    productName
    priceRegular price
    shippingDo not import
    weightWeight (lbs)
    product lengthLength (in)
    product widthWidth (in)
    product heightHeight (in)
    current inventoryStock
    recurring cycleDo not import
    recurring start durationDo not import
    recurring priceDo not import
    destination urlDo not import
    thank you urlDo not import
    clear cart urlDo not import
    autorespondersDo not import
    shipping calculationDo not import
    state taxDo not import
    country taxDo not import
    short descriptionShort description
    long descriptionDescription
    sale priceSale price
    on saleDo not import
    activeDo not import
    imageDo not import
    pathDo not import
    price typeDo not import
    amount labelDo not import
    default priceDo not import
    minimum amountDo not import
    maximum amountDo not import
    eu vatDo not import
    add to cart urlExternal URL
    ImagesImages
    Button TextButton text
    TypeType
    PublishedPublished
    CategoriesCategories
  8. Click/Tap the “Run the importer” button
  9. View results
    woocommerce import successIf the importer finds problems with the file, you will see a link on the results page to the log file that will detail the issues with the file. Correct those errors and re-import the file.
  10. Review your products for completeness

WordPress REST API V2

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With the release of WordPress version 4.7, the REST API is now included in the core therefore you no longer need to install a plugin to use it.

Per Automattic, “WordPress is moving towards becoming a fully-fledged application framework, and we needed new APIs. This project was born to create an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand and well-tested framework for creating these APIs, plus creating APIs for core.”

We wanted to see how easy it is to build an application using the new REST API. So, we looked to solve a long-time pet peeve – finding a decent movie to watch on the many premium cable channels available. You probably thought we’d focus our attention on some revolutionary way we did business or launched websites. Nope. We try to optimize our free time just as much as we do our work day hours.

We were tired of scrolling through the hundreds of movies streaming through our cable packages and not being able to find a decent movie to watch.

Yes, it is true your cable box will allow you to sort movies by genre but not by rating and the rating that is used is not quite accurate, where do those ratings come from anyway? We’ve found IMDB and RottenTomatoes to be more reliable metrics and yes, we have had personal differences of opinion with IMDB but for the most part, the ratings are fairly accurate.

Problem to solve: Hundreds of movies are available to stream via HBO, Showtime and Netflix. Make it easy to find a well-rated movie in the genre of your choosing starring the actors of your choosing.

Answer to problem: movies.siteessential.com

Resources:

Explanation: We found the Guidebox API and we were delighted that it offered the information we needed – movie title, network, movie description, poster image, IMDB link and Rotten Tomatoes link.

Using the results from our requests to the Guidebox API as the driver, we added or updated posts in our WordPress installation with movie details. The second step was to make calls to the OMDb API to retrieve the ratings from IMDB and RottenTomatoes.

Users of the site can query by Network and/or Title and/or Actor and/or IMDB rating to find the movie of their choice.

Thoughts about the REST API

We loved it! We absolutely loved working with the REST API!

Searching posts using Advanced Custom Fields can require complex query strings when you are faced with multiple search criteria. We found searching posts using the REST API easy. Even populating posts with Advanced Custom Fields was made easy by using the REST API.

If you are building an AJAX application and want to make use of the REST API, you must install WPAPI – JavaScript Client for the WordPress REST API. This Javascript library is well maintained and documented and will remove the headache of accessing the WordPress tables.

We have been using movies.siteessential.com and happy with the results.

Abandoned Cart Reminder With WooCommerce and ActiveCampaign

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In this article I will discuss how you can create an Abandoned Cart Reminder process for your WordPress site using WooCommerce and ActiveCampaign to boost sales and encourage customer engagement.

Amazon uses this process all the time. Perhaps you have received one of those Amazon reminder emails saying you’ve added items to your cart and here’s the link to complete your purchase. They look something like this –

Customer Name,
Thank you for visiting Amazon.com. You recently added items to your Shopping Cart. If you haven’t already purchased or removed them, simply visit your Shopping Cart to complete your order.

What you need to create an Abandoned Cart Reminder process with WooCommerce

1. First and foremost, this process requires ActiveCampaign. If you are not using ActiveCampaign, you can click on this link to learn more about this email marketing and automation tool.

2. This process requires that the ActiveCampaign site tracking script be running on your website. The easiest way to add the tracking script to your website is to download and install the ActiveCampaign WordPress plugin from the WordPress repository.

Explanation of the Abandoned Cart Reminder Process

The process steps

The steps of an Abandoned Cart Reminder process are simple and straight forward:

1. Send an email to contacts with link to site, product or shop.
This step is important. When the ActiveCampaign WordPress plugin is installed and activated on your site, you can track a contact’s travels around your site. When you send an email to a contact that contains a link to your site, that link is coded with the contact’s information so that the contact’s activity on your site can be properly tracked. All your contact’s page visits are then recorded in ActiveCampaign. Please note: Activity can only be tracked of known contacts.
2. Contact adds a product to the shopping cart and visits the WooCommerce Cart page (/cart/); contact tagged with [cart created].
The tracking script detects that the contact has visited /cart/ which will trigger an automation that tags the contact with the tag [cart created].
3a. Contact proceeds to the checkout page (/checkout/order-received/*) and completes the product purchase; remove [cart created] tag.
If the contact makes a purchase, we can remove the [cart created] tag. Since the contact made a purchase, we don’t want to send them a reminder to check their cart.
3b. Contact leaves site – abandons the product in the cart.
The contact gets distracted and leaves your site without making a purchase, the contact remains tagged with [cart created].
4. Wait specified amount of time; if contact still has tag [cart created], send the email reminder.
Setting the wait time interval is up to you. The time period can be as short as an hour or as long as 24 hours. It is entirely up to you. Once the time has elapsed, the automation will send a reminder email to the contact.

The ActiveCampaign Automations

Using ActiveCampaign, the process requires two automations. Each automation begins when a contact visits a page on your site.

The first automation, Part 1, is needed to identify the contacts that add a product to their shopping cart. Any contact that adds a product to their shopping cart and visits [YourWebsite]/cart/ gets tagged with [cart created].

The second automation, Part 2, removes the tag [cart created] if a purchase is made when the contact visits [YourWebsite]/checkout/order-received/*. Notice the asterisk in the URL. This is important. When a purchase is made in WooCommerce the contact or customer is redirected to a page with an address like [YourWebsite]/checkout/order-received/[Order Number]/?key=wc_order_9999aa99a9999. For our purposes, we don’t need to know what comes after/order-received/. So, we use a wildcard (*) to accept anything.

What the Abandoned Cart Reminder Process Looks Like

The first diagram on the left below illustrates the process flow, including the campaign that triggers the initial email addressed to your contact, the interactions your contact has with your website and the logic of the two necessary automations. It may seem complicated but once you understand the steps it is quite simple. Click on the image to see the full size image.

The second and third diagrams are screenshots of the ActiveCampaign automations. These will serve as guides for you while creating your automation within your account.

ActiveCampaign Abandoned Cart Reminder Process Flow
ActiveCampaign Abandoned Cart Reminder Process Flow
abandoned cart reminder automation part 1
ActiveCampaign – Abandoned Cart Reminder Automation Part 1
abandoned cart reminder automation part 2
ActiveCampaign – Abandoned Cart Reminder Automation Part 2

Let’s Create the Abandoned Cart Reminder Process

Step 1: Open ActiveCampaign and create a new Automation.
Step 2: Select Start From Scratch automation and name it Part 1 – Abandoned Cart Reminder.
Step 3: Add New Start of Web Page is Visited
Abandoned Cart Reminder - Add New Start of Web Page is Visited - WooCommerce Cart
In the Action Options section, enter the website domain and the path to your WooCommerce cart usually /cart/.
Check the Segment the contacts entering this automation. Select Not currently in automation and select this automation that you are working on Part 1 – Abandoned Cart Reminder. Use the screenshot as a guide.
Step 4: Add a Tag
Abandoned Cart Reminder - ActiveCampaign add a tag
Click the plus sign to add a new action. Click on Contacts in the left column and then click on Add tag. On the next popup, Enter a tag to add, enter [cart created] without the brackets. Use the screenshot as a guide.
Step 5: Wait a Period of Time
 
Click the plus sign to add a new action. Select Conditions and Workflow from the left column and choose Wait. Select For a specified period of time and then enter the time period you want to wait. Tip: While testing, you might want to use just a few minutes (10 or 15 minutes).
Step 6: Send email
Abandoned Cart Reminder - ActiveCampaign Add Action Email
Click the plus sign to add a new action. Select Sending Options from the left column and choose Send email. If you already have the email created, select it from the list. Otherwise, you may see a popup that states –
Send email
You don’t have any emails to send. You can create an email to get started.
Click on the “create an email” to create the email that you would like to send to your returning customer. Use the screenshot as a guide.
Step 7: End this automation
 
Click the plus sign to add a new action. Select Conditions and Workflow from the left column and choose End this automation.
Step 8: Create a new Automation.
Step 9: Select Start From Scratch automation and name it Part 2 – Abandoned Cart Reminder.
Step 10: Add New Start of Web Page is Visited
Abandoned Cart Reminder - Add New Start of Web Page is Visited - WooCommerce Checkout
In the Action Options section, enter the website domain and the path to your WooCommerce cart usually “/checkout/order-received/*” Please ensure that you enter the asterisk in the URL as shown here.
Use the screenshot as a guide.
Step 11: Remove a Tag
Abandoned Cart Reminder - Remove tag cart created
Click the plus sign to add a new action. Click on Contacts in the left column and then click on Remove tag. On the next popup, Enter a tag to remove, enter [cart created] without the brackets. Use the screenshot as a guide.
Step 12: End other automation
 
Click the plus sign to add a new action. Select Conditions and Workflow from the left column and choose End other automation and select “Part 1 – Abandoned Cart Reminder” to remove the contact from Part 1. This step is necessary since the contact made a purchase there is no need to keep them queued in the automation to send the reminder email. Tip: While testing, you might want to use just a few minutes (10 or 15 minutes).
Step 13: End this automation
 
Click the plus sign to add a new action. Select Conditions and Workflow from the left column and choose End this automation.
Step 14: Create an eMail Campaign With A Link to Your Shop
 
Create an email campaign that includes a link to your new product or service or just a link to your site.

I hope this article helped explain how you can add an Abandoned Cart Reminder to your business process using ActiveCampaign and WooCommerce.

Using Simple Social Icons with W3 Total Cache

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In a previous post, W3 Total Cache Garbled My Simple Social Icons, I explained how to prevent your icons from being garbled by adding the Simple Social Icons style sheet to the list of style sheets that never get minified.

Simple social icon problem with W3 Total Cache CDN This image on the left is the result after upgrading the Simple Social Icons plugin to the latest version. This issue was caused because Simple Social Icons now uses scalable vector graphics (SVGs) instead of web fonts for better accessibility and legibility and the W3 Total Cache plugin did not upload the new SVG files to my CDN. No worries, it can be done manually.

To correct the problem so that the Simple Social Icons render correctly with W3 Total Cache follow these steps:

  1. Login to your WordPress Admin panel.
  2. Mouse over the Performance menu item and select CDN.
  3. W3 Total Cache CDN Purge button Look for the Purge button as pictured to the left and tap/click it.
  4. Enter the path and object names for all the SVG files associated with the Simple Social Icons plugin. You can see my list below.
  5. Press the Purge button. The files on your CDN will be deleted and refreshed with the files from your server.
  6. Refresh the page and you should see the icons rendered properly.

Simple Social Icons rendered properly after W3 Total Cache CDN purged.

 

wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/behance.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/bloglovin.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/dribbble.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/email.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/facebook.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/flickr.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/github.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/gplus.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/instagram.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/linkedin.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/medium.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/periscope.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/phone.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/pinterest.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/rss.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/snapchat.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/stumbleupon.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/tumblr.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/twitter.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/vimeo.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/xing.svg
wp-content/plugins/simple-social-icons/icons/SVG/youtube.svg