What is WooCommerce?
WooCommerce is a WordPress based plugin used by many small to medium sized businesses for building, tracking and maintaining an easy to use e-commerce solution. Because WooCommerce is updated regularly with new releases, online sellers can add new and existing features frequently, along with resolving any known bugs or security vulnerabilities. WooCommerce is actively installed on over 4 million WordPress sites and is used to drive e-commerce sales on a significant number of websites.Testing for Plugin and Theme Issues
Site issues may arise if you are running a WooCommerce site with a larger number of plugins (20-40). as the number of updates involved, and or running, may cause slowdowns. Additionally, WooCommerce sites with outdated plugins or themes pose a greater risk of a security breach if not addressed. Customers always expect websites to protect their data when using an e-commerce platform like WooCommmerce for sales. Issues like these can be addressed by testing your plugin and theme updates on a staging site and if no problems are seen, you can then safely update your live site with confidence, that your site will work as expected. The first thing we need to review is that we have is a staging site setup. Our Managed WooCommerce and Managed WordPress hosting plans each allow for an easy way to create staging sites from within the site’s management panel. The Softaculous software installed on cPanel contains a WordPress clone/staging feature we can use for this. Also, the Plesk management panel has a WordPress’ Toolkit which contains a staging tool option.Note:
Never update a WooCommerce plugin on a live site without first taking a backup and then, testing it on a staging site. Using a staging site is the best way to ensure that you are not affecting the live site by installing an untested plugin which may cause unintended problems in not tested first. By following this simple plan, you can ensure updates will go as smoothly and your sites will work as intended.



- Does the shop page load correctly?
- Do single product pages load correctly?
- Can you add products to cart?
- Does the Cart page load correctly?
- Does the Checkout page load correctly?
- Does the My Account page load correctly?