Card Testing Bots Don’t Care How Small Your Shop Is
One of my clients runs a lovely little handmade shop on WooCommerce. It’s not a big operation. It sells a few orders a week, mostly to regulars and people who’ve found her at local markets. It’s hardly the kind of place you’d expect criminals to target. This week she sent me her failed orders. There were five in ten days, three of them in the last three days. Four had exactly the same order: two of her cheapest product, £10.50 with postage. If you’ve looked after WooCommerce sites for any length of time, you’ll know what that means. Card testing...
“Apple Pay Domain Registration Failed” — Why the Real Bug Wasn’t Where the Error Pointed
If you run WooCommerce Stripe Gateway — the official Stripe plugin for WooCommerce — you’ve probably seen this one in your admin dashboard at some point: “Apple Pay domain registration failed – Please check the logs for more details on this issue.” Worth being specific about the plugin here, since there are a few different ways to get Apple Pay/Google Pay working in WooCommerce, and they don’t all store things the same way. This post is specifically about WooCommerce Stripe Gateway — if you’re on a different payment plugin, the surface symptom might look identical but the underlying fix below...
Advanced Coupons Tab Won’t Go Away? Here’s the Fix
If you’ve ever removed a plugin from a client’s WooCommerce site and noticed a ghost tab still hanging around under WooCommerce > Marketing, you’re not alone. In this case, the culprit was the Advanced Coupons tab — still showing up and displaying a promo page for a plugin that had been uninstalled. Cheeky. What’s Going On? A quick dig through the WordPress.org support threads turned up the developer’s response: “You may see the ‘Advanced Coupon’ tab on your website because you have some of our other plugins installed. This is simply a static page that won’t impact your site’s performance...