<h2>Increase Security with Extended Admin Tools</h2>
<p>Use the <strong>Admin Tools for WooCommerce extension </strong>to increase security for you store and your customers.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
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<td style="border: none"><strong>Security first</strong></td>
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<li>Protect unauthorized access to the files on your webserver.</li>
<li>Prevent editing plugin and theme code.</li>
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<td style="border: none"><strong>Test and debug</strong></td>
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<li>Inspect the internal data stored in the WordPress DB tables for products and orders.</li>
<li>Test your store’s checkout without actually charging customers.</li>
<li>Route all emails to yourself on a local/staging site.</li>
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<td style="border: none"><strong>Improve the user experience</strong></td>
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<li>Hide Related Products and Breadcrumbs.</li>
<li>Enable browser cache to improve performance.</li>
<li>Hide ×1 quantity.</li>
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<h3>Security settings</h3>
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<li><strong>Disable Plugin File Editor and Theme File Editor</strong> – This feature allows you to disable the Plugin and Theme File Editors in your WordPress admin. This can help to improve security by preventing unauthorized access to your site’s files.</li>
<li><strong>Deny access to certain files</strong> such as SQL, ZIP, and BAK – a particularly important security setting, which normally requires editing the .htaccess file.</li>
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<h3>Settings for posts and pages</h3>
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<li><strong>Revisions</strong> – Specify whether to keep revisions of posts and pages, and how many,</li>
<li><strong>Auto-date</strong> – Automatically update the date when saving posts, pages and products,</li>
<li><strong>Page excerpts</strong> – Enable the Excerpt metabox for Pages, which is hidden by default.</li>
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<h3>Geolocation simulation/spoofing</h3>
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<li><strong>Overwrite IP/Country</strong> – With these features, you can enter a specific country code or IP address to overwrite the geolocated information. This is useful for testing purposes when you want to simulate a different location for your website.</li>
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<h3>WooCommerce store tweaks</h3>
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<li><strong>Hide Related Products on Single Product pages</strong> – This can be useful if you want to streamline the product page and remove distractions for your customers.</li>
<li><strong>Hide breadcrumbs</strong> – Check if you need them. Breadcrumbs may not be necessary to help users understand their location within the site, or they do not fit with the overall look and feel of the site.</li>
<li><strong>Hide ×1</strong> – When quantity is 1, do not show ×1 on Checkout and Order Review pages.</li>
<li><strong>Enable Block Editor for products</strong> – Use the Gutenberg block editor for product descriptions instead of the classic editor.</li>
<li><strong>Disable product image zoom</strong> – Turn off the magnifying glass zoom effect on Single Product pages. Also prevents loading the related JS and CSS, improving page performance and Google PageSpeed score.</li>
<li><strong>Disable product gallery lightbox</strong> – Prevent product images from opening in a lightbox overlay. Also prevents loading the related JS and CSS.</li>
<li><strong>Disable product gallery slider</strong> – Turn off the image slider/carousel on product galleries. Also prevents loading the related JS and CSS.</li>
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<h3>Email settings</h3>
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<li><strong>Custom “From” name and address</strong> – Override the default sender name and email address for all outgoing WordPress emails.</li>
<li><strong>SMTP configuration</strong> – Send emails through an external SMTP server instead of the default PHP mail function, with configurable host, port, authentication, encryption, and SSL verification settings.</li>
<li><strong>Email Tester</strong> – Send a test email directly from the settings page to verify that your email configuration is working correctly.</li>
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<h3>Performance</h3>
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<li><strong>Enable browser cache</strong> – This is an important setting that can help to improve the performance of a website. By setting a “cache max-age” parameter, web browsers will request a new version of the page less frequently, which can reduce the load on the server and improve the speed at which pages are displayed to users.</li>
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<h3>PHP and Apache settings</h3>
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<li><strong>PHP settings via .htaccess</strong> – Configure PHP time limit, max input vars, memory limit, post max size, and upload max size directly from the admin panel, without editing server configuration files.</li>
<li><strong>Apache Hardening</strong> – Deny access to sensitive file types (SQL, ZIP, BAK, etc.) and enable additional server-level security rules.</li>
<li><strong>ModExpires</strong> – Set browser cache expiration headers for static assets to improve page load times.</li>
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<h3><strong>WooCommerce Subscriptions</strong></h3>
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<li><strong>Set Subscriptions Staging Mode</strong> – This feature allows you to set Subscriptions into the Staging/Duplicate Site mode. This can be useful for testing out new subscription products or for a staging site for your WooCommerce store.</li>
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<h3>Development and debugging</h3>
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<li><strong>Show protected metas</strong> – Allows you to see and edit metadata that is normally hidden in the Custom Fields section of the WordPress editor when editing Products, Posts, and Pages. This can be useful for developers who need to access this information for debugging or customization purposes.</li>
<li><strong><a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/admin-tools-for-woocommerce/disable-heartbeats/">Disable heartbeats</a></strong> – Heartbeats are a feature that enables real-time communication between the server and the browser of a logged-in user through regular “heartbeat” requests. These requests allow for features like auto-saving, post locking, and login expiration warnings. If the Heartbeat API is causing problems while you are debugging your site, disable it here.</li>
<li><strong>Disable cron</strong> – In WordPress, the “cron” is a built-in task scheduler that is used to perform routine tasks such as checking for updates, publishing scheduled posts, and sending email notifications. You may want to disable it on a development/local version of your site.</li>
<li><strong>Enable Data Inspector</strong> – This will show internal data for posts, pages, products, and orders as it is stored in the WordPress database tables.</li>
<li><strong>Enable Fake Payments</strong> – The Fake Payment gateway can be activated at checkout for testing or development purposes. When enabled, it will simulate the processing of an order without actually charging the customer. Supports both classic checkout and WooCommerce Blocks.</li>
<li><strong>Override “To:” for all emails</strong> – Route all outgoing emails to a specified address for testing.</li>
<li><strong>Bcc: for all emails</strong> – Send a blind copy of all outgoing emails to a specified address.</li>
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<p><em>…and ever more coming with each new release!</em></p>
<h2>Screenshots</h2>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-18734001375527 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/admin-tools-for-woocommerce-settings-subtabs.png" alt="Subtabs" width="975" height="117" /></p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-18734001375554 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/admin-tools-for-woocommerce-security.png" alt="Security" width="900" height="458" /></p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-18734000974189 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/admin-tools-for-woocommerce-geolocation.png" alt="Geolocation" width="980" height="340" /></p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-18734001380479 aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/admin-tools-for-woocommerce-subscription-staging.png" alt="Subscriptions" width="980" height="332" /></p>
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<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/admin-tools-for-woocommerce/">Documentation</a></p>
<h4>TIV.NET INC., based in Toronto, Canada, develops and supports the following WooCommerce extensions:</h4>
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<td style="white-space: nowrap;padding: .25em"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/admin-tools-for-woocommerce/" target="_" rel="external noopener">Admin Tools</a></td>
<td style="padding: .25em">A set of utilities for WooCommerce shop owners, administrators, and developers to secure, tune, and debug their store.</td>
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<td style="white-space: nowrap;padding: .25em"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/multi-currency/" target="_" rel="external noopener">Multi-currency</a></td>
<td style="padding: .25em">Lets customers pay in the currency of their choice.</td>
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<td style="white-space: nowrap;padding: .25em"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/paywall-for-woocommerce/" target="_" rel="external noopener">Paywall</a></td>
<td style="padding: .25em">Enables the monetization of various types of content, including videos, documents, etc., by allowing the sale of access to it.</td>
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<td style="white-space: nowrap;padding: .25em"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/tiv-sales-assistant/" target="_" rel="external noopener">Sales Assistant</a></td>
<td style="padding: .25em">Manage store-wide sales from one place – schedule discounts by category, tag, and country instead of editing products one by one.</td>
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Admin Tools

<p>A set of utilities for WooCommerce store owners, administrators, and developers to secure, tune, and debug their stores.</p>

<h2 style="color: #f5247d">Receive Slack notifications for events in your WooCommerce-powered store, as they happen!</h2>
<p>WooCommerce Slack brings your WooCommerce store into the heart of your Slack channel conversations, allowing you and your team to easily stay ‘in the loop’ on what’s happening in your store with minimal effort.</p>
<p>There are currently seven notification events that can optionally be enabled. You can set a specific channel and emoji for each notification, as well as customize the notification text to your liking!</p>
<p>Some notification types also featured ‘extended notifications,’ allowing to you to optionally send detailed order line items or the content of your reviews, saving you from needing to open up your dashboard to check out your latest orders.</p>
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<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-622252" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/notification-types-620x653.png" alt="The available notifications in Slack" width="620" height="653" /></p>
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<li>New Post</li>
<li>New Order</li>
<li>Backorder</li>
<li>Low on Stock</li>
<li>Out of Stock</li>
<li>New Customer</li>
<li>New Review</li>
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<h3>Custom Notification Message Builder</h3>
<p>You can even customize each notification message to be exactly what you’d like. For example, here is a customization of the <strong>New Review</strong> notification and how it looks in Slack:</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2014-10-05-at-5.44.20-pm.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-609202" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2014-10-05-at-5.44.20-pm-620x100.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-10-05 at 5.44.20 pm" width="620" height="100" /></a><br />
<a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2014-10-05-at-5.44.01-pm.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-609203" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Screen-Shot-2014-10-05-at-5.44.01-pm-620x80.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-10-05 at 5.44.01 pm" width="620" height="80" /></a></p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
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<li>7 Notification Types</li>
<li>Easy to Use</li>
<li>Custom Channel / Emoji</li>
<li>Per-Event Specific Channel / Emoji</li>
<li>Custom Notification Messages</li>
<li>Extended Notifications for some notification types</li>
<li>Extensible & Dev-Friendly</li>
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<p>For a closer look at WooCommerce Slack, check out the <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-slack/">available documentation</a> or feel free to open a support request with your pre-sales questions.</p>
<p>Made and supported by the team at:<br />
<img src="https://static.kestrelwp.com/kestrel-logo.png?s=51b1d71259c31e880ca5e881b3d543d59176039a" alt="Kestrel logo" width="200" height="45" /></p>

Slack Notifications

<p>WooCommerce Slack keeps your team connected by sending real-time store notifications directly to your Slack channels. From new orders to stock alerts, every event comes straight into Slack so you’re always in the loop.</p>

Admin Tools vs Slack Notifications