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Say goodbye to manual tool configuration, slow site setup, and clunky local development workflows, and say hello to Studio by WordPress.com, our new, free, open source local WordPress development environment.

We’ve built Studio to be the fastest and simplest way to build WordPress sites locally.

Designed to empower developers, designers, and site builders, Studio offers a seamless solution for creating and running WordPress sites directly on your local machine, as well as showcasing work-in-progress sites with your clients, teams, and colleagues.

Check out a few of our favorite features in the video below:

A new way to develop WordPress locally, available for free

Studio is now available to use for free on Mac*, and you can get up and running with a new local site in just a few minutes:

Install and open Studio.

Click Add site, and you’re done!

Once you have a local site running, you can access WP Admin, the Site Editor, global styles, and patterns, all with just one click—and without needing to remember and enter a username or password.

You can even open your local sites in your favorite development tools, such as VS Code, PhpStorm, Terminal, and Finder, making it even easier to add Studio to your existing development workflow.

*A Windows version of Studio is coming soon, and you can request early access here.

Effortlessly share your work and keep moving forward

In the realm of web development, showcasing local work has often been a challenge when projects live solely on your machine. With Studio’s demo sites, you have a convenient, built-in solution for sharing your progress with your team, clients, or designers.

These publicly-accessible demo sites, hosted on WordPress.com, are a convenient way to share your work without the need for complex server setups or lengthy deployments. In less than 15 seconds, you can have a shareable link to your local site that stays active for seven days.

The best part? Demo sites can be refreshed to reflect your latest build, allowing you to easily convey any updates or changes!

Breaking free from traditional constraints

Unlike traditional local environment tools like MAMP or Docker, Studio takes a fresh approach to local WordPress development. Studio is a lightweight and efficient solution that minimizes overhead and maximizes simplicity by forgoing the need for web servers, MySQL servers, or virtualization technologies.

Behind the scenes, Studio uses WordPress Playground, the WebAssembly-powered PHP binary. Thanks to this technology, there is no need to use a traditional web server, making your development experience much quicker and smoother.

Say goodbye to complex setups and compatibility issues. Studio makes it easier than ever to build and manage WordPress sites locally.

At WordPress.com, we’re committed to making your website management experience seamless. In the last few years alone, we launched staging sites with synchronization features, SSH and WP-CLI access, global edge caching, GitHub Deployments, and more.

Studio is yet another powerful feature to add to your toolkit. Stay tuned for more exciting updates, and remember to follow our blog to stay in the loop.

And, of course, download Studio today. Your local development workflow will thank you.

Major kudos to the Studio team on this launch! Antonio Sejas, Antony Agrios, Kateryna Kodonenko, Philip Jackson, Carlos García Prim, David Calhoun, Derek Blank, Siobhan Bamber, Tanner Stokes, Matt West, Adam Zielinski, Brandon Payton, Berislav Grgicak, Alexa Peduzzi, Jeremy Massel, Gio Lodi, Olivier Halligon, Matthew Denton, Ian Stewart, Daniel Bachhuber, Kei Takagi, Claudiu Filip, Niranjan Uma Shankar, Noemí Sánchez, and our beta testers.

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Hi there! I’m Zander Rose and I’ve recently started at Automattic to work on long-term data preservation and the evolution of our 100-Year Plan. Previously, I directed The Long Now Foundation and have worked on long-term archival projects like The Rosetta Project, as well as advised/partnered with organizations such as The Internet Archive, Archmission Foundation, GitHub Archive, Permanent, and Stanford Digital Repository. More broadly, I see the content of the Internet, and the open web in particular, as an irreplaceable cultural resource that should be able to last into the deep future—and my main task is to make sure that happens.

I recently took a trip to one of Automattic’s data centers to get a peek at what “the cloud” really looks like. As I was telling my family about what I was doing, it was interesting to note their perception of “the cloud” as a completely ephemeral thing. In reality, the cloud has a massive physical and energy presence, even if most people don’t see it on a day-to-day basis.

Automattic’s data center network. You can see a real-time traffic map right here.

Given the millions of sites hosted by Automattic, figuring out how all that data is currently served and stored was one of the first elements I wanted to understand. I believe that the preservation of as many of these websites as possible will someday be seen as a massive historic and cultural benefit. For this reason, I was thankful to be included on a recent meetup for WordPress.com’s Explorers engineering team, which included a tour of one of Automattic’s data centers.

The tour began with a taco lunch where we met amazing Automatticians and data center hosts Barry and Eugene, from our world-class systems and operations team. These guys are data center ninjas and are deeply knowledgeable, humble, and clearly exactly who you would want caring about your data.

The data center we visited was built out in 2013 and was the first one in which Automattic owned and operated its servers and equipment, rather than farming it out. By building out our own infrastructure, it gives us full control over every bit of data that comes in and out, as well as reduces costs given the large amount of data stored and served. Automattic now has a worldwide network of 27 data centers that provide both proximity and redundancy of content to the users and the company itself.

The physical building we visited is run by a contracted provider, and after passing through many layers of security both inside and outside, we began the tour with the facility manager showing us the physical infrastructure. This building has multiple customers paying for server space, with Automattic being just one of them. They keep technical staff on site that can help with maintenance or updates to the equipment, but, in general, the preference is for Automattic’s staff to be the only ones who touch the equipment, both for cost and security purposes.

The four primary things any data center provider needs to guarantee are uninterruptible power, cooling, data connectivity, and physical security/fire protection. The customer, such as Automattic, sets up racks of servers in the building and is responsible for that equipment, including how it ties into the power, cooling, and internet. This report is thus organized in that order.

On our drive in, we saw the large power substation positioned right on campus (which includes many data center buildings, not just Automattic’s). Barry pointed out this not only means there is a massive amount of power available to the campus, but it also gets electrical feeds from both the east and west power grids, making for redundant power even at the utility level coming into the buildings.

The data center’s massive generators.

One of the more unique things about this facility is that instead of battery-based instant backup power, it uses flywheel storage by Active Power. This is basically a series of refrigerator-sized boxes with 600-pound flywheels spinning at 10,000 RPM in a vacuum chamber on precision ceramic bearings. The flywheel acts as a motor most of the time, getting fed power from the network to keep it spinning. Then if the power fails, it switches to generator mode, pulling energy out of the flywheel to keep the power on for the 5-30 seconds it takes for the giant diesel generators outside to kick in.

Those generators are the size of semi-truck trailers and supply four megawatts each, fueled by 4,500-gallon diesel tanks. That may sound like a lot, but that basically gives them 48 hours of run time before needing more fuel. In the midst of a large disaster, there could be issues with road access and fuel shortages limiting the ability to refuel the generators, but in cases like that, our network of multiple data centers with redundant capabilities will still keep the data flowing.

Depending on outside ambient temperatures, cooling is typically around 30% of the power consumption of a data center. The air chilling is done through a series of cooling units supplied by a system of saline water tanks out by the generators.

Barry and Eugene pointed out that without cooling, the equipment will very quickly (in less than an hour) try to lower their power consumption in response to the heat, causing a loss of performance. Barry also said that when they start dropping performance radically, it makes it more difficult to manage than if the equipment simply shut off. But if the cooling comes back soon enough, it allows for faster recovery than if hardware was fully shut off.

Handling the cooling in a data center is a complicated task, but this is one of the core responsibilities of the facility, which they handle very well and with a fair amount of redundancy.

Data centers can vary in terms of how they connect to the internet. This center allows for multiple providers to come into a main point of entry for the building.

Automattic brings in at least two providers to create redundancy, so every piece of equipment should be able to get power and internet from two or more sources at all times. This connectivity comes into Automattic’s equipment over fiber via overhead raceways that are separate from the power and cooling in the floor. From there it goes into two routers, each connected to all the cabinets in that row.

As mentioned earlier, this data center is shared among several tenants. This means that each one sets up their own last line of physical security. Some lease an entire data hall to themselves, or use a cage around their equipment; some take it even further by obscuring the equipment so you cannot see it, as well as extending the cage through the subfloor another three feet down so that no one could get in by crawling through that space.

Automattic’s machines took up the central portion of the data hall we were in, with some room to grow. We started this portion of the tour in the “office” that Automattic also rents to both store spare parts and equipment, as well as provide a quiet place to work. On this tour it became apparent that working in the actual server rooms is far from ideal. With all the fans and cooling, the rooms are both loud and cold, so in general you want to do as much work outside of there as possible.

What was also interesting about this space is that it showed all the generations of equipment and hard drives that have to be kept up simultaneously. It is not practical to assume that a given generation of hard drives or even connection cables will be available for more than a few years. In general, the plan is to keep all hardware using identical memory, drives, and cables, but that is not always possible. As we saw in the server racks, there is equipment still running from 2013, but these will likely have to be completely swapped in the near future.

Barry also pointed out that different drive tech is used for different types of data. Images are stored on spinning hard drives (which are the cheapest by size, but have moving parts so need more replacement), and the longer lasting solid state disk (SSD) and non-volatile memory (NVMe) technology are used for other roles like caching and databases, where speed and performance are most important.

Barry showing us all the bins of hardware they use to maintain the servers.

Barry explained that data at Automattic is stored in multiple places in the same data center, and redundantly again at several other data centers. Even with that much redundancy, a further copy is stored on an outside backup. Each one of the centers Automattic uses has a method of separation, so it is difficult for a single bug to propagate between different facilities. In the last decade, there’s only been one instance where the outside backup had to come into play, and it was for six images. Still, Barry noted that there can never be too many backups.

And with that, we concluded the tour and I would soon head off to the airport to fly home. The last question Barry asked me was if I thought this would all be around in 100 years. My answer was that something like it most certainly will, but that it would look radically different, and may be situated in parts of the world with more sustainable cooling and energy, as more of the world gets large bandwidth connections.

As I thought about the project of getting all this data to last into the deep future, I was very impressed by what Automattic has built, and believe that as long as business continues as normal, the data is incredibly safe. However, on the chance that things do change, I think developing partnerships with organizations like The Internet Archive, Permanent.org, and perhaps national libraries or large universities will be critically important to help make sure the content of the open web survives well into the future. We could also look at some of the long-term storage systems that store data without the need for power, as well as systems that cannot be changed in the future (as we wonder if AI and censorship may alter what we know to be “facts”). For this, we could look at stable optical systems like Piql, Project Silica, and Stampertech. It breaks my heart to think the world would have created all this, only for it to be lost. I think we owe it to the future to make sure as much of it as possible has a path to survive.

Our group of Automatticians enjoyed the tour—thank you Barry and Eugene!

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The foundational infrastructure for the websites you build and manage is crucial for ensuring a safe, secure, fast, and reliable environment. That’s where WP Cloud comes in.

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, built WP Cloud because we wanted a cloud platform constructed from the ground up just for WordPress. We’ve hosted millions of websites across the WordPress ecosystem and have become one of the most trusted providers in cloud services.

We’re proud of WP Cloud’s 99.999% uptime, automated burst scaling and failure detection, and failover redundancies that allow you to spend time focusing on building your business or serving your clients instead of worrying about whether a traffic spike will crash the site.

WP Cloud is also incredibly secure. With DDoS protection, malware scanning, anti-spam measures, SSL certificates, TLS traffic encryption, and real-time backups, you’ll have peace of mind from day one.

We’re confident that there’s no better cloud platform for your WordPress site(s) than WP Cloud. And we’re not the only ones to think so.

Today, WP Cloud is announcing that Bluehost—one of the largest website hosts in the world—is launching a new product built atop WP Cloud’s best-in-class infrastructure.

Bluehost Cloud includes all the technical excellence of WP Cloud, with bundled options for hosting multiple websites. Plus, as with all of the sites on WordPress.com, it comes with Jetpack’s highly acclaimed performance and security features built right in.

To kick off this partnership, we’re showcasing Bluehost Cloud on WordPress.com’s pricing page, so that you can choose the product that best fits your business needs. As fellow supporters of the WordPress ecosystem, we’re glad Bluehost has chosen WP Cloud for this powerful new offering.

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Everything You Need to Know to Prevent Online Shopping Bots

For this tutorial, we’ll be playing around with one scenario that is set to trigger on every new object in TMessageIn data structure. When choosing a platform, it’s important to consider factors such as your target audience, the features you need, and your budget. Keep in mind that some platforms, such as Facebook Messenger, require you to have a Facebook page to create a bot.

Boxes and rolling credit card numbers to circumvent after-sale audits. If you’re selling limited-inventory products, dedicate resources to review the order confirmations before shipping the products. Options range from blocking the bots completely, rate-limiting them, or redirecting them to decoy sites. Logging information about these blocked bots can also help prevent future attacks. They’ll also analyze behavioral indicators like mouse movements, frequency of requests, and time-on-page to identify suspicious traffic. For example, if a user visits several pages without moving the mouse, that’s highly suspicious.

This blog post covers everything you need to know about how to make a shopping bot. Moreover, by 2023, the chatbot ecommerce transactions are expected to reach $112 billion. Out of nowhere, customer queries start pouring in, and your support team can’t catch up. As the saying goes, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.

In addition, Chatfuel offers a variety of templates and plugins that can be used to enhance the functionality of your shopping bot. Beyond taking care of customer support, a shopping bot also means more free time for you and your team. Less time spent answering repetitive queries, more time innovating and steering your business towards exciting new horizons.

The Bot Shop’s USP is its reach of over 300 million registered users and 15 million active monthly users. Shopping bots cut through any unnecessary processes while shopping online and enable people to enjoy their shopping journey while picking out what they like. A retail bot can be vital to a more extensive self-service system on e-commerce sites.

They must be available where the user selects to have the interaction. Customers can interact with the same bot on Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Slack, Skype, or WhatsApp. Appy Pie Chatbot provides a free and dedicated shopping item ordering bot template that you can use to create your shopping item ordering bot without any coding.

You can leverage it to reconnect with previous customers, retarget abandoned carts, among other e-commerce user cases. This list contains a mix of e-commerce solutions and a few consumer shopping bots. If you’re looking to increase sales, offer 24/7 support, etc., you’ll find a selection of 20 tools. Currently, conversational AI bots are the most exciting innovations in customer experience.

To handle the quantum of orders, it has built a Facebook chatbot which makes the ordering process faster. So, you can order a Domino pizza through Facebook Messenger, and just by texting. In this blog, we will explore the shopping bot in detail, understand its importance, and benefits; see some examples, and learn how to create one for https://chat.openai.com/ your business. The cost of owning a shopping bot can vary greatly depending on the complexity of the bot and the specific features and services you require. Ongoing maintenance and development costs should also be factored in, as bots require regular updates and improvements to keep up with changing user needs and market trends.

Amazon made an AI bot to talk you through buying more stuff on Amazon – The Verge

Amazon made an AI bot to talk you through buying more stuff on Amazon.

Posted: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 08:00:00 GMT [source]

Shopping bots are virtual assistants on a company’s website that help shoppers during their buyer’s journey and checkout process. Some of the main benefits include quick search, fast replies, personalized recommendations, and a boost in visitors’ experience. Sephora’s shopping bot app is the closest thing to the real shopping assistant one can get nowadays.

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In addition, it would have guided prompts within the bot script to increase its usability and data processing speed. Price comparison, a listing of products, highlighting promotional offers, and store policy information are standard functions for the average online Chatbot. Bot online ordering systems can be as simple as a Chatbot that provides users with basic online ordering answers to their queries. However, these online shopping bot systems can also be as advanced as storing and utilizing customer data in their digital conversations to predict buying preferences. Shopping bots aren’t just for big brands—small businesses can also benefit from them. The bot asks customers a series of questions to determine the recipient’s interests and preferences, then recommends products based on those answers.

Simple product navigation means that customers don’t have to waste time figuring out where to find a product. They can go to the AI chatbot and specify the product’s attributes. Of course, this cuts down on the time taken to find the correct item. With fewer frustrations and a streamlined purchase journey, your store can make more sales.

You can signup here and start delighting your customers right away. Operator lets its users go through product listings and buy in a way that’s easy to digest for the user. However, in complex cases, the bot hands over the conversation to a human agent for a better resolution. Readow is an AI-driven recommendation engine that gives users choices on what to read based on their selection of a few titles. The bot analyzes reader preferences to provide objective book recommendations from a selection of a million titles. Once done, the bot will provide suitable recommendations on the type of hairstyle and color that would suit them best.

But being a beginner does not mean you cannot go straight to the point by automating your flipping process. You can foun additiona information about ai customer service and artificial intelligence and NLP. The answer on how to do that is pretty obvious – NFT bots paired with proxies. These rooms can also help websites combat bot abuse, drastically increased traffic, website crashes, and ensure that everyone has an equal chance to buy an item. With a few clicks and a pinch of creativity, you can transform your ecommerce platform into a smart-shopping haven with Botsonic.

It does come with intuitive features, including the ability to automate customer conversations. The bot works across 15 different channels, from Facebook to email. You can create user journeys for price inquires, account management, order status inquires, or promotional pop-up messages. Yellow.ai, formerly Yellow Messenger, is a fully-fledged conversation CX platform.

A bot also helps users have a more straightforward online shopping process by reducing the query time and personalizing customers’ online ordering experience. Founded in 2017, Tars is a platform that allows users to create chatbots for websites without any coding. With Tars, users can create a shopping bot that can help customers find products, make purchases, and receive personalized recommendations. Founded in 2015, ManyChat is a platform that allows users to create chatbots for Facebook Messenger without any coding.

The digital assistant also recommends products and services based on the user profile or previous purchases. Shopping bots can be created with the advanced features and tools that help you find the products you want quickly, saving your customers both time and effort. They go where regular search engines can’t to give you all of the choices available and allow your customers to easily compare prices across retailers. They can also help you compare prices, find product information like user reviews, and more. And when used at checkout, they often pull up additional coupon codes that can be applied to your cart. Frequently asked questions such as delivery times, opening hours, and other frequent customer queries should be programmed into the shopping Chatbot.

By the time the retailer closed the loophole that gave the bad actors access, people had picked up their PS5s—all before the general public even knew about the new stock. Concerning e-commerce, WeChat enables accessible merchant-to-customer communication while shoppers browse the merchant’s products. Outside of a general on-site bot assistant, businesses aren’t using them to their full potential. Troubleshoot your sales funnel to see where your bottlenecks lie and whether a shopping bot will help remedy it. Just because eBay failed with theirs doesn’t mean it’s not a suitable shopping bot for your business.

You may have a filter feature on your site, but if users are on a mobile or your website layout isn’t the best, they may miss it altogether or find it too cumbersome to use. Shopping bots have many positive aspects, but they can Chat PG also be a nuisance if used in the wrong way. If you don’t accept PayPal as a payment option, they will buy the product elsewhere. They had a 5-7-day delivery window, and “We’ll get back to you within 48 hours” was the standard.

It can go a long way in bolstering consumer confidence that you’re truly trying to keep releases fair. Ticketmaster, for instance, reports blocking over 13 billion bots with the help of Queue-it’s virtual waiting room. Once scripts are made, they aren’t always updated with the latest browser version. Human users, on the other hand, are constantly prompted by their computers and phones to update to the latest version. It’s highly unlikely a real shopper is using a 3-year-old browser version, for instance.

A skilled Chatbot builder requires the necessary skills to design advanced checkout features in the shopping bot. These shopping bot business features make online ordering much easier for users. Online checkout bot features include multiple payment options, shorter query time for users, and error-free item ordering. This bot for buying online helps businesses automate their services and create a personalized experience for customers. The system uses AI technology and handles questions it has been trained on. On top of that, it can recognize when queries are related to the topics that the bot’s been trained on, even if they’re not the same questions.

But there are other nefarious bots, too, such as bots that scrape pricing and inventory data, bots that create fake accounts, and bots that test out stolen login credentials. What business risks do they actually pose, if they still result in products selling out? In reality, shopping bots are software that makes shopping almost as easy as click and collect. It is highly effective even if this is a little less exciting than a humanoid robot. Provide them with the right information at the right time without being too aggressive.

Everyone wants to save time and money, but we also want shopping to be quick, convenient, and simple. Here’s your shopping bot for ecommerce, ready to take your customer interaction to a whole new level. Botsonic now gives you a shopping bot widget tailored to your brand and ready to chat and interact with your customers.

Decide on the look and feel of the bot

A business can integrate shopping bots into websites, mobile apps, or messaging platforms to engage users, interact with them, and assist them with shopping. These bots use natural language processing (NLP) and can understand user queries or commands. Thanks to online shopping bots, the way you shop is truly revolutionized. Today, you can have an AI-powered personal assistant at your fingertips to navigate through the tons of options at an ecommerce store.

Bad actors don’t have bots stop at putting products in online shopping carts. Cashing out bots then buy the products reserved by scalping or denial of inventory bots. Online shopping bots work by using software to execute automated tasks based on instructions bot makers provide. And it gets more difficult every day for real customers to buy hyped products directly from online retailers. LiveChatAI, the AI bot, empowers e-commerce businesses to enhance customer engagement as it can mimic a personalized shopping assistant utilizing the power of ChatGPT. A shopping bot or robot is software that functions as a price comparison tool.

It may seem innocent enough, but when added together with other nefarious bot types it adds up to an unfair advantage over others. For example, imagine that shoppers want to see a re-stock of collectible toys as soon as they become available. One option would be to sit at their computer, manually refresh their browser, and stare at their screen 24/7 until that re-stock happens. Needless to say, this wouldn’t be fun, and would be impossible for more than a day or two. In 2022, a top 10 footwear brand dropped an exclusive line of sneakers. An added convenience is confirmation of bookings using Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp,  with SnapTravel even providing VIP support packages and round-the-clock support.

Who has the time to spend hours browsing multiple websites to find the best deal on a product they want? These bots can do the work for you, searching multiple websites to find the best deal on a product you want, and saving you valuable time in the process. A virtual waiting room is a page where customers and bots are redirected when there’s an unusual spike of traffic on a website.

So, if you want to level up your customer service game or want to meet your client’s needs in real-time with precision – a shopping bot is what you need. Some shopping bots will get through even the best bot mitigation strategy. But just because the bot made a purchase doesn’t mean the battle is lost. By managing your traffic, you’ll get full visibility with server-side analytics that helps you detect and act on suspicious traffic. For example, the virtual waiting room can flag aggressive IP addresses trying to take multiple spots in line, or traffic coming from data centers known to be bot havens.

According to the company, these bots “broke in the back door…and circumstances spun way, way out of control in the span of just two short minutes. As streetwear and sneaker interest exploded, sneaker bots became the first major retail bots. Unfortunately, they’ve only grown more sophisticated with each year. When that happens, the software code could instruct the bot to notify a certain email address. The shopper would have to specify the web page URL and the email address, and the bot will vigilantly check the web page on their behalf.

Outside of a general on-site bot assistant, businesses aren’t using them to their full potential.

Once you let it know what is needed, the shopping bot will waste no time and scour the internet for the best match.

If you are building the bot to drive sales, you just install the bot on your site using an ecommerce platform, like Shopify or WordPress.

Ada makes brands continuously available and responsive to customer interactions. Its automated AI solutions allow customers to self-serve at any stage of their buyer’s journey. The no-code platform will enable brands to build meaningful brand interactions in any language and channel.

It can handle common e-commerce inquiries such as order status or pricing. Shopping bot providers commonly state that their tools can automate 70-80% of customer support requests. They can cut down on the number of live agents while offering support 24/7. Chatbot guides and prompts are important as they tell online ordering users how best to interact with the bot, to enhance their shopping experience. A Chatbot may direct users to provide important metadata to the online ordering bot. This information may include name, address, contact information, and specify the nature of the request.

That’s why just 15% of companies report their anti-bot solution retained efficacy a year after its initial deployment. Bots will even take a website offline on purpose, just to create chaos so they can slip through undetected when the website comes back online. Data from Akamai found one botnet sent more than 473 million requests to visit a website during a single sneaker release. Bots can skew your data on several fronts, clouding up the reporting you need to make informed business decisions.

Its bot guides customers through outfits and takes them through store areas that align with their purchase interests. The bot not only suggests outfits but also the total price for all times. Today, you even don’t need programming knowledge to build a bot for your business. More so, there are platforms to suit your needs and you can also benefit from visual builders.

When the bot is built, you need to consider integrating it with the choice of channels and tools. This integration will entirely be your decision, based on the business goals and objectives you want to achieve. You can select any of the available templates, change the theme, and make it the right fit for your business needs. Thanks to the templates, you can build the bot from the start and add various elements be it triggers, actions, or conditions. Once you’re confident that your bot is working correctly, it’s time to deploy it to your chosen platform.

All you need to do is get a platform that suits your needs and use the visual builders to set up the automation. Yotpo gives your brand the ability to offer superior SMS experiences targeting mobile shoppers. You can start sending out personalized messages to foster loyalty and engagements.

Latercase, the maker of slim phone cases, looked for a self-service platform that offered flexibility and customization, allowing it to build its own solutions. Shopping bots enable brands to drive a wide range of valuable use cases. Customer representatives may become too busy to handle all customer inquiries on time reasonably. They may be dealing with repetitive requests that could be easily automated. Say No to customer waiting times, achieve 10X faster resolutions, and ensure maximum satisfaction for your valuable customers with REVE Chat.

An online ordering bot can be programmed to provide preset options such as price comparison tools and wish lists in item ordering. These options can be further filtered by department, type of action, product query, or particular service information that users require may require during online shopping. The Chatbot builder can design the Chatbot AI to redirect users with a predictive bot online database what is a shopping bot or to a live customer service representative. A shopping bot provides users with many different functions, and there are many different types of online ordering bots. A Chatbot is an automated computer program designed to provide customer support by answering customer queries and communicating with them in real-time. Broadleys is a top menswear and womenswear designer clothing store in the UK.

EBay’s idea with ShopBot was to change the way users searched for products. Their shopping bot has put me off using the business, and others will feel the same. Thanks to messaging apps, humans are becoming used to text chat as their main form of communication. A leading tyre manufacturer, CEAT, sought to enhance customer experience with instant support. It also aimed to collect high-quality leads and leverage AI-powered conversations to improve conversions. You can also collect feedback from your customers by letting them rate their experience and share their opinions with your team.

Limited-edition product drops involve the perfect recipe of high demand and low supply for bots and resellers. When a brand generates hype for a product drop and gets their customers excited about it, resellers take notice, and ready their bots to exploit the situation for profit. At Kommunicate, we are envisioning a world-beating customer support solution to empower the new era of customer support. We would love to have you on board to have a first-hand experience of Kommunicate.

HTTP/3 is the third major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol used to exchange information on the web. It is built on top of a new protocol called QUIC, which is set to fix some limitations of the previous protocol versions. Without getting into technical details—though feel free to do so in the comments if you have questions—our users should see performance improvements across all metrics:

Reduced latency. Due to faster connection establishment (i.e. fewer round-trips), latency from connection setup is lower.

Multiplexing. That is, using a single connection for multiple resources. While this feature is present in HTTP/2, HTTP/3 has improved on it and fixed a problem called “head of line blocking.” This is a deficiency of the underlying protocol HTTP/2 was built on top, which requires packets to be in order before relaying them for processing.

Reliability. Designed to perform better in varying network environments, HTTP/3 uses modern algorithms to help it recover faster from lost data and busy networks.

Improved security. QUIC uses the latest cryptography protocols (TLSv1.3) to encrypt and secure data. More of the data is encrypted, which makes it harder for an attacker to tamper with or listen in on web requests.

Ultimately, HTTP/3 (on top of QUIC) has been designed to be updated in software, which allows for quicker improvements that don’t depend on underlying network infrastructure.

After about a month of preparing our infrastructure—including fixing bugs and upgrading our CDN—HTTP/3 was enabled for all of Automattic’s services on December 27th, 2023. It currently serves between ~25-35% of all traffic.

And now for some stats. For each of these, we want numbers to be lower after the switch, which ultimately means faster speeds across the board for our customers. Let’s look at three metrics in particular:

Time to First Byte (TTFB) measures the time between the request for a resource and when the first byte of a response arrives.

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) represents how quickly the main content of a web page is loaded.

Last Resource End (LRE) measures the time between the request for a resource and when the whole response has arrived.

Results for fast connections—low latency and high bandwidth

Improvements look pretty good for fast connections:

TTFB: 7.3%

LCP: 20.9%

LRE: 24.4%

Results for slow connections—high latency or low bandwidth

For slow connections, the results are even better:

TTFB: 27.4%

LCP: 32.5%

LRE: 35%

We are dedicated to providing our customer’s websites with the best possible performance. Enabling HTTP/3 is a step in that direction. See you on the QUIC side!

Automattic’s mission is to democratize publishing. To accomplish that, we’re hiring systems engineers to join the best infrastructure team on the planet. Learn more here.

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The People Have Spoken (About Our Free Domain Transfers)

Word is getting out that WordPress.com is more than just websites and hosting. Bring your domains over today!

Jeremy Anderberg

Since launching our domain transfer offer to Google Domains customers just over two weeks ago, we’ve been overwhelmed and heartened by the response of those who’ve made the switch.

If you haven’t heard about this incredible deal and are one of the millions of folks looking for a Google Domains alternative, here’s why you should make the switch to WordPress.com ASAP:

We’re paying transfer fees for the first million domains that move from Google to WordPress.com

In addition to that transfer fee is an additional year of domain registration

Free privacy protection — your contact information will stay private

You’ll get a free SSL certificate if and when you choose to host your website with us

We’re matching (or beating) all of Google’s prices for the long haul

No website or hosting plan needed, ever, to keep your domains on WordPress.com

Don’t take our word for it, though. Here’s what folks are saying:

To be clear, there’s no catch! WordPress.com has been a domain registrar for over a decade.

(By the way, we’ve made a bunch of improvements to the Reader in the last handful of months. Check it out!)

It’s not just customers who are taking notice. The domains industry is weighing in too. DomainInvesting.com noted:

“I would imagine there are many Google Domains customers who use WordPress for their website, so this offer makes sense.”

WPTavern, an outlet that covers WordPress news, commented:

“WordPress.com is putting the heat on with a new offer to pay transfer fees and an additional year of registration for the first million domains moved from Google Domains. WordPress.com is also guaranteeing Google Domains customers the same pricing or lower for 400+ top-level domains.”

Are WordPress.com Domain Registrations Cheap?

Yes, registering a domain with WordPress.com is very low priced, matching the low prices that Google Domains charges.

GoDaddy charges $21.99 per year for registering a dot com domain.

WordPress.com only charges $12 per year for the same dot com domain.

If you’re a Google Domains customer, be sure to move to WordPress.com today to take advantage of this incredible deal. If you’re not a Google Domains customer, we hope you’ll consider WordPress.com for your domain(s) management. You won’t find better long-term prices or support anywhere.

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Hope I picked up all the perks. As I expected, the process hasn’t been as easy as just using WP; but, all my links appear to have transferred OK. A plus.

We’ll see how it goes.

It’s pure nonsense. I tried to follow your instructions. The Google desktop looks like nothing described. After a couple of tries I gave up. I don’t need WordPress induced stress.

Hi there, if you are having trouble with your transfer we’re happy to take a closer look. Please reach us here so we can investigate. Thanks! https://wordpress.com/help/

I still encourage you to make WordPress.com a place for amateurs and hobbyists who need a place that will support them to express themselves and make it easy to share their content.

I appreciate it that WordPress has maintained a nice level of dignity in its presentation over the decades. As a classical poet I appreciate not having to deal with all the bells and whistles which detract from the message on some of the other public platforms. I’ve racked up a million views over all the WP sites I’ve guested or guest edited on, and I’m still a grateful fan! Keep up the good work 👏👏👏

I’d just like to know how I can get Jetpack to go onto my WordPress account on my ipad. It went on to my phone but I can’t get it to stick to my iPAD. Can someone explain in simple language because I am an old man with limited tech savvy.

We are not able to investigate this issue here in our comments section, but you can contact app support directly by tapping your profile, then the “Help & Support” option. This will let you contact our app support team directly. Since you are not able to get the app working on your ipad, you can contact via the app on your phone instead. Thanks!

Thank you Jerry.

I am transferring what I can, but you guys don’t handle ‘premium domains’ nor domains registered <60 days ago unfortunately…

Hi there, per industry-wide domain regulations it must be at least 60 days since the domain was registered or last transferred before you can transfer it an any domains provider. So this is not a block on transfers that is specific to WordPress.com, and sadly it is not something we can get around even in special instances such as this. Thank you for your understanding!

Thank u wordpress

You guys are simply awesome! Well done.

This is wonderful

Hi I need to connect my http://www.heavenslightbakeryandcafeinc.com domain name from Wix to WordPress and all data, my Wix subscription ending soon. How do I do this? Can you call

We are not able to assist you here in the blog post comments, but please contact us here and we are happy to take a closer look at your situation and advise you on your migration. Thanks!

Great…I need more of this

Good

A domain is your most valuable online asset. A great domain name says something about you—your personality, your work, your creative spark. People understand this intuitively: when coming up with new ideas for a business or website, we don’t start with design or specific content. We start by giving it a name.

But if your domain name is currently with Google Domains, things recently became complicated. You may have heard that your account has been sold to Squarespace. Everything is expected to transfer and close later this year.

Fortunately for you, you’re not locked into that deal. And we think we can do better. For the first million domains that move from Google to WordPress.com, we’ll pay your transfer fee, which also extends your registration for an additional year.

That’s just the beginning. Here’s our commitment to you when you bring your domain from Google to WordPress.com:

Your renewal price will be the same or even lower than what you were paying with Google Domains—and that goes for every one of the 400+ top-level domains (TLDs) we offer. This will also apply to existing WordPress.com customers across most domains, meaning that in many cases we’re lowering your prices!

This isn’t a temporary thing. We’re committed to keeping domain prices low, and will only raise them if our wholesale costs go up (we’ll run our domains business like Costco).

You may know WordPress.com as a leading platform for building stunning websites, but we’ve been a domain name provider for over a decade. You don’t even need a site or hosting plan to manage your domains with us.

And you’re getting much more than just a URL:

Performance: Our DNS speeds are faster than Google, GoDaddy, and DigitalOcean. But don’t take our word for it. Feel free to check for yourself at dnsperf.com.

Security: We install SSL for free for all sites hosted with us. And when you host your site at WordPress.com, we provide serious security features to keep your site running smoothly such as real-time backups, one-click restores, malware scanning, WAF (web application firewall), DDOS mitigation, and more.

What it really comes down to is that WordPress.com, along with the larger Automattic family, is committed to the open and inclusive web. Our mission is to democratize publishing for the entire world. Ultimately, we will always support your ability to truly own your content and identity on the web.

And it all starts with your domain.

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