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Your checkout page doesn't have to be a single fixed block anymore. Easy Digital Downloads just shipped new inner blocks for checkout: cart, personal info, payment details, and the discount form are now independent pieces you can rearrange, restyle, and control right in the WordPress block editor. Five ready-made layouts to start from. No page builder required. Free in both Lite and Pro. Update Easy Digital Downloads and open your checkout page in the block editor to try it. #EasyDigitalDownloads #WordPress

A high-converting checkout design is critical for turning visitors into customers. To make that easier, Easy Digital Downloads just launched a growing library of distraction free, conversion-focused Elementor checkout templates, made specifically for selling digital products and services. Import one onto the checkout page you already have, replace the placeholder wording with your own, and you're live in minutes. What that means for your store: • Modern designs with trust elements already in place • A polished checkout page in minutes, with no designer and no code • Over 100 native Elementor and EDD-specific controls Browse and preview the templates or import one today. Check out the full details in our announcement post: https://lnkd.in/gfnnWnyE #WordPress #Ecommerce

AI tools like ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews are increasingly answering shopping questions directly, without ever sending the shopper to a results page. That's a real problem if your product pages aren't structured for AI to understand and cite them. We put together a guide on generative engine optimization (GEO) for ecommerce: what it actually means, how it's different from SEO, and why digital product sellers need a different approach than physical retailers shipping inventory. You don't need enterprise tooling to start. Clear product descriptions, basic schema markup, and genuine reviews go a long way, even for a solo creator running one store. Read the full breakdown: https://lnkd.in/gbBuDB6J

Envato recently moved to a flat 50% commission, cutting into what many sellers were previously keeping. They gave notice, but sellers had no say in the decision. We wrote the guide for sellers who are ready to stop letting a platform decide what they keep: https://lnkd.in/eu9NgivR

If your online store sells to customers in the European Union, you may already know about the EU's right of withdrawal requirement. Some users asked about a way to handle it inside Easy Digital Downloads, and that's exactly what this is. Our new Right of Withdrawal feature adds a compliant, two-step withdrawal form directly to your EDD store. Customers submit their declaration, you get notified, and you review and manage every request from your WordPress dashboard. It's available now and free for all Easy Digital Downloads users. Get it here: https://lnkd.in/evzz2RYu

Many digital product sellers start with the minimum viable setup. At some point, that setup becomes the ceiling. Subscription billing, abandoned cart recovery, content restriction, software licensing, post-purchase funnels. These aren't features reserved for large stores. They're the infrastructure that helps stores grow past that ceiling. This week, Easy Digital Downloads Pro passes are up to 65% off. If you've been building toward a more complete store, this week is a good window to get there. https://lnkd.in/gA49NZ-2

EDD Reviews are already a powerful trust signal. But until now, they lived separately from the reviews you've collected on Google, Trustpilot, and Facebook. Smash Balloon LLC's Reviews Feed Pro now supports Easy Digital Downloads as a native review source. Pull from EDD alongside your other review platforms, filter by specific downloads, categories, or tags, and display everything in one fully customizable feed that fits your brand. Your full review history imports automatically. New reviews are added as customers submit them. No third-party authentication, no API fees, no manual refresh. If you're already collecting reviews across multiple platforms, this is the easiest way to bring them all together in one place.

Traffic from AI sources like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overview to ecommerce sites grew 393% year over year in Q1 2026. That number is going to keep climbing. When a potential customer asks an AI assistant which software, template, or course to buy, the answer comes from product pages the AI can actually read and summarize. Clear titles, structured content, and a well-built product page matter more than ever. This is one of the underappreciated advantages of owning your own store. A marketplace listing gives you a row in a table. Your own product page gives AI a full, structured surface to work with. We put together a full guide on how to get your digital products found in AI search. Worth a read if you want to stay ahead of this. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eRsrEghE

If you've built a WordPress plugin, you're already sitting on a monetizable asset. Most developers don't realize how much they leave on the table by listing on a marketplace instead of selling direct. Marketplaces take a cut of every sale. They control how you present your product, what pricing models are available, and who owns the customer relationship. Selling from your own site flips all of that. Our latest guide walks through how to sell your plugin independently: setting up license key delivery, choosing between one-time, freemium, and subscription pricing, and building the documentation that turns skeptical developers into buyers. If you've been sitting on a plugin you haven't monetized, this is worth your time.

Envato just updated their revenue share terms. After next month, all authors will keep just 50% of the item price. That's a cut for non-exclusive authors who currently earn 55%. That's half of every sale going to a marketplace you don't own or control. Easy Digital Downloads gives creators and digital sellers a different path: sell directly from your own WordPress site with no platform fees, no commission, and no one else's rules. You set the price. You own the customer relationship. You keep the revenue. If you've been looking for a reason to build your own store, this is it. Make the switch → https://lnkd.in/ePHJNH-E