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With our partners, we’re bringing you new events and special programming like WP Career Summit. Some of the speakers who will be joining us at the Summit have been talking with David Bisset on The Excerpt — like Lance Robbins this week.

Post Status Notes #490

Newfold acquires YITH, Hostopia. Wordfence stops FastOrSlow.com. DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks. Tips and tricks for WordPress devs.

The Misanthropic Dev: A Tonic for Toxic Positivity

The Misanthropic Developer says you should toot your own horn. Have you found greater benefits or costs in being assertive in your workplace?

Would WordPress benefit from public relations messaging around security issues?

Should we spin up the bright side of WordPress security issues? Would it make a difference that matters to market share, brand reputation, etc.?

WooCommerce Function of the Week: wc_get_customer_last_order

This week we’ll take a look at WooCommerce orders and a neat WooCommerce core function called wc_get_customer_last_order.

Nothing mysterious here — pass a customer ID, and with a PHP one-liner, you get immediately the customer’s latest order!

This can be used in several scenarios. Think for example of an email campaign that triggers six months after the customer’s last order to entice them to reorder. (In marketing, you’d call it a “Win-Back” campaign.)

But before looking at some case studies, let’s analyze the function syntax and source code.

Newfold acquires YITH. The latest WooCommerce release notes. Inside Woo Support. $1.7 Trillion spent by US shoppers online during the pandemic.

WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of March 14

This week I’ve been listening to Robbie Adair and Courtney Robertson on Do the Woo, Joe Casabona’s take on Patchstack’s WordPress security report, and Mayank Gupta’s guidelines for growth. And Scott Moore has a great video on the new Performance feature plugin.

This Week at WordPress.org (March 14, 2022)

Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don’t want to … Read more

Post Status Excerpt (No. 50) — The Future of Hiring is Marketing with Lance Robbins

What if open source values and ways of thinking point to solutions WordPress businesses can uniquely embrace?

Post Status Notes #489

An App Store for WordPress.com? Performance Team Gathers Steam. WP Notify. FSE Beta. Block is Beautiful. Security, Plugin, Dev, Acquisitions.

WooCommerce Releases and a Chat with Mitch Callahan of Saucal — The Woo Snippet (March 7)

It’s the WooSnippet — fresh for the week of March 7, 2022. Get the lowdown on what’s new in the world of WooCommerce with Bob Dunn.

Common Things Unite Us

This week I’ve been reflecting on the things that unite us as a community, as people, as family, and as friends. I think it comes down to common interests and the common good.

WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of March 7

Green Field Under White and Blue Clouds during Daytime

Matt shares brief thoughts on Ukraine. Learn how to understand your customers through their problems. How to build trust quickly. And more!

Help the Helpers

Motherland Monument among green trees on embankment in Kiev

Do you want to help but aren’t sure how — or who to trust? Here are some non-profit organizations and charitable foundations with a history of success and transparent reporting, according to Ukrainian sources.

WooCommerce Function of the Week: wc_get_held_stock_quantity

A getting stock from a shelf in a warehouse.

Welcome back to WooCommerce Function of the Week! This week we cover a little hidden gem within the WooCommerce plugin code: wc_get_held_stock_quantity(). As the name suggests, this function helps you get the amount of stock present in pending orders for a given product.

If your store relies on careful stock management — maybe because you handle products with a small inventory — wc_get_held_stock_quantity is very useful. As orders come in for a limited number of products, you can take special action. Maybe you need to cancel those orders, or maybe you want to entice the customers placing them to complete their purchases before the item goes out of stock.

So, as usual, let’s first take a look at the function syntax and then consider a practical example of how you might use or display the returned value. Enjoy!

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The Misanthropic Dev: A Tonic for Toxic Positivity

Would WordPress benefit from public relations messaging around security issues?

WooCommerce Function of the Week: wc_get_customer_last_order

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WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of March 14

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Common Things Unite Us

WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of March 7

Help the Helpers

WooCommerce Function of the Week: wc_get_held_stock_quantity

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