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WooCommerce 4.0 was released this week with over 740 commits from 21 contributors. This includes the new version of the Admin interface, which is a “first step towards a more modern JavaScript-driven experience.” 🛍️
Note that this is a “major release” and not fully backward-compatible with previous WooCommerce versions.
Bob Dunn has a good overview of the highlights of the 4.0 release including the new Admin.
Joost de Valk has started a conversation about developers testing their work with other developers’ plugins in Post Status Slack. Joost wants to take on what he calls an “integration problem:” “Every integration with another plugin we [at Yoast] add forces us to test the basic features of that plugin, with our plugin running, to…
In the next major version of WooCommerce, the WooCommerce REST API will be taking up the infrastructure of the WordPress REST API as a base, and some changes are being made that you should be aware of if you utilize it. The old API will be available for several major releases, but I love seeing…
Shopify has updated its developer revenue share percentage There have been several announcements from Shopify lately, including a new Online Store 2.0. However, what has caught the eye of many people in the eCommerce space is the update to their developer revenue share percentage. It’s going from 20% to 0% for the first $1 million…
Over the course of several weeks, the Easy Digital Downloads team executed a series of changes to their marketplace to remove all third party plugins from their ecosystem. The move affected 55 plugins from 27 authors. Some were acquired. Some were delisted. Some were discontinued. Easy Digital Downloads also purged some of the plugins they…
It’s your weekly roundup of news briefs for busy WordPress professionals! @dimensionmedia, can you believe we’ve done almost 500 of these? -Ed.
WordPress.com VIP is working hard on launching new infrastructure that allows for a more traditional WordPress setup for VIP clients, and makes a variety of improvements that their service partners will enjoy. Called VIP Go, it’s basically a VIP 2.0. Many parts of VIP will stay the same: every commit will be code reviewed by…
