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Barn2 Releases WooCommerce Product Filters

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Dan Knauss
Although there have been some recent enhancements in WooCommerce in this area, product filters have not been a strong feature. If you've struggled with that missing feature, you'll be glad to know Barn2 Plugins has rolled out WooCommerce Product Filters.…

SVG and WebP…finally

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Dan Knauss
I'm looking forward to lots of good things coming in the future on the new WordPress core Performance Team blog, and I'm glad SVG and WebP are finally going to be usable in WordPress by default. (This is already the…

How Green is WebP, really?

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Dan Knauss
WebP is pretty green! In most cases, it will really save on bandwidth, but when it's using lossless compression, it's often not the most efficient in terms of power consumption. Here are some interesting tests Olivier Philippot of Greenspector ran…

Barriers to Contributing

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Dan Knauss
Small teams face frustrating barriers trying to make their contributions count TL;DR: Small teams have common barriers to contributing to Five for the Future. Making efficient use of their time and team members is hard when tooling and communication can…

Shiny New Thing: OrganizeWP

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Dan Knauss
Check out Jon Christopher's OrganizeWP which is still in Beta but won't be for long. Clean out your Admin interface and make it work for you! The Admin Menu has become a battleground for attention, especially with content types. OrganizeWP…

Legal Stuff: What All Online Course Creators Need to Know

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Dan Knauss
I haven't seen anything from Richard Best in a while, but he recently shared "17 practical legal steps to help you create great course content, protect yourself, and keep your money." One of the 17 is "Know how to find…

Omnichannel or Multichannel?

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Dan Knauss
Here's a detailed post from Bradley Taylor for GoDaddy's WooCommerce Wednesdays — all about multichannel selling. I was curious to see why that's being billed as the future of e-commerce. I've read more about "omnichannel" as the buzzword of the…

Partnerships in WordPress and WooCommerce

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Dan Knauss
Bob Dunn breaks down the main types of partnerships he sees working (in different contexts) in the Woo/WP space: Affiliates and income-generating partnershipsThe Real Business PartnershipThe Sponsorship PartnershipThe Soft Partnership Read/listen to the whole thing for good insights and advice…

Roll Your Own Fonts

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Dan Knauss
I'm not sorry to see Google Fonts and other sources of fine typography being dropped as remote sources for WordPress themes. Given the relative ease of modifying existing open source typefaces and creating new ones, I wonder why we don't…

How to Create a Basic Child Theme for Block Themes

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Dan Knauss
Here's a nice tutorial at learn.wordpress.org for learning how to get started with child block theme development and a good model for tutorials you can contribute! If you have any questions about being a tutorial presenter please join the #training…

Nulled Themes and Plugins

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Dan Knauss
My first experiences with "nulled" (or back in the day "cracked") software date back to the golden days of the Atari 8-bit and Commodore Amiga. Blank floppy disks were cheap, and like most kids, I did not have a lot…
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