ByBrian Krogsgard
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Nick Hamze really wants to see WooCommerce and Shopify place nicely together. His experiment to better integrate them is fascinating, and he makes a compelling case for why they should be friends.
There was a lot of chatter in Post Status Slack and on Twitter this week about the way Jetpack and WooCommerce are handling tracking and also feature nags within the WordPress dashboard. Mehul Gohil tweeted a screenshot for how Jetpack is inserting a nag to use their CDN depending on the search performed by the…
Share your feedback about how to improve the Five for the Future contributor journey. Check out work underway on how to make interactive blocks easier to build, and take a walkthrough of layout classes in WordPress 6.1. It’s time to start planning; how will you celebrate WordPress’ 20th birthday?
Nuno Morgadinho is currently working on a book about WooCommerce that covers essentials and beyond like security, reliability, performance, usability, handling high traffic — and improving conversions in your webshop. Nuno is looking for “beta readers” so reach out to him if you’re interested. 📖
Tiny, the folks behind TinyMCE, has announced they acquired Setka, a no-code WYSIWYG editor. TinyMCE powers the classic editor in WordPress and many other CMSes. ⌨️ I’m not sure I will count this primarily as a “WordPress acquisition.” Setka does have a WordPress page builder plugin, but it has <700 installs and hasn’t been updated…
This is a great explainer from Cozmos Labs for setting up WooCommerce as a private/walled garden store. Why do that? I’ll tell you why! It should be a 1-click install blueprint too.
There is a new WordPress.org naming policy that prevents plugins from using the names of companies and other plugins as the first item in the name and slug. For instance, if a reader submitted, “Post Status Extender Widget” to the repo it wouldn’t be accepted but, “Extender Widget for Post Status” would. Here’s the full text…
