Apparently unaffected by downward trends elsewhere, GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) posted some bullish numbers for their second quarter with revenue up 9% year-over-year, and net Income up 93% year-over-year. See the presentation slides and other prepared remarks from CEO Aman Bhutani and CFO Mark McCaffrey for more details. Some of the business highlights touching WooCommerce…
Dave Rodenbaugh talks about setting expectations for support in the WordPress repository where users can download plugins for free.
The first-ever core preview walkthru with contribs for WP 6.0. Lots of Gutenberg news, big WordCamp comebacks, and other cool things!
When ā and what ā should you outsource to SaaS and open source? Learn this an more from Dave Rodenbaugh, founder of Recapture.io.
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Igor Benic offers some great tips for getting better as a WordPress developer. Excellent points about code reviews and just reading the available handbooks. Taking time to learn from others and building extensions for existing plugins are good ideas too. šÆ If you want to learn how a plugin has fared over time, take a…
A rising tide lifts all hosts š„ļø More WordPress news on the hosting and eCommerce front: GoDaddy has launched new WooCommerce extensions, which according to the press release are from GoDaddy’s recent acquisition of SkyVerge. These extensions “increase the value of GoDaddy’s WooCommerce plugins from $3,000 to nearly $6,000 worth of premium extensions.” Chris Lema,…
The team at SkyVerge is joining GoDaddy in a full company acquisition. All SkyVerge extensions and Jilt will go under the GoDaddy umbrella. In the announcement from SkyVerge, they gave a hint as to what is next: “While weāll be building something new at GoDaddy, everything weāve already built is a big part of that.”…
Matt Shaw shows how to set up Visual Studio Code and xDebug for WordPress development in a recently updated post. šØāš» Matt also touches on important extensions such as Git Lens (which adds simple git blame annotations to the line that youāre currently working on), PHP DocBlocker for simple docblocking, and the Prettier extension for…
Shopify has a lot going for it. WooCommerce, though, is the better platform for ecommerce on the Open Web.
Video and Podcast Picks of the Week š¹ Here’s my recommendation for video watching this week: Alex Young has a great tutorial that will get you up and running with Gutenberg Blocks using the new Advanced Custom Fields plugin update (5.8). šļø Here are the podcasts I’ve been listening to lately: Joe Howard, via Matt…
Automattic has acquired Prospress, the makers of WooCommerce Subscriptions — WooCommerce’s highest revenue-generating extension — for an undisclosed sum.
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…
Josh PollockĀ has announcedĀ Caldera Forms now has a SaaS version. It’s designed to provide “more reliable emails, better looking emails, email stats, form to PDF,” and more. Check out hisĀ comparisonĀ of the free and paid versions. Paid and free extensions are still part of Caldera Forms, but I assume the SaaS option is a test of future…
WooCommerce has ā at least for now ā decided to end renewal discounts for extension sales. This is a smart business move and the right thing to do, even if it could’ve been rolled out better. Matt Mullenweg said in Post Status Slack that it’s been under testing a for a few months and “100%…
In addition to the WooCommerce third party developer rate increase, I discovered something else that isn’t particularly consequential, but is interesting nonetheless. It turns out that WooCommerce has made a slight mistake in its payouts to extension developers for a few years. We can call it an Accidental Office Space Maneuver. Here’s the bulk of…
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