I’m super excited to finally be able to say that tickets for Publish 2017 are available. The event, as many of you already know, is in Atlanta, on August 3rd and 4th. That’s a Thursday and Friday. Go straight to the ticket purchase area if you want to skip the pitch. It’s being held at…
One of the most challenging components to making decisions in web development is determining when and how strongly to rely on code written by other people. Most of the code we rely on for a website was written by someone else. WordPress itself, large scale plugins, small plugins, extensions to large plugins — the average…
WooCommerce has announced that they are skipping from version 2.7 to 3.0 and transitioning to SemVer, or semantic versioning. SemVer means that each decimal of a release means something. Whereas WordPress 3.9 and 4.0 were identical in importance, but in SemVer, such a change would recognize the difference between a minor feature release and a…
Mike Jolley at WooCommerce shares some notes after his team has looked at updating some extensions for 2.7 compatibility. Notes cover updating the Product Add-ons extension, the Shipment Tracking extension, and the EU VAT extension.
I think bringing Automattic resources into core WordPress development to put a huge effort into improving the WordPress editing experience is a good thing. An email went out last week to the authors of all plugins with more than one million active installs. The emails were sent from Andy Peatling — a manager at Automattic, in charge…
Many of my peers (especially developers) have at least one browser extension installed, but as this post illustrates many are unaware of the potential dangers in the form of malware. There are limits to the damage, but there’s little protection to prevent bad things from happening. Be very selective about your extensions and remove any…
Automattic has won the rights to manage the gTLD .blog, one of the most sought after generic top level domain extensions to date. They paid “about $19M” for the privilege, according to Matt Mullenweg’s blog post (which he has since updated to link to a story that offers an indirect estimate, but his Facebook page…
Last week, Automattic introduced WooCommerce Connect, a Jetpack-esque suite of tools for WooCommerce, where modules could utilize the processing power of WordPress.com to run particular elements of eCommerce websites. WooCommerce Connect requires Jetpack, and therefore also a WordPress.com account, in order to run. Jetpack now has 35 modules, originally with the purpose of making publishing…
WooThemes is experimenting with selling themes and (more interestingly) WooCommerce extensions on MOJO Marketplace. I can’t imagine how this would do particularly well, but there’s really no downside for Woo. No third party sellers are currently in the mix, unless they are otherwise already affiliated with MOJO. WooThemes is also vowing to do better with…
Barry Kooij (pronounced “Coy”, America! I just learned it…) runs Never5, an independent plugin shop. He’s been running Never5 for a while, but went full time in July after the Woothemes acquisition to Automattic was made official. He has four plugins: Related Posts for WordPress Download Monitor WP Car Manager Post Connector I thought it’d…
Envira Gallery is quietly gaining in the image/gallery space. The latest update includes a suite of extensions that will make photographers and people building sites for photographers pretty happy.
Mike Jolley has agreed to terms to sell WP Job Manager to Automattic. Mike is already joining Automattic after the WooThemes acquisition — under his role as WooCommerce lead developer — and the sale of WP Job Manager is in part due to Automattic’s rules for employee side projects.
Matt Mullenweg announced today that Automattic has acquired WooThemes, whose flagship product is the popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. All 55 team members at WooThemes will join Automattic, swelling ranks at Automattic by around 18%.
I covered Layers, by Obox, when it launched. The page building theme showed promise, and it was a big hit during launch. It was downloaded thousands of times, due in part to a very successful run on ProductHunt. They blogged about that experience, which was interesting on its own. Today, Obox announced their monetization strategy that…
eCommerce is getting pretty darn big for WordPress. Daniel Espinoza knows eCommerce. He’s built extensions for both WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads, not to mention some non-WordPress entities. He’s working on a third-party marketplace aiming to allow anyone to sell their extensions. Right now Shop Plugins is just a landing page and email capture, but if you’re interested…
WP eCommerce is one of the oldest WordPress plugins you’ll find. That it’s an eCommerce plugin — built on WordPress, well before such a thing seemed sensible — is even more of a testament to just how impressive this plugin is. It’s been under development for eight years, and is nearing 3 million downloads on…
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