WooCommerce vs Shopify: A battle for ecommerce platform dominance
Jonathan Wold
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…
Dan Knauss
Video and Podcast Picks of the Week š¹ Here's my recommendation for video watching this week: Alex Young
Automattic has acquired Prospress, the makers of WooCommerce Subscriptions
Brian Krogsgard
Automattic has acquired Prospress, the makers of WooCommerce Subscriptions -- WooCommerce's highest revenue-generating extension -- for an undisclosed sum.
How Easy Digital Downloads acquired 55 plugins
Brian Krogsgard
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. Someā¦
Josh PollockĀ has announcedĀ Caldera Forms now has…
Brian Krogsgard
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 stillā¦
WooCommerce ending renewal discounts is a good thing
Brian Krogsgard
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 inā¦
In addition to the WooCommerce third…
Brian Krogsgard
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 aā¦
Publish tickets, initial speakers, sponsors
Brian Krogsgard
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 toā¦
Reliance on third party code
Brian Krogsgard
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 someoneā¦
Why semantic versioning is good for complex plugins, and not WordPress core
Brian Krogsgard
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 inā¦
Mike Jolley at WooCommerce shares some…
Dan Knauss
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.
Automattic, Calypso, and the WordPress project
Brian Krogsgard
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 allĀ plugins withĀ more than one million activeā¦
Many of my peers (especially developers)…
Brian Krogsgard
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 protectionā¦
Automattic has won the rights to manage .blog
Brian Krogsgard
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 sinceā¦
Thoughts on WooCommerce Connect
Brian Krogsgard
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, inā¦
WooThemes is experimenting with selling themes…
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, unlessā¦
