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Automattic has acquired Prospress, the makers of WooCommerce Subscriptions

Brian Krogsgard

May 23, 2019

Automattic has acquired Prospress, the makers of WooCommerce Subscriptions -- WooCommerce's highest revenue-generating extension -- for an undisclosed sum.

Children say his superpower is love: an interview with Topher DeRosia

Dan Knauss

February 15, 2019

HostingPlanet

Topher DeRosia took some time to reflect on HeroPress and recount his own path to WordPress, the long and winding road of freelancing, and his role as a developer evangelist for BigCommerce.

Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the future

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2018

BusinessDraft

I am joined by Matt Mullenweg to discuss decision making, Gutenberg, core WordPress processes, Automattic's business, and more.

Coinbase Commerce is an API layer…

Brian Krogsgard

April 27, 2018

Coinbase Commerce is an API layer for merchants to interact with crypto-based payments, through the most prominent cryptocurrency onboarding service, Coinbase. It makes it simple to create an interface for websites and applications to accept cryptocurrency as payment. The Coinbase…

Hosted versus self-hosted eCommerce — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

January 19, 2018

DraftHosting

In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss self-hosted vs managed ecommerce and whether or not conferences have outlived their usefulness.

Interview with Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress ecosystem — Draft Podcast

Brian Krogsgard

November 14, 2017

BusinessDesign

In this episode, I talk to Matt Mullenweg -- co-founder of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic -- about what's happening in the world of WordPress, and his role in it all.

WooCommerce is offering 20% higher rates in trade for third party developers offering all support

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

WooCommerce announced on an internal blog post they are increasing their revenue sharing with third party developers from 50% to 60%. This means third party developers will get 20% more revenue per sale than they did previously. In return, developers…

Reliance on third party code

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2017

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…

Speaking of Nick and Mika above,…

Brian Krogsgard

April 25, 2017

Speaking of Nick and Mika above, I followed along with an interesting Twitter thread of theirs today, because it turns out the official WordPress Shopify plugin is no longer in the directory. I haven't yet dug into the specifics of…

Smashing Magazine has an overview of…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2017

Smashing Magazine has an overview of eCommerce platforms, with calculated "Customer Satisfaction” ratings. WooCommerce scored a 90% (#4 on the list). Steve Benjamins writes that according to feedback its pros were customizability, and the strength of the plugin and broader…

WooCommerce switches accounts to utilize WordPress.com credentials

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2017

Security

WooCommerce has officially switched over to require WordPress.com account credentials. The announcement was made by Todd Wilkens, the new lead of WooCommerce within Automattic. Todd was formerly the head of mobile and chat products at Atlassian (HipChat, etc). This change…

If you read the Amazon post…

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2017

If you read the Amazon post and you're ready to sell on Amazon along with your own store, Shopify has a new program for selling with Amazon that looks pretty incredible. It syncs your products, and allows you to track…

Huh brings documentation to your customer’s WordPress dashboard

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2017

Huh -- like the sound -- is a new documentation plugin by Nick Hamze. It offers a little tooltip to your customer that enables easy to access documentation, right within the WordPress dashboard. Having recently gone through some install processes,…

Nick Hamze really wants to see…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2016

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.

One of Devin Price’s consulting clients…

David Bisset

August 10, 2016

One of Devin Price's consulting clients was considering the move from WordPress to Shopify, so Devin writes about his thoughts on the two platforms, offering the best and most thorough comparison I've ever read between the two. Devin's review covers…

Mark Forrester, Co-Founder of WooThemes had…

March 21, 2016

Mark Forrester, Co-Founder of WooThemes had an AMA at ManageWP. It's brief and doesn't hold any big Woo secrets, but it's interesting to note that Mark considers WordPress "12 years ahead" of Shopify (though obviously not for WooCommerce). One of my…

Automattic has acquired Prospress, the makers of WooCommerce Subscriptions

Children say his superpower is love: an interview with Topher DeRosia

Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the future

Coinbase Commerce is an API layer…

Hosted versus self-hosted eCommerce — Draft podcast

Interview with Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress ecosystem — Draft Podcast

WooCommerce is offering 20% higher rates in trade for third party developers offering all support

Reliance on third party code

Speaking of Nick and Mika above,…

Smashing Magazine has an overview of…

WooCommerce switches accounts to utilize WordPress.com credentials

If you read the Amazon post…

Huh brings documentation to your customer’s WordPress dashboard

Nick Hamze really wants to see…

One of Devin Price’s consulting clients…

Mark Forrester, Co-Founder of WooThemes had…

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