WooCommerce

WooCommerce ending renewal discounts is a good thing

Brian Krogsgard

June 22, 2017

WooCommerce has — at least for now — 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…

In addition to the WooCommerce third…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

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…

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…

Publish tickets, initial speakers, sponsors

Brian Krogsgard

May 12, 2017

BusinessHosting

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…

Business in a Box is a…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

BusinessHosting

Business in a Box is a new small business eCommerce toolset from Paypal, and they have partnered with WooCommerce and Xero to provide a bundle to those looking to setup eCommerce sites. Michael Steele goes into more detail about it,…

WooCommerce 3.0 has been on the…

Brian Krogsgard

April 25, 2017

WooCommerce 3.0 has been on the scene for a short time, and Codeable has a nice guide to successfully upgrading to it. Spyros Vlachopoulos covers a variety of the new features, including the CRUD commands and WP-CLI, but more importantly,…

Breaking into and building community, with WordPress and beyond — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

April 24, 2017

BusinessDraft

In this episode, Brian is joined by Matt Medeiros, a veteran of building communities in the WordPress Space. They talk about the challenges and rewards of diving into a new community.

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…

The WooCommerce team has recently developed…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

The WooCommerce team has recently developed an end to end testing suite. How it works is particularly interesting - it uses ChromeDriver, which simulates a real user by moving the mouse around, clicking on things, and filling out forms. The…

If you’re a BuddyPress user, make…

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

Security

If you're a BuddyPress user, make sure you upgrade to the latest security release, which fixes a few cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issues. You might also want to check out the updated version of the WooCommerce BuddyPress Integration plugin from…

Why semantic versioning is good for complex plugins, and not WordPress core

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

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…

Making a living without client work, with Carrie Dils — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

March 6, 2017

BusinessDraft

In this episode, Brian interviews Carrie Dils -- a self-employed entrepreneur -- about using multiple channels to make a full time living, and giving up client work.

Beaver Themer lets you build Beaver Builder layouts for full templates

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2017

Beaver Themer is the newest product by Beaver Builder, and is now in an alpha testing phase. The new product allows you to use a lot of the features many of you know from Beaver Builder, except it allows you…

Love the style of the MailChimp’s…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Love the style of the MailChimp's 2016 Annual report. Also 246,148,661,219 emails sent in a year is definitely an impressive number. Speaking of annual reports, I enjoyed reading SkyVerge's 2016 Year In Review. The majority of SkyVerge's work is with…

Mike Jolley at WooCommerce shares some…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

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.