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WooCommerce has merged a revamping of…

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Brian Krogsgard

WooCommerce has merged a revamping of their product gallery into core. The feature, coming in WooCommerce 2.7, allows visitors now have access to both magnification and zooming. Also the gallery behavior is much more intuitive. This update on the site…

Kinsta has released an 18 part…

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Brian Krogsgard

Kinsta has released an 18 part series on improving WooCommerce conversion rates, if that's your sort of thing. It's a thorough guide for a store owner or consultant.

WooCommerce switches accounts to utilize WordPress.com credentials

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

WooCommerce was the fastest growing eCommerce…

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Brian Krogsgard

WooCommerce was the fastest growing eCommerce platform in 2016, with nearly 75% growth within the top one million websites. Of the thirteen platforms listed, Magento had the slowest growth. Though it is still the dominant platform for large sites, the…

If you are looking for WordPress…

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Brian Krogsgard

If you are looking for WordPress basics in video form to share with someone, there are a few really great solutions out there; WP101 is my favorite, due to the high quality, consistent updates, and ability to put them right…

Automattic has published their year in…

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Brian Krogsgard

Automattic has published their year in review, which gives a broad look at what happened with the company and the various brands in 2016. The page (which has a nice design, btw) covers Automattic's corporate growth, diversity, and other points…

Justin Shreve talks about a new…

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Brian Krogsgard

Justin Shreve talks about a new CLI for the upcoming new version of WooCommerce (version 2.7). They did this by forking Restful, which is currently maintained by Daniel Bachhuber. A list of commands and examples are found on Justin's blog…

WPEngine has announced “One-Tap Payments” for…

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Dan Knauss
WPEngine has announced "One-Tap Payments" for WordPress ecommerce sites. Their WooCommerce extension leverages the Payment Request API — which is already available in the mobile versions of Chrome for Android. There is not a huge amount of in-depth information in…

WooCommerce Subscriptions gets big upgrade

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Brian Krogsgard
WooCommerce Subscriptions 2.1 is out the door, after more than a year of development. It's a large upgrade and packs a ton of features, as highlighted on the features page. If you're interested in subscriptions for your website, or already run…

The new CRUD classes in WooCommerce…

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Brian Krogsgard

The new CRUD classes in WooCommerce will be a huge help for moving the plugin forward. In the future, Woo will deprecate existing methods for grabbing data the traditional WordPress way, in favor of very specific WooCommerce-centric functions, so that…

Publish presentation announcements

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Brian Krogsgard
I'm really excited to finally announce the Post Status Publish presenters. There are twelve awesome folks (plus me) ready to share their knowledge with you. I have already said that I wanted to make Publish feel like the hallway track,…

Chris Lema has a follow up…

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Brian Krogsgard

Chris Lema has a follow up post to his in-depth analysis last year of the top WordPress membership plugins. It's a shorter post -- this time offering up his top three recommendations -- and he compares them based on features he believes are most…

Algolia has come out with a…

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Brian Krogsgard

Algolia has come out with a new WordPress plugin that improves upon built-in search. It's a hosted service (unlike SearchWP and other plugins), so that may deter or attract you depending on your needs. The plugin promises "out of the box"…

I wish I wrote this post…

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Brian Krogsgard

I wish I wrote this post by Nick Hamze. He highlights the dangers of control, using the WooCommerce Storefront theme Powerpack addon as an example. Plugins like that exist as it is assumed that people want total control over their…

Automattic breathing new life into some decaying products

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Brian Krogsgard

WP Job Manager, Polldaddy, and Sensei are all getting renewed attention after the Automattic Grand Meetup, which happened this month in Whistler, a town north of Vancouver, Canada. Focus is hard for all companies. As a company grows, it's easy…
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