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Brewing fuss over a fork of an Elegant Themes popup plugin

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Brian Krogsgard

Folks are making a bit of a fuss about a commercial plugin -- Bloom, a lead generation and popup plugin -- getting forked and released for free. It all started with an Elegant Themes tweet: Looks like @LeadPages took our plugin, replaced…

WooCommerce 2.4 released with new onboarding wizard

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Brian Krogsgard

WooCommerce 2.4 has been released, and its signature user-facing feature is a new onboarding wizard that makes new store creation a smoother, more intuitive process. The wizard makes common settings easier to configure, enables simpler Paypal setup, and uses geolocation…

Two ways to use Amazon S3 for your WordPress media files

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Brian Krogsgard

There are two new plugins you should be excited about if you wish to put WordPress media on Amazon's S3 service. WP Offload S3 has been around for a few years, but has been completely rewritten over the last several…

Version 2 of the WordPress REST API released

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Brian Krogsgard

Version 2 of the WordPress REST API has been released on WordPress.org as a whole new plugin. The decision to do this was so that backward compatibility could be maintained on version 1 on a permanent basis. So if you…

A future API

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Ryan McCue
BusinessPlanet
Ryan McCue, the lead developer of the WordPress REST API, imagines the year 2020, when the REST API is mature and in WordPress core. He tells us stories of some of the fun things that are possible.

WooCommerce Memberships released

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Brian Krogsgard

The WooCommerce Memberships extension has been released, and was developed by the team at SkyVerge. Memberships have historically not been very easy with WooCommerce, and this will undoubtedly be a popular extension. I'm using Memberships on Post Status already to manage…

Stepping up reporting in WordPress eCommerce

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Brian Krogsgard
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If I could give this post 1,000 +1's, I would. Brianna Norcross is operations manager at Reaktiv Studios and she is super obsessive with the numbers and good reporting. In her experience, and I wholeheartedly agree, WordPress eCommerce plugin reporting…

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessPlanet
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.

WP Rollback makes changing to specific versions of plugins easy

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Brian Krogsgard

WP Rollback is a new free plugin by WordImpress that makes switching to a specific version of a plugin easy. As Matt Cromwell (of WordImpress) noted on WP Tavern, incremental updates on a complex plugin like WooCommerce could be easily…

Mega marketing of hosted website solutions

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Brian Krogsgard

Wix, Shopify, and Squarespace are marketing absolutely everywhere, and spending fortunes to do so. The 3 companies listed here are on course to spend well over $200 million on marketing in 2015. In total, the 3 companies had revenues $141…

Tax day in the US

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Brian Krogsgard

It's tax day in the United States. Today, I had some conversations about taxes in the Post Status Slack (if you haven't joined, you should!) and elsewhere. It's actually not that easy to track specific income for product revenues for…

Adii Pienaar is making a WordPress comeback with stake in Obox

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessPlanet
Adii Pienaar is making a WordPress comeback after over a year away from the community. The WooThemes co-founder has made a strategic investment into Obox, the team behind the newly launched Layers product. In return, he's received a 30% stake in the company to complement Receiptful, his new eCommerce product.

The most popular WordPress plugins

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessPlanet
WordPress plugin popularity has always been pretty tough to figure out. We only had download counts or independent, third party website scrapers to tell us anything. Now, WordPress.org itself has more data that's being tested and launched to give us real insight into the popularity of WordPress plugins.

WooCommerce Handsome Hippo

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Brian Krogsgard

WooCommerce 2.3 came out today after a month log beta period. Code-named "Handsome Hippo", WooCommerce 2.3 comes with quite a few changes, but the biggest ones are the UI, which is now flatter and Sass-based versus LESS. I think the…
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