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Render gives a more intuitive UI to shortcodes

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2015

Render is a project by Real Big Marketing that attempts (and succeeds, I believe) to offer a more intuitive UI for handling shortcodes in the WordPress admin. The video to see how Render works is 7 minutes, but I think…

I have x and y, I just need to…

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2015

I didn't expect to answer a question on Quora today. Most days I'm just annoyed by their emails. But today a question caught my eye, purely because I was curious what the answers were. Here was the question: I need…

Listen & Watch

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2015

Ah, Friday. If you're slacking a bit, or just looking for some good stuff to listen to or watch this weekend, let me help. Here are some of the best things I've seen this week: A look at WordPress performance…

Be on the lookout: Shop Plugins is an upcoming eCommerce marketplace

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2015

eCommerce is getting pretty darn big for WordPress. Daniel Espinoza knows eCommerce. He's built extensions for both WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads, not to mention some non-WordPress entities. He's working on a third-party marketplace aiming to allow anyone to sell their extensions.…

WooCommerce is going after photography

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Photography is a huge -- and quite competitive -- market. WooThemes has one nice advantage, in that they are quite dominant in the eCommerce space. However, catering to actually selling photos is a whole new world. You're talking about competing with…

eCommerce plugin marketshare stats

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2015

Beka Rice has done an awesome write-up on SellWithWP, where she analyzes who is using what WordPress eCommerce plugins out in the wild. Not too surprisingly, WooCommerce is dominate, with over three quarters of marketshare, according to Builtwith. But the…

WordPress and the new European Union VAT (Value-Added Tax) rules

Brian Krogsgard

January 15, 2015

BusinessHosting

On January 1st, the EU rolled out some new rules for handling the VAT (Value-Added Tax). Let's start with the obvious: I'm not a lawyer or accountant and this post is just me chit chatting and doesn't constitute any official…

A new look and a new domain

Brian Krogsgard

January 7, 2015

BusinessDesign

Last night I launched version 3 of Post Status. The site design was about a year and a half old and in the first two iterations I never put too much thought into it as much as just trying to…

Is WordPress right for eCommerce?

Beka Rice

October 6, 2014

HostingPlanet

I'm going to take a leaf out of Chris Lema's book right now to answer whether WordPress should be used for eCommerce: It depends. There are camps of thought that think WordPress isn't right for eCommerce, and there are people…

Week in review: Beta 2, refinement, transparency, Do Action, apps, and more

Brian Krogsgard

July 21, 2014

PlanetSecurity

Welcome to the fourth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. There are a lot of great reads to catch up on…

Week in review: Beta 1, WooThemes is seeing double, and much more

Brian Krogsgard

July 13, 2014

HostingPlanet

Welcome to the third “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. It's been a busy week, and there's a lot to share,…

The first ever WooCommerce conference is November 3rd & 4th, on the heels of WCSF

Brian Krogsgard

July 2, 2014

BusinessPlanet

The WooThemes team put up a landing page today for their first ever WooCommerce conference, which is to be held in San Francisco November 3rd and 4th. The conference is right on the heels of WordCamp San Francisco, which is…

UpThemes adds Lucid theme collection to their reportoire

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2014

BusinessDesign

The Lucid Theme shop was run by Jon Bellah until today. He still maintains the Lucid brand, but he's sold his themes to UpThemes. When I inquired with Chris Wallace, founder of UpThemes, about why they made the acquisition, he said,…

Make and Make Plus, a drag and drop framework from The Theme Foundry

Travis Northcutt

May 21, 2014

WordPress News

The Theme Foundry today announced Make, a free theme that "takes the drag and drop page builder from Basis to the next level." The fact that Make is a free theme is notable, as most of The Theme Foundry's themes…

WooThemes releases Bookings for WooCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2014

WordPress News

WooThemes has been working on their Bookings extension for quite a while. They had the idea for Bookings before WooCommerce was WooCommerce, and had some form of the product even in December 2011. They wanted to make sure they did…

AffiliateWP launches with aim to make affiliate marketing with WordPress easy

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2014

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

Pippin Williamson and Andrew Munro have just launched Version 1.0 of AffiliateWP, an affiliate marketing plugin for WordPress with simplicity and ease of use in mind. Pippin is well known in the WordPress community for his work as a plugin…