WooCommerce

Render gives a more intuitive UI to shortcodes

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Brian Krogsgard

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…

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Brian Krogsgard

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

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Brian Krogsgard

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

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Brian Krogsgard

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

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Brian Krogsgard
WooThemes announced a new product today, aimed at selling photography with WooCommerce. This is a good first step, and I'm excited to see an eCommerce product target the photography super-niche. That said, there is a ton of room in this market, and WordPress isn't really solving photographers' problems yet.

eCommerce plugin marketshare stats

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Brian Krogsgard

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

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Brian Krogsgard
The new European VAT rules rolled out at the beginning of January, and they really complicate selling digital goods to Europeans. I have done a ton of research and reading, and this is the most straightforward post I could make from it to try and wrap up the state of the EU VAT rules for WordPress business owners and eCommerce shops.

A new look and a new domain

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Brian Krogsgard
The new Post Status design is an alpha, but I wanted to show readers as soon as I could. Also, the site has a new domain and utilizes HTTPS everywhere. A lot has gone into it so far, and there is much left to do.

Is WordPress right for eCommerce?

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Beka Rice
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…

WooThemes releases Bookings for WooCommerce

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Brian Krogsgard
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…
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