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WordPress.com adds partners to lower the barrier to eCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2014

WordPress.com has new eCommerce options available to its users. Back in March of 2013, they partnered with ShopLocket for their Enterprise and VIP customers to be able to use the eCommerce tools on their WordPress websites. Now, they've added Ecwid…

WooCommerce 2.1 Released

Travis Northcutt

February 10, 2014

WordPress News

WooThemes announced the release of WooCommerce 2.1 "Peppy Penguin" today. Major changes include a REST API, a new look for the admin panel to match the WordPress 3.8 UI, improved reporting tools, and responsive default templates.

WooCommerce now powers over 10% of all eCommerce websites

Brian Krogsgard

February 5, 2014

WordPress News

WooCommerce has had explosive growth. That's not new to anyone. But you may not realize just how much WooCommerce has grown compared to the eCommerce space in general. The WooThemes folks wanted to know who was using their product and…

Interview with Mark Forrester, co-founder of WooThemes

Brian Krogsgard

November 12, 2013

BusinessDraft

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting WooThemes HQ in Cape Town, South Africa. Throughout the week I had the opportunity to interact with WooThemes' co-founders Mark Forrester and Magnus Jepson, as well as the rest of the Cape…

How big can a WooCommerce store be?

Brian Krogsgard

October 31, 2013

WordPress News

The folks at MarketPress did a poll to see how big of shops people have built and managed with WooCommerce. 29% of respondents said they'd built a shop with 250-1000 products, and 11% said they'd built one with "1000+" products.…

The Events Calendar to get more ticketing support with new EDD add-on

Brian Krogsgard

October 30, 2013

WordPress News

The Events Calendar is a popular events solution from Modern Tribe. It's my personal favorite events calendar that I believe well balances features and simplicity. It could perhaps be simpler than it is, but it's not near as complex as…

iThemes Exchange adds support for memberships and physical goods

Brian Krogsgard

October 10, 2013

WordPress News

iThemes Exchange was released only a few months ago, but they've been iterating quickly. As I shared then, they released Exchange without support for physical goods. Now they've not only added support for physical goods, but memberships (recurring and non-recurring)…

Anonymity is bullshit

Brian Krogsgard

August 6, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

I'm a little fired up. Tonight, I saw an open-ended and, honestly, silly post from Torque about a strange WooCommerce extensions shop called WP Avengers. WP Avengers, as it turns out, is a group of essentially anonymous folks who claim…

iThemes releases Exchange, a WordPress eCommerce plugin

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2013

WordPress News

iThemes has just released Exchange on the WordPress plugin repository. They've been working for some time their new WordPress eCommerce plugin. They opened up a beta for some users about a month ago. A few days ago, I checked it out…

Reality66 (behind Cart66 and Mijireh) launches Cart66 Cloud

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2013

WordPress News

Wow. I wonder if this may be what was going to be WP Stores? I wrote about Cart66 at WPCandy over two years ago, that caught a bunch of attention / upset customers. Their owner was really nice and I…

WooThemes integrates with Creative Market

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2013

WordPress News

Creative Market hit the scene pretty quickly earlier this year as a 100% GPL theme marketplace. Now, WooCommerce has announced that they have made some of their themes available on Creative Market.

Mike Jolley releases beta of a new job manager plugin

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2013

WordPress News

Mike Jolley, the lead developer and original creator of WooCommerce, has released a beta version of a new plugin called WP Job Manager. It's free and available on Github. Knowing how WooCommerce works, I'm really excited to try this out.…

iThemes is entering the WordPress eCommerce landscape with Exchange

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2013

WordPress News

iThemes announced this morning that they are entering the eCommerce landscape with a new product called Exchange. Based on their announcement post, it seems the product will be a classical physical goods eCommerce product, in the same realm as WooCommerce,…

Core plugin dependency is necessary for a better WordPress ecosystem

Brian Krogsgard

May 9, 2013

WordPress News

The debate over plugin dependency has been around WordPress for years. I strongly believe that WordPress core needs a simple plugin dependency API for a healthier WordPress ecosystem. Building plugin dependency into core does more than make something already possible…

Keep your WordPress plugins easy to use and expand

Brian Krogsgard

March 12, 2013

WordPress News

Today I had the chance to explain to one of our users why a feature was not added to WooCommerce core, but released as a separate extension. The people who do not use extra features can benefit of a faster…

WooCommerce 2.0 released

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2013

WordPress News

I use WooCommerce quite a bit, and today their big 2.0 update was released. There are many, many improvements, and I'm excited too see such active development. The new product data panel is probably my favorite thing. Congratulations to Mike Jolley,…

WordPress.com adds partners to lower the barrier to eCommerce

WooCommerce 2.1 Released

WooCommerce now powers over 10% of all eCommerce websites

Interview with Mark Forrester, co-founder of WooThemes

How big can a WooCommerce store be?

The Events Calendar to get more ticketing support with new EDD add-on

iThemes Exchange adds support for memberships and physical goods

Anonymity is bullshit

iThemes releases Exchange, a WordPress eCommerce plugin

Reality66 (behind Cart66 and Mijireh) launches Cart66 Cloud

WooThemes integrates with Creative Market

Mike Jolley releases beta of a new job manager plugin

iThemes is entering the WordPress eCommerce landscape with Exchange

Core plugin dependency is necessary for a better WordPress ecosystem

Keep your WordPress plugins easy to use and expand

WooCommerce 2.0 released

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