ByDan Knauss
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Max Rice, co-founder and CEO of SkyVerge — a prominent seller of plugins for WooCommerce — shares how his team started this $350k/month business. 🙌
Max walks the reader the process of designing, prototyping, and manufacturing their first product. He also shares the tools, books, podcasts, and other resources that were helpful along the way.
The discussions between WooThemes and Stripe that ended up with the Stripe payment gateway being free for WooCommerce seem to go a little farther than the extension. The WooThemes website is now powered by Stripe checkout as well, including automatic renewals. Auto-renewals are new at WooThemes, and they had been running on PayPal only (not…
WooCommerce 2.6 is out, and named “Zipping Zebra”, with a slew of new features. Mike Jolley notes in the announcement that this release has been in, “development for ~5 months, and has had over 1700 commits from 25 contributors.” The most visible feature is the new “My Account” page, which is a drastic improvement, with a new…
Congrats to Patrick Rauland for his new position as Product Marketing Manager for WooCommerce at Nexcess, which is now a Liquid Web brand. Patrick explains the job and his enthusiasm for it on his blog. 🙌 CORY’S TAKE 💥 Patrick’s vast knowledge and experience of Woo and eCommerce, in general, makes this a huge nab…
WooCommerce RC1 and RC2 • GetEllipsis search volume trends report shows growth for Woo • Negative security perceptions • Remkus de Vries on burnout and making life changes.
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 for the past six years have been commercial themes. Make’s main focus is on the drag and drop…
This week I’ve been listening to Robbie Adair and Courtney Robertson on Do the Woo, Joe Casabona’s take on Patchstack’s WordPress security report, and Mayank Gupta’s guidelines for growth. And Scott Moore has a great video on the new Performance feature plugin.
