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The New WooCommerce Agency Partner Program
Dan Knauss
Here's everything you should know about the WooCommerce Agency Partner Program with their program manager, Mary Voelker. Key takeaways: The WooExpert program started in 2015, and participants had to be invited and pay for a membership in it. Agency partnersā¦
Why the WordPress.org growth charts might not matter
Dan Knauss
Why lament the loss of a declining statistic? Writing in the Ellipsis newsletter early this week, Alex Denning floated the idea that "WordPress.org growth charts might not matter." Why? Alex writes: Our experience is that freemium is an inefficient andā¦
WooCommerce vs. Shopify: Why Do We Make It So Hard?
Dan Knauss
Rob Howard built the MasterWP merch store as quickly as possible with WooCommerce, and then he assessed the relative difficulty of building with Woo rather than Shopify. His conclusion? A high-end WP developer [i.e., Rob] needed half a day toā¦
Blueprint This: A WooCommerce Private Store
Dan Knauss
This is a great explainer from Cozmos Labs for setting up WooCommerce as a private/walled garden store. Why do that? Because you're a manufacturer/wholesaler who sells directly to retailers ā and at the same time you want to expand, educate,ā¦
Nice weather they’re having
Dan Knauss
Apparently unaffected by downward trends elsewhere, GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) posted some bullish numbers for their second quarter with revenue up 9% year-over-year, and net Income up 93% year-over-year. See the presentation slides and other prepared remarks from CEO Amanā¦
Partnerships in WordPress and WooCommerce
Dan Knauss
Bob Dunn breaks down the main types of partnerships he sees working (in different contexts) in the Woo/WP space: Affiliates and income-generating partnershipsThe Real Business PartnershipThe Sponsorship PartnershipThe Soft Partnership Read/listen to the whole thing for good insights and adviceā¦
Woo Weekly #400: State of WooCommerce 2022
Dan Knauss
Congrats to Rodolfo Melogli of Business Bloomer and David Mainayar at PeachPay for reaching issue #400 of WooWeekly back in July. To celebrate this milestone, Rodolfo asked a lot of people (including me) to explain what one thing they'd changeā¦
WooCommerce 6.7, Release Cadence update, “If you could change one thing in Woo,” and Marius Vetrici is WooDev of the Week
Bob Dunn
There's still no substitute for la sensazione della scarpa sul piede... New Releases This week WooCommerce 6.7 was released. The most notable updates in this round were the location of the Product Reviews. These have been moved to a dedicatedā¦
WooCommerce Blocks 8.1, Joost on Shopify’s Decline, Insights from Beka Rice and Birgit Pauli-Haack
Bob Dunn
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Woo Snippet for the Week of July 11 If you haven't seen the release notes for WooCommerce Blocks 8.1, a few items under "Enhancements" deserve special notice: There's an accessibility update to the block templateā¦
WooCommerce Update: Blocks 8.0, Checkout Block Payment Method Guide and Dummy Gateway, Licensing Solutions, Future of Payments, and Carl meets BÅggie
Bob Dunn
Latest Releases This week, the newest version of WooCommerce Blocks 8.0.0 was released. There were three enhancements and a couple of bug fixes this time around. Prior to that, WooCommerce 6.7 RC was released, and July 12 is 6.7's finalā¦
WooCommerce Function of the Week: wc_get_endpoint_url
Rodolfo Melogli
This week's WooCommerce function is about endpoints. What's an endpoint? Endpoints are "an extra part in the website URL that is detected to show different content when it's present. For example: You may have a āMy Accountā page shown atā¦
