One of the best marketing strategies is simply having ‘news’ to share. A new and timely message leads people to turn their heads and give you their attention, even if just for a few moments. But how do you come up with relevant news that will increase your sales?

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Prepare for our next Dev Chat on June 27th at 16:00 UTC in the #core channel of the WooCommerce Community Slack. If you don’t already have access to the group, you can request an invite here. For this month Dev Chat we are going to talk about changing the WooCommerce Admin target to possible WooCommerce&ellipsis;Read the full post »

We are happy to announce the availability of a new build of the WooCommerce Admin feature plugin! If this is the first time you have heard about WooCommerce Admin, it is a new JavaScript-driven interface for managing your WooCommerce stores that is focusing on creating new and improved reports, and a dashboard to monitor all&ellipsis;Read the full post »

We’re excited to announce the arrival of WooCommerce Bookings Availability, a new add-on extension for WooCommerce Bookings. A long-time request from users on the ideas board, our team has worked tirelessly over the past few months to make it a reality. We hope this gives Bookings users a new way of marketing their availability while […]

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Learn more about Strong Customer Authentication and how to set up your online store for success.

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Yesterday we had our Dev Chat #27, thanks to everyone that joined us, we had about 15 people in the attendance, you all are welcome to read the full backscroll of the dev chat here. WooCommerce 3.7 and merging WooCommerce Admin Our Dev Chat started with news about 3.7 development and WooCommerce Admin. Right now&ellipsis;Read the full post »

As promised in our last Dev Chat on May 2nd, our next Dev Chat will be next Thursday, May 30th at 16:00 UTC in the #core channel of the WooCommerce Community Slack. If you don’t already have access to the group, you can request an invite here. For this next Dev Chat we like to&ellipsis;Read the full post »

WooCommerce 3.6.4 is now available. This release fixes some small bugs that were reported in the last weeks, a notice to check out the WooCommerce Admin feature plugin, and more. ~19 commits made it into this release and the full changelog is below. Download the latest release of WooCommerce here or venture over to Dashboard&ellipsis;Read the full post »

If you’ve used WooCommerce Subscriptions to sell anything from pet food to nail polish; if you’ve automated your marketing with AutomateWoo; if you’ve tested checkout with Robot Ninja—then you’ve been served by the expertise and passion of the Prospress team. Today we’re excited to announce that Prospress is joining Automattic to work closely with WooCommerce […]

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We are happy to announce the availability of a new build of the WooCommerce Admin feature plugin! If this is the first time you have heard about WooCommerce Admin, it is a new JavaScript-driven interface for managing your WooCommerce stores that is focusing on creating new and improved reports, and a dashboard to monitor all&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Reading has the power to spark children’s imaginations, transporting them to magical places where anything is possible. Taking this idea a step further, Bang On Books personalized adventure books fully immerse kids in stories where they become the main character – the hero. “Bang on” is a colloquial British term describing an item as being […]

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WooCommerce 3.6.3 is now available. This release fixes some small bugs that were reported in the last weeks, including a fix preventing bulk editing to set “out of stock” stock status incorrectly, and more. ~85 commits made it into this release and the full changelog is below. Download the latest release of WooCommerce here or&ellipsis;Read the full post »

It’s not easy to stand out on the internet these days. Wildlabs is a small web agency in New Zealand that’s passionate about helping businesses to be – in the truest sense of the word – outstanding. Flwr is one such online store and business: Artem Verbo of Wildlabs customized WordPress and WooCommerce to create […]

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Version 2.1.0 of WooCommerce Blocks is now available as a feature plugin. This plugin iterates on the blocks in WooCommerce 3.6, bringing in some features and performance improvements. New in 2.1.0 We’ve added support for the “Focal Point Picker” to the Featured Product block. You can now pick a focal point of your product image&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Thanks to everyone that joined us in our last Dev Chat on May 2nd, we had about 20 people in attendance, results based in our emoji reactions inquiry. The discussion was great, and you are welcome to read the full backscroll of the dev chat here, or find some notes after the break. 3.6: Questions&ellipsis;Read the full post »

Do you know how to hire the right developer? This is the question VerifyWP shines some light on, with regards to technical WordPress developers. A Problem That Hit Close to Home The problem of finding and hiring really great WordPress developers dogged Jonathan Martin for years. In his decade of running an agency, he’d found […]

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Storefront 2.5.0 has just been tagged for release and uploaded to WordPress.org. That means it should be available to download very soon! While 2.5 is not a major release, you should not update live sites without adequate testing on a staging site. If you are using any additional Storefront products (child themes and/or extensions) be&ellipsis;Read the full post »