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OptinMonster App: A New Multi-platform Direction for the Popular WordPress Plugin

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May 6, 2015

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The OptinMonster team has announced big changes to the popular lead generation plugin. Going forward, OptinMonster will be exclusively available as a stand-alone SaaS lead generation software—the OptinMonster App. The changes mean that OptinMonster can now be used by non-WordPress users—Drupal, Joomla, Shopify, and Magento users can all install OptinMonster on their websites. (Of course, WordPress users will still be able to use OptinMonster, too.) Current OptinMonster users should be aware that the existing WordPress plugin will remain fully supported until the end of 2015, when it will be phased out. If you want to migrate over to the OptinMonster app, […]

Ultimate Guide to WordPress eCommerce: Settings

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Al Davis

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May 5, 2015

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Welcome back to our series on WordPress eCommerce. In previous installments, we learned about the different types of eCommerce as well as some of the shopping carts available. In this post, we are going to walk through the different settings you need to configure before launching your online store. This article features WooCommerce, arguably one of the most, if not the most, popular WordPress plugins, with more than one million active downloads worldwide. Getting Started Once you’ve installed and activated the plugin (just like you would with any other plugin), you’ll notice two new tabs on your left navigation bar—WooCommerce and Products. Now […]

This Week In WordPress: 05/04/2015

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Doc Pop

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May 4, 2015

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Have a news tip or upcoming WordPress event you’d like to share, write us at [email protected]. News highlights: Emoji: WordPress 4.2 now supports emoji (even in URLs!) Here’s a clever example used to show the history of copyright in the U.S. The real issue with ThemeForest: Brandon Yanofsky weighs the pros and cons of ThemeForest. There’s lots of great discussion on this topic happening in the comments. 2015 state of open source: Shaun’s write up of what open source looks like so far in 2015. WordPress memes: Bob Dunn shares a roundup of WordPress memes. Did he miss any good ones? May […]

Open source in 2015: following WordPress’s lead

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May 4, 2015

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We’ve seen a lot of open source announcements in the news lately—something we first covered last November. Since then, the announcements have continued, thick and fast. Here are two announcements involving some of the world’s biggest companies from the last few days alone: Apple moves to third-generation Siri back-end, built on open source Mesos platform Microsoft’s open source ambitions pick up speed Why are all these huge, multi-national corporations scrambling to embrace open source? Apple and Microsoft have almost bottomless budgets to develop their own proprietary software, don’t they? So what’s in it for them? What is open source? Before […]

DradCast episode 079: Nerd with a pager

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May 1, 2015

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Show notes: Host Sam Hotchkiss has been working with WordPress for the last ten years. Over that time he worked as a freelancer, and built both a successful agency and a product business, BruteProtect, which was acquired by Automattic in 2014. Sam now works on the Jetpack team at Automattic, and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wonderful wife and their three dogs. You can find Sam on Twitter @HotchkissWeb or on his blog at swh.me! Sippin’ on Brad – Soothing tea Dre – Diet cherry coke Sam – Whiskey from High West Distillery in Utah Pressing topics  WordPress 4.2 “Powell“ – WordPress 4.2, nicknamed […]

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