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You’ve been GPL’d!

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August 8, 2013

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What WordPress and WooThemes can learn from Linux History I’d like to tell you all a story to give some perspective on recent events that have happened in the WordPress community. Once there was a smart Founder who wanted to change the world. He was a scrappy and outspoken 20-something who decided to build his own Open Source Software (OSS) project with a few friends because he knew he could design something that was better than the competition. He chose principle over profit and picked an OSS license that would protect the community over even his own interests. He handed over […]

WP Avengers Enter the Scene

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August 6, 2013

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In the wake of WooThemes’ controversial price raise, WP Avengers make a unique debut. See it for yourself here. What are they doing? As a customer / developer, I want a source of affordable and high quality extensions with good support. I need a range of extensions – payment gateway, shipping, product configuration, marketing and reporting. And I don’t want to be screwed! Instead of going around problems, I’m actually building this solution along with some ace WooCommerce developers. Who are they? We are a group of WooCommerce / WordPress developers, led by Nathan Walker. Nathan has been doing PHP since PHP 2, […]

Yotpo Launches WooCommerce Extension for Social Reviews

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July 9, 2013

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WooCommerce continues to grow steadily with impressive download numbers every single month and despite newcomers to the space, like iThemes’ Exchange, I don’t see it slowing down a single bit, especially as other companies get on the WooThemes choo choo train. For example, let’s take a look at Yotpo and what they’ve done with their Yotpo Social Reviews service.

The WordPress Weekend Roundup

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June 29, 2013

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I hope you are having a very chill and relaxed weekend as we walk into the 4th of July week! Many of you are probably traveling this week and I hope you travel well and safely. Perhaps most importantly is that you can get offline and just enjoy family, life, and other such things that are vastly more important than *gasp* WordPress! Hahaha!

The WordPress Weekend Roundup

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June 22, 2013

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What a week – how was yours? I’m spending my time in Florida on a mini-vacation of sorts (still very-much working) and it’s been good so far. The team back home in Atlanta hasn’t let anything burn to the ground, so that’s good news. Hope you are finding some rest and relaxation this summer my friends!

WooCommerce and the 1M Downloads

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June 18, 2013

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Nothing but love and much congratulations to the WooThemes team on continuing to develop a product worth downloading. Isn’t that the neat thing about open source? You can entirely validate, at least generally speaking, the quality and success of a product by just looking at the sheer number of downloads. Sure, downloads is just one of many signals of success and especially quality, but if you back that up with an established company with a brand that’s worth noting, it just represents all-around goodness.

The WordPress Weekend Roundup

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June 8, 2013

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A full first week of June, can you imagine that? We’ll jump right into our weekly weekend roundup but first, make sure you check out our growing Job Board that has already gotten a lot of views and has been able to connect more than a few WordPressers with new gigs! Stoked about that as, well, that’s the point!

iThemes Enters eCommerce Space with Exchange

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June 5, 2013

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The biggest news in the eCommerce space isn’t Shopify with their v2 being released yesterday but rather iThemes and their new entry in the growing shopping space with Exchange. And they were greeted with many votes of confidence and praise, even from existing competitors. As one person mentioned, this is what’s so great about the WordPress community because we can pat each other on the back despite our commercial interests: Competitors who treat each other with respect because they understand that the culture of the community they’re in doesn’t do competition the way other communities do it. iThemes on-going challenges will […]

Shopify Announces v2.0, 60+ Features

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June 4, 2013

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With over 60 new features to the new back-end admin existing Shopify users will be in for a real treat (if they haven’t already enjoyed the experience already). Although they’ve been in active beta their announcement this morning brings the new features full-bore for the world to experience and use. The customers on the front-end won’t know any difference but shop owners will without question. A few features of note:

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