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10 WordPress Takeaways From 2015

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Emily Schiola

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December 30, 2015

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Another year is coming to an end. And, in the world of WordPress, so much has happened. It’s been a year filled with Wappuus, WordCamps, APIs, and important milestones. In no particular order, let’s take a look at 10 of the most talked about things to happen in the WordPress ecosystem in 2015. 25 Percent Of The Internet It wouldn’t be a 2015 roundup if we didn’t mention the biggest thing to happen this year. At the beginning of November, W3Tech, a web technology survey company, showed that WordPress is used by 25 percent of the Internet — that’s one […]

What’s New In WordPress 08/10/2015

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Doc Pop

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Community

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August 10, 2015

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Have a news tip or upcoming event you’d like to see in our weekly What’s New In WordPress roundup, write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: 1 Billion Downloads: As of today, there have now been over 1,000,000 plugins downloaded from WordPress.com. WP Engine has a great infographic about this milestone too. CalderaWP Plugin Giveaway: Take a survey, get a free plugin for a year from Caldera’s library. Jetpack Start: Automattic has been working on big changes for their Jetpack plugin, with a big focus on better experiences for new users. Alphabet: Google Inc is restructuring under the new company called Alphabet. Torque’s Top 10 Posts: Celebrating […]

What’s New In WordPress 07/20/2015

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Doc Pop

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July 20, 2015

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Have a news tip or upcoming event you’d like to see in our weekly What’s New In WordPress roundup, write us at [email protected]. News Highlights: Design a Wapuu for Torque: We’ve been seeing Wapuus everywhere lately, so we thought it would be fun to run a Torque-themed Wapuu contest. Help design a special Wapuu for our office. Envato Targeted by DDoS attack: “Since July 1, Envato has been the target of a sustained DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack.” These attacks have heavily affected sales on Themeforest and the Envato Market. WooTheme’s New Partnership: Sidekick, makers of interactive tutorial videos, have recently […]

Learn WooCommerce: WooThemes And SIDEKICK Partnership Announced

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Shaun Quarton

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July 17, 2015

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WooThemes have announced a new partnership with WordPress training experts, SIDEKICK. This means WooCommerce users will now have a new way to learn how to use the world’s most popular eCommerce platform—by following along with voice-guided, interactive walkthroughs. WooThemes have created 22 walkthroughs so far, totaling over 50 minutes’ worth of WooCommerce training. The walkthroughs are split into five categories: General Settings Products Checkout and Payments Shipping Taxes This is the latest push from Woo to empower their users to get the most out of the WooCommerce platform, following on from their extensive in-house video walkthrough series. Accessing the Walkthroughs […]

Q&A with Co-Founder of WooThemes, Magnus Jepson

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Marie Dodson

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July 16, 2014

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Last Wednesday, WooThemes celebrated its 6th birthday, which in startup years is no small feat! Throughout its life cycle, WooThemes has evolved alongside WordPress, and established itself as a leading WordPress theme and plugin provider. In fact, WooThemes has even built the leading eCommerce plugin for WordPress—WooCommerce. I had the pleasure of emailing with Magnus Jepson—one of the co-founders of WooThemes—and he was kind enough to answer my questions regarding the hardships, accomplishments, and growth that WooThemes has experienced over the years. Here’s what he had to say: As the co-founder of WooThemes, does the vision you had 6 years ago […]

WooThemes Continues to Investigate Security Breach

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Marie Dodson

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May 15, 2014

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Last Friday, Mark Forrester released an important announcement indicating that WooThemes was investigating a series of fraudulent activities on their customers’ credit cards. Since then, WooThemes has been working to address the issue, and to determine the exact cause of the breach. Yesterday, in a follow-up announcement, Magnus Jepson shared some information about the incident: Fraudulent charges are believed to have begun around May 1. The hackers may have obtained the credit card details somewhere between checkout and their off-site credit card processor. Customers affected by the breach are suspected to be those who made purchases between November 27, 2013 and May 8, 2014. Jepson […]

WooThemes Hits 2 Million WooCommerce Downloads

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Michelle Oznowicz

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December 19, 2013

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Today, WooThemes proudly celebrates a major milestone—reaching 2,000,000 WooCommerce downloads. Impressive, right? And yes, that’s Torque contributor Matt Cohen of WooThemes sharing his excitement in the photo above. (I “borrowed” a screenshot from the fun video they made to toast the occasion; you should check it out too.) We’re happy for them. According to statistics from builtwith.com provided on WooThemes’ site, 9% of ALL eCommerce websites are now using WooCommerce. Now that’s good business! Here’s the breakdown provided by WooThemes of the industry verticals currently leveraging WooCommerce for their businesses: In other WooNews, the community behind the platform is continuing to […]

The End of WP App Store

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Michelle Oznowicz

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September 24, 2013

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WordPress entrepreneur Brad Touesnard announced on his blog today that he has shut down his premium plugin marketplace project, WP App Store, which has been in the works for roughly two years. I had the chance to chat with Touesnard about his decision, and he explained that it was “time to kind of clean house.” The last change made to WP App Store was over two months ago, and with no plans for future changes, the project was stagnating—neither growing nor evolving. On finally making the decision to pull the plug, Touesnard confides that the choice wasn’t based on numbers, […]

New Home for Standard Theme

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Michelle Oznowicz

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September 19, 2013

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After 8BIT recently closed shop, many people expressed concern over the destiny the company’s core product, Standard Theme. Was it going to be retired…discontinued? No one seemed to know. On 8BIT’s blog—which has been notably silent as of late—an announcement was just made: Standard Theme has been acquired by WooThemes. It lives on! 8BIT’s been working on a “transition” strategy behind the scenes, and as they explain in their post, WooThemes will be providing support for Standard Theme and its customers moving forward. Existing customers will receive more information from 8BIT soon, and new customers can go straight WooThemes in the near future […]

The Cost of Support

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Chris Howard

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September 12, 2013

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As a human-type, I like things like food, clothing, shelter…and coding. Although it would be nice to live in a cave, throwing pointy sticks at other members of the food chain, my family—and stomach—may grow impatient. So instead, I am a developer. I do have my own little cave where I chip away at the code that is my livelihood, like my Neanderthal ancestors chipping away at an obsidian blade. He was a specialist too, cousin Og. Making blades, spear points and other hurty-type tools for his clan. I wonder though, when someone came to him and said, “Hey, that knife you […]

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