Congratulations to Easy Digital Downloads for passing 400,000 downloads this week, and to WooCommerce for passing 4,500,000! Each have had new content and products released this week.
- EDD released two new extensions this week: Google Wallet will allow customers to purchase items on your site using their Google wallet as a payment method. Email Reports will fetch your store’s sales stats and send them to you in a daily summary.
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The Squarecode theme for EDD now includes support the EDD Wishlists plugin.
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The WooCommerce development roadmap is now public on Trello, which means you can follow along with proposed features and vote for them.
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Two new WooCommerce extensions were released this week: WooCommerce 360 image, which lets you create a rotating featured image, and the free Recommendations by Graphflow integration.
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There were also several WooCommerce tutorials and tips posted this week:
- Patrick Rauland wrote about how to use table rate shipping.
- If you use the WooCommerce Currency Converter Widget, you can display country flags rather than currency symbols.
- Here’s how to only show free shipping for shipping methods if it’s available.
- Here are two from SkyVerge: How to align add-to-cart buttons in the shop and How to add WooCommerce custom order status icons.
- Treehouse is also launching a WooCommerce course soon for help on setting up a WooCommerce site.
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Looking to learn more about WordPress development? One of the best resources out there is WPSessions, and they’re about to start weekly workshops for development topics.
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Not sure whether WordPress or a different platform is right for your store? Here’s a post I wrote this week on Post Status: Is WordPress Right for eCommerce?
Thanks for stopping by, and enjoy your weekend!
