WooThemes are now available on ThemeForest….did anyone else see this coming? I certainly didn’t. But now it’s starting to come together as to why WooThemes shut down their affiliate program. ThemeForest has one built into their platform. So why is WooThemes stooping moving into the premium themes marketplace world? From the outside, it appeared like [...]
In a huge relaunch, WooThemes launched a new site and soon, new services. I really like the “Apple approach” that they took in re-designing their site. The new design highlights specific offerings that WooThemes has and it feels very well thought out.
WooThemes is undoudbtly a successful premium themes company. They have certainly left their footprint both in the WordPress core and the on the WordPress community as a whole. 4 years ago today WooThemes launched. What started as 3 WordPress designers dabbling in commercial theme development working from three home offices in Cape Town, London and [...]
WooCommerce is a great free e-Commerce platform for WordPress. It offers a lot of functionality out of the box and makes it easy to get started running your own e-Commerce website. Today marks the announcement of WooCommerce Subscription Billing. Here are just a few things you could sell using this subscription billing: Selling magazines — [...]
Earlier this year, WooThemes announced they were retiring some of their themes. Some of their best themes went to rest, such as VibrantCMS, Gotham News, and Fresh Folio. It was sad to see them go. It’s that time again for Woo. Announced early this morning by Magnus, there are 17 more themes going into retirement. [...]
Modernize WordPress Theme Modernize is clean, easy to ready, and simply just a beautiful business theme. This feature-packed WordPress theme even comes with its own page builder, making it a breeze to create customized layouts to fit any need. Just a few features of the theme include: 6 footer layouts, 350+ fonts, a drag-n-drop page [...]
WooThemes has over 100 themes available to download. That’s a lot of themes to continue to maintain and add functionality to over time. As part of the WooThemes 2012 strategy, they are simplifying and refocusing their efforts. I applaud for them for wanting to do that, as they should. 125 themes (what is currently available), [...]
WooCommerce is an open-source e-commerce platform by WooThemes. It’s free and easy to use, however, there still may be other extensions you need, such as the ability to take credit cards. Here are some great plugins to help you take advantage of WooCommerce. WooCommerce Payment Gateway Extensions WooCommerce Shipping Extensions There are a number of [...]
The Woo Team announced that WooCommerce 1.4 is on the way soon. Here’s the short list of new things coming soon: A new default theme Much better and easier to use templating system for beginners Local and compound taxes Many code optimisations to improve loading time/memory I recently started using WooCommerce for a project I’m [...]
WooCommerce, developed by WooThemes, launched its 1.2.2 version this morning. What are some of the new features? Customer email notifications about the status of their order Ability to make a layered navigation have an “OR” query so you can expand search You can now display size/weight on the attributes tab of the product listing page [...]
Jonathan Dingman is a passionate blogger who loves writing about WordPress news, reporting on events, theme releases, awesome plugins, and more. He started using WordPress in 2004 and ran the first WordCamp NYC in 2008.