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WooCommerce: Vote for your Payment Gateways
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Since announcing the upcoming release of WooCommerce, things are heating up considerably for the launch, on all fronts… Don’t worry though, we are focussing our attention on what’s important – making it the best it can be. We’d like to know which payment gateways you’re using at the moment, or which you would consider using
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| (Published: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:46:13 +0000) |
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The One Hundred Milestone
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An incredible amount has happened since we launched in July 2008, as we mentioned in our 3rd birthday blog post. Today marks another monumental milestone we are hugely proud about – our 100th theme release. The must watch video Introducing Swatch Swatch is a FREE, yes you read that correctly, business theme with a portfolio
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| (Published: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:34:41 +0000) |
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Teasing number 100
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We are only days away from the release of our 100th theme. Can you believe it? 100 themes. To get everyone excited for our big milestone we thought we’d tease the theme in a different way. Ryan ‘The Cannon’ Ray has been experimenting with Final Cut Pro X and Motion and this is the result.
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| (Published: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:57:00 +0000) |
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The Good Stuff: New Team Members, WooLabs, WooCommerce & Plugins
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This is going to be a massive post, stocked with so many exciting announcements. Heck, this is one of the most epic and exciting announcement posts we have written in our 3+ years of existence. We know that you’ve been waiting for such announcements for a very long while now (thank you for your patience
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| (Published: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:11:37 +0000) |
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The New Dashboard & Growing Pains
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We rolled out our biggest project ever on Monday: a brand new user dashboard. Suffice to say, the launch has not been without its own set of (unique) issues. But that’s pretty much expected, right? We’d be lying if we said that we thought it would be possible for us to rewrite the whole core
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| (Published: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:31:14 +0000) |
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This is the new Woo!
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18 months of blood, sweet & tears, thousands of lines of new code, Basecamp threads & to-do lists that stretch miles, that coupled with a considerable amount of patience and we’re finally ready to introduce you to the next iteration of WooThemes. Phew…We’ve revised WooThemes from the ground up, which means you now have a
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| (Published: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:48:25 +0000) |
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Announcing Announcement
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Matthew Smith approached us a few months ago, before the talented SquaredEye design team shut office to join forces with a booming online start-up. He had a theme idea for us, after previously designing the slick charity theme “Saving Grace”. I received an email one morning reading: I was driving this morning and thought about
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| (Published: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:59:59 +0000) |
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WooFramework: Security Checked!
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Good news – especially in the light of the recent vulnerability found in TimThumb – is that we recently worked with WordPress Lead Developer & Security Expert, Mark Jaquith, to do a complete security audit of the WooFramework. This is what Mark said about the audit: WooThemes approached me to do a security audit on
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| (Published: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:21:32 +0000) |
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iPad 2 Survey Winners
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We recently hosted a little survey within the WooCommunity (members only) to figure out just how we could further improve WooThemes for our users. We got more than 3000 responses on the survey and we’ve already started to put some new decisions in place based on your feedback. To say thanks, we also promised to
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| (Published: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:40:16 +0000) |
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What Inspires You Every Day?
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We have quite the jobs over here at WooThemes, working with WordPress and creating beautiful themes. On paper it sounds wonderful, and it really is in reality as well. That still doesn’t mean that there isn’t any monotony to our jobs or burn out that may happen. Yes, even for founders of hugely successful companies the problem
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| (Published: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:53:45 +0000) |
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Redesigning The News
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We’re trying our hand at redesigning the news, courtesy of the incredible talents from design maestro, Andy Rutledge. A couple of weeks ago, Andy wrote an elaborate article about how digital news is broken. His article included an analysis of The New York Times‘, as well as a proposed design of how he would’ve attempted
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| (Published: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:54:37 +0000) |
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Teasing #99 & #100
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We’re working on so many awesome things at the moment and we will be making some significant announcements (erm, cough, WooCommerce, cough, too) in the next couple of weeks. Before that though, we’ve got theme releases #99 & the big #100 to attend to. Here’s a sneak peak… #99 will be a new niche theme
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| (Published: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:16:23 +0000) |
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Guiding You Through Canvas
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We’ve been on a very prominent drive in the last couple of months to solidify Canvas‘ status as our flagship theme here at WooThemes. The release of Canvas V4 was followed shortly thereafter by the addition of a portfolio module, which has made Canvas a truly flexible set of incredible functionality. The biggest challenge with
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| (Published: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:11:58 +0000) |
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More Woo on WordPress.com
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In the last couple of months, we’ve steadily been working with the Theme Team over at WordPress.com to roll out some of our most popular themes to WP.com users. Today’s release of Chapters, takes our tally of WordPress.com to 5 in total, with more themes being ported over in due course over the next couple
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| (Published: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:40:55 +0000) |
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Timthumb (thumb.php) Security Flaw
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This morning we were made aware of a security flaw within the Timthumb image resizing script, which is utilized in our themes for dynamic image resizing. It is also widely used in other WordPress themes and plugins. As a result of this security flaw, the author of TimThumb and the author of WordThumb have worked
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| (Published: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:46:58 +0000) |
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Case Study: How Adii.me was built with a Canvas child theme
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Preface I’m Kris Millsap, a web developer and video editor with New Media Samurai (NMS3 for short). We provide creative services (web development & video production) for companies looking to enhance and develop their brand/persona across the internet. We’re Affiliated Woo Workers and active users of WooJobs. I am a super fan of WooThemes and
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| (Published: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:54:39 +0000) |
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Getting Ready For 100 Themes
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If you’ve noticed this little counter in our site’s footer, you’ve seen that it’s ticking dangerously close to 100 themes. Now, as far as I’m aware we’re the only theme shop with this many themes available for you to choose from. This is only made possible by our designers & developers relentless drive to keep
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| (Published: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:00:12 +0000) |
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Sometimes Less Glamour is More Valuable
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I’ve been doing a bit of thinking lately about which of our themes & individual theme features are most valuable to users and I’ve come to a very simple conclusion: sometimes it is the least glamorous feature that is also one of the most valuable features. I was specifically thinking of our “Custom Logo” function,
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| (Published: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:08:11 +0000) |
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Canvas Gets a Portfolio Module
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A portfolio module has been one of the most popular requests for our Canvas framework theme. We’ve however always been cautious adding such heavy functionality into the theme and bloating the code. At least we have been until now… With the recent launch of Canvas 4 a couple months back we are now hugely confident in
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| (Published: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:38:37 +0000) |
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Editorial Case Study
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We recently released Editorial, a magazine theme that aims to mimic familiar features of traditional print media, like newspapers and magazines. This post takes a look at the thought process that went into designing Editorial, and the implementation and development of some of those ideas. Editorial’s design is very much inspired by traditional newspaper layouts,
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| (Published: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:37:22 +0000) |
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A theme for any designer
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In February we worked with the design talent that is Cameron Moll on a portfolio/tumblog theme, similar to Elefolio given it’s popularity. Cameron is a seasoned speaker, a graphic designer with proficiency in website interface, a letterpress & videography enthusiast, as well as the owner of Authentic Jobs – which only yesterday launched it’s new Authentic
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| (Published: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:43:34 +0000) |
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Get Involved!
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The WooCommunity has been growing from strength to strength these last few months and we’re excited about the dynamism and activity that is being generated from within. We’re keen to further fuel this activity and step up the value that is being created by members of the WooCommunity. Our first initiative is to start publishing
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| (Published: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:16:20 +0000) |
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Re-applying the Canvas
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As our flagship theme, Canvas has seen many enhancements and additions since it’s released early last year. The response to Canvas’ flexibility and ease of use from users at all levels has been incredible. With this in mind, it was time to give Canvas a bit of a tune up under the hood and overhaul
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| (Published: Mon, 23 May 2011 10:17:47 +0000) |
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The Butterfly Circus – a Case Study on Advanced Canvas Modification
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This guest post was written by Nick Daugherty of Skyrocket Websites who has an impressive portfolio of clients and extensive WooThemes modifications. To go along with the release of Canvas v4, the WooThemes guys asked me to write up a case study for some of my recent Canvas-based projects, which I’m absolutely thrilled to do. My
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| (Published: Fri, 20 May 2011 10:28:19 +0000) |
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An Evening of Beers, WordPress & Woo
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At the end of last month, we mentioned the possibility of having a little London meetup on our upcoming trip to the UK. And now we can confirm that this is indeed happening… Along with our great friends, VPS.NET, we’re co-hosting an evening of beers, WordPress, general geekery and all things Woo on Monday, 6
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| (Published: Thu, 19 May 2011 14:35:20 +0000) |
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WooVille #7: Canvas & Transformers
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Transformers’ (the movie) 3rd installment will soon be hitting the box office, but we’ve managed to totally upstage this much-anticipated hit with our own release of Canvas’ 4th installment. With all of the flexibility and theme options built into Canvas it mirrors the awesomeness of Optimus Prime at his fighting best. We also highly doubt
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| (Published: Thu, 19 May 2011 08:14:06 +0000) |
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Release When Ready?
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In Getting Real, the development industry’s manifesto by 37Signals, introduces a concept of “releasing when ready”. This basically implies that date-based milestones / deadlines aren’t that important and that if you’re developing a new product, or aiming to release an updated version of your product, you should release it when it’s ready (and not give succumb to
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| (Published: Mon, 16 May 2011 13:15:44 +0000) |
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The Best Ways to Make WooUsers Happy
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One of my favorite parts of working with the WooCommunity is hearing from a satisfied customer. We aren’t always able to make everyone happy, but for the most part I’d say we get the job done and have many happy WooThemes fans from it. 100% Satisfaction is always something we’re striving for, but for some people
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| (Published: Wed, 11 May 2011 12:54:50 +0000) |
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Canvas V4 is here!
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In the last couple of months, Canvas has well-and-truly become the flagship product here at WooThemes. Canvas is absolutely feature-packed with some of the best awesomeness we’ve ever developed and if you consider that Canvas was first released in March 2009, it boasts a truly mature feature set that has definitely been tried & tested.
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| (Published: Tue, 10 May 2011 12:21:31 +0000) |
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Tracking Bugs
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A couple of weeks ago, we announced our new collaboration – with the talented duo, Jay Koster & Mike Jolley – to collaborate & develop a few app-like themes with us. The first theme (of which we hope to be many more) is ready to be unleashed into the wild. Feast your eyes on FaultPress. FaultPress is an
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| (Published: Thu, 05 May 2011 09:09:59 +0000) |
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Streamlining & Improving (Part 2): Development
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Last week we explained that we were in the process of streamlining & improving a couple of things in & around WooThemes. This is the second part to that initial post and we suggest that you read that post first, since it provides some much-needed context. The second significant area which we’re targeting with a
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| (Published: Mon, 02 May 2011 10:47:23 +0000) |
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Beers, WordPress & Woo in London?
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The exciting news is that the whole WooTeam will be in the UK (London & Newcastle to be precise) in early June, where we’ll meet up, spend some time chilling and amongst other things, attend DIBI. The most exciting part of this is, that this will be the first time in our 3-odd years of
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| (Published: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:36:33 +0000) |
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A Whole Lot of Kaboodle
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Sometimes we release themes that have a knack of immediately shooting to the top of the Theme Leaderboard and then staying there for months to come (thus becoming an all-time bestseller in no time at all). This is exactly what happened when we released Simplicity last month and when this happens, it’s too tempting not
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| (Published: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:14:05 +0000) |
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Bringing WooAwesomeness to Non-Profits
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We’ve been wanting to release a theme specifically for charities & non-profit organizations for ages, but in the past we’ve just not been able to prioritize time to do this. Plus we’ve always known that any of our other themes (especially our business themes) could be adapted and use for this purpose. Yet somehow this
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| (Published: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:49:54 +0000) |
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Streamlining & Improving (Part 1): Support
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A culmination of quite a few things that has happened in & around WooThemes in the last couple of months, has seen us trying to take a step back from all the huffing & puffing and just take stock of where we are at as a company and a team. Across all of the spheres
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| (Published: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:02:29 +0000) |
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