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Resolutions for 2014
With 2013 drawing to an end, it’s time to start thinking about the upcoming year and what I hope to accomplish. I didn’t set any resolutions for 2013, but this year I want to set myself some goals so I have something to work towards. Here are my four new year resolutions.
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2013 (almost) complete
As we approach the end of 2013, I’d like to reflect a little on the past year’s events and my achievements. My highlights for this year included releasing WooCommerce 2.0 and hitting both 1 and 2 million download milestones, releasing my jobs plugin, and the WooTrip to Leiden and WordCamp EU.
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Two zero zero zero zero zero zero
Wow, what a milestone. WooCommerce has today hit 2 million downloads, just 6 months after hitting a million. How did we get here? Team WooCommerce has grown from 2 to 11 employees over the past 2 years, we’ve made 63 releases, closed 3735 Github issues (out of 3779), and solved over 30k support tickets. Since…
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How’s WP Job Manager doing?
WP Job Manager is one of my side projects which I’m having a lot of fun with at the moment. This week the plugin passed 20,000 downloads which is a nice milestone to reach – so far I’ve done little marketing and just built it up slowly, so it’s great to see it growing in…
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Taking part in #WTBFB
This month I’ll be taking part in a friendly internal competition at Woothemes; the “Blogging for Benjamin” competition ran by our very own Daniel Espinoza.
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Download Monitor, Legacy Importer & Page Addon officially released
Today I finally finished up and deployed “version 1” of the Download Monitor plugin. This is more of a re-release than an update, hence the version reset (which should also prevent automatic updates!). If you want to update from a legacy version of Download Monitor, after installing the new version you’ll need to also install…
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A New Job Board Plugin for WordPress
I’ve just made a new plugin available (on github) that I’ve been working on to allow you to add and manage job listings on your WP site. It’s name; WP Job Manager. Features Allows admin to create job listings Frontend submission form supporting guests and registered users Jobs can be set to expire after X days…
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Download Monitor Legacy Importer (beta)
As mentioned in my previous post, the new Download Monitor plugin will be making full use of custom post types making legacy data unusable. To help with this I’ve created a new Legacy Importer plugin which will: Find old downloads/meta/tags/categories Convert them to the new format If left enabled, map shortcodes referencing the legacy IDs…
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The New WordPress Download Monitor Plugin
A few months back I announced that the Download Monitor plugin was no longer being maintained. Why? Several reasons really: Dealing with daily support emails caused a massive headache Some of the code was embarrassing, and the plugin badly needed a rewrite.. ..but due to legacy this would have been messy and difficult The donation…