WooCommerce joins Automattic – The next wave of ecommerce?

WooComerce

Today, you all may hear of the big news in WordPress community from WooCommerce acquisition by Automatic, the parent company behind WordPress. The news was officially announced by WooThemes co-founders, Mark and Magnus and from Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg. Big congratulation to WooThemes team with their new chapter.

From WordPress user’s perspective as well as a web developer, we might have concern how this acquisition will impact the future of WooCommerce plugin and WordPress community. Would it remain community-oriented and free as before? Or even any change to the name WooCommerce under the new home?

It is too early to predict specific changes in WooCommerce roadmap in coming months and years. However, in the short term, a few things have been clarified by Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg.
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Which is the Best eCommerce Plugin for WordPress?

If you want to start selling products on your existing WordPress site, or you are about to build an eCommerce store from scratch, then today’s post discussing the best eCommerce plugins for WordPress is just for you.

Before we get started, it’s important to know that there is no single best WordPress eCommerce plugin. Every store will have different needs and every store manager will have a preferred way of working. So while it is possible to make general recommendations, the features required by your store will largely dictate which the best plugin is for you.

Hopefully this guide will steer you in the right direction, and then after that you will have to do a bit of self-directed research before making a final decision. Continue

25 Powerful eCommerce WordPress Themes

For many years we have been using WordPress to power personal blogs, portfolio sites, news sites and the like. However, WordPress has so much more to offer!

For example, it can be used while building an eCommerce site. Of course, you’ll also need a WordPress eCommerce plugin to make it work, but there are a lot of them on the net. If to speak about the most popular eCommerce plugins for WordPress, these are WooCommerce and Jigoshop. Both are well trusted and reliable. However, WooCommerce has a longer history than JigoShop, so it should come as no surprise that it has been downloaded more times than JigoShop, but in general, these are two very similar solutions. What’s also important to mention is that both of them are open source and therefore free. Continue

7 WordPress Trends 2017 You Have To Know!

WordPress is an incredible Content Management System for website content creation and design, cornering over 59% of the market share. 14 years after its initial release, WordPress continues to get better and better with age. What we are doing here is providing you top 7 WordPress trends 2017 you have to know to give you what need to know when building a new WordPress website this year. Are you ready? Now, let’s get started! Continue

Greatest Paid Membership WordPress Themes

Greatest Paid Membership WordPress Themes

A professional-looking web presence has become indispensable for online businesses to compete in the marketplace. But It is not easy to find out the most suitable theme for your web! Today, I’ll present to you a collection of the best paid Membership WordPress Themes. These themes are specially built for creating membership blogs and websites. Using these themes, you can customize the membership blog, sell your book online, sell some kind of software and whatever you want. Continue

WordPress Competitors – What Are They?

WordPress-competitors

Starting in 2003, WordPress is a project of a Britisher – Mike Little and an American – Matt Mullenweg to continue the blogging software b2/cafelog’ s success.The thing made WordPress totally different from the other existing blogging tools at the time was that users and developers could extend functionalities by writing their own plugins and sharing with the rest of community. This open-source property has attracted users so far. Nearly 40% of all websites now are using WordPress, changing it into the largest self-hosted blogging platform in the world. Continue

100+ Awesome Free Icons Sets

Whenever you’re building a new blog, a new app or any website, you are surely in need of great icons to attract users. Because they are not only beautiful, simple but also contain information into a tiny space. Each icon of each set is unique, from which you can give a different voice, different meaning to a design.

Today, I’m glad to introduce you a collection of great icon sets. More interestingly, they are all FREE. Hopefully, you’ll find some sets that could be useful for your projects. Cheers!

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Leading E-commerce Website Design Trend In 2016

From its capacity to produce, to its potential to advertise, and to the possibilities it leverages to sell products, e-commerce websites have taken the industry to a macro level. The innovative changes that shopping sites are adopting, have given a major push to the designing also. Changes have also been brought to the content, development, meaning and purpose of developing the site, but this piece of content is going to focus tenderly on the leading e-commerce website design trends.

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A Detailed Guide to Theming WooCommerce For WordPress

WooCommerce is one of the most popular and preferred ecommerce solution available on the internet today that powers more than 30% of the online store and has been downloaded 10,126, 999 times.
The platform allows you to convert your WordPress website into a complete and feature-rich e-commerce store. WooCommerce platform has been designed to render you complete control to sell anything through a WordPress powered website.

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Top 10 Multipurpose WordPress Themes for Every Web Design Whim

This blog post includes a collection of the most advanced multipurpose WordPress themes.

Let’s start by answering simple questions and then make a quick recap of the advantages of each theme.

What are multipurpose themes and who can benefit from their usage?

As for the author of this article, she believes that multipurpose themes are a great step forward in web design and development. Their price is almost the same as the price of a regular theme designed for one particular business niche. However, when purchasing a multipurpose theme you get much more. Of course, different providers pack their themes with different sets of features, but the fact that you can build absolutely anything with these kinds of templates stays constant. As a rule, multipurpose themes include multiple layouts from which you can choose. They can vary from a simple personal page to a fully functional e-Commerce store. Multi-purpose themes are easy to customize and suitable for both professionals and newbies in web design. Actually, when buying a multipurpose theme you get access to numerous designs, plugins and extensions. It’s a kind of construction set you can play with until you attain the desired effect. And what is even better, when your design becomes outdated, you can always refresh it with the help of another pre-designed page available in your package. This is a great way to keep your website up to date, or just constantly improve it, by adding more features, plugins, using more shortcodes and other stuff delivered with your multipurpose theme. Continue

DesignWall Giving Awesome Giveaway – Survey Winner Announcement

DW Survey Giveaway

Thank You to Everyone Who Entered!

Last month, we launched a short survey calling for feedback and suggestion to improve our products and service. Our ultimate goal is to decide what types of features are built next, so we can better meet your need.

We had nearly 100 feedback entries in the first two days after we started the survey. A big motivation to our team indeed! We expect to hear many comments from you, both old and new members, but did not foresee such an incredible number of submissions that fast!

Great thanks to you all for your feature request and ideas. Your valuable inputs help us shape the upcoming improvements in a more solid way.

What we’re currently working on

Deciding what new possible features (or updates to existing features) isn’t easy, as a single change need line up with the big-picture of the whole theme or plugin. Continue

[Video] A sneak peek of DW Store – Multipurpose WooCommerce theme

I am super excited to introduce the first sneak peek of our upcoming multi-purpose WooCommerce theme DW Store. Our ultimate goal is to make it easy for you to build and manage your online store.

Thanks to valuable suggestions and feedbacks from our recent survey, we have chance to start implementing incremental improvements in this theme.

Easy way to create a noteworthy store

Starting with WooCommerce core functionalities, DW Store lets you showcase your products in the most powerful way whether you want to create tech, fashion, pharma, kid or gift stores. Simply sell with one of 6-in-1 predefined styles (TechStore, FashionStore, PharmaStore, KidStore, GiftStore, MarketStore). These stunning styles are all mobile-optimized to help you draw customers in no matter what mobile devices they use.

A robust theme option panel will give you full control over essential elements. Flexible header, color, font etc., are all customisable in an intuitive way. Just a few clicks away to get those tweaks done. I will walk you through more details on these theme options once the DW Store goes live. Continue

All New DW BrickStore – Responsive WooCommerce theme

UPDATE July 23, 2015: [New features] DW BrickStore blog and product pages now have infinite scroll feature added.

UPDATE July 16, 2015: DW BrickStore update version 1.0.1 has just been released, with 3 new page layouts added: classic homepage variant #3, Lookbook and Typography.

Changelog detailshttp://bit.ly/1TO3Siw

Today we’re proud to announce DW BrickStore, a brand new eCommerce theme to join our portfolio. DW BrickStore is a lightweight, flexible premium WooCommerce theme.

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