For context: Do the Woo was rebranded to Open Channels FM in June, 2025.

Version 1.0 2016-03-09

  • NEW: Do the Woo podcast released
  • NEW: Hosted by BobWP
  • NEW: Guests from the WooCommerce space

NOTE: 6 months after starting Do the Woo it was changed to the WPeCommerce Show

Version 2.0 2018-01-08

  • NEW: Do the Woo podcast returns after changing to WP eCommerce Show in Sept. 2016
  • NEW: Episode 0 of the podcast is live
  • BUGFIX: Revert to WooCommerce-focused content

Version 2.0.1 2018-04-11

  • BUGFIX: Added co-host Brad Williams because listeners didn’t want to hear just BobWP

Version 2.0.2 2018-09-27

  • BUGFIX: Sponsorships added
  • FIXES: Artwork updated

Version 2.3 2020-01-09

  • NEW: BobWP.com is now this site
  • NEW: Weekly podcast
  • NEW: Jonathan Wold and Mendel Kurland join as co-hosts
  • NEW: Intro music
  • NEW: News podcast added
  • NEW: Friends of Woo added
  • FIXES: Formatted transcripts added for accessibility

Version 2.4 2020-10-06

  • NEW: New domain, DotheWoo.io
  • NEW: New site design
  • NEW: Add two podcast episodes monthly called Perspectives
  • NEW: Job Listings
  • NEW: Events
  • NEW: News
  • NEW: Listings of new products called Product Snapshot
  • NEW: Individual level for Friends
  • FIXES: Additional benefits for Friends
  • BUGFIX: Bringing back Profiles in Woo

Version 2.5 2020-11-19

  • NEW: Builder Blog
  • NEW: WooCommerce Builder Global Meetup
  • NEW: Job listings available for purchase
  • BUGFIX: New product and service news returned to single news posts
  • FIXES: Removed Product Snapshots
  • BUGFIX: Switched from Google Analytics to Fathom

Version 2.6 2021-1-30

  • NEW: Redesign of homepage
  • NEW: Redesign of sponsor page
  • NEW: Added hosts Zach Stepek and Ronald Gijsel to the hosting team
  • NEW: Redesign of Friends page

Version 2.6.1 2021-2-19

  • FIXES: Streamlined main navigation
  • FIXES: Reduced size of page and post hero
  • BUGFIX: Sponsorship restructured

Version 2.7 2021-3-23

  • UPDATED: Launched the WooCommerce Builder Community Live Events on Meetup and the podcast
  • UPDATED: Designed new event page
  • NEW: Added Roundtable Panelists Robert Jacobi and Robbie Adair
  • NEW: Noelle Steegs joins the podcast host team
  • NEW: Added 12 Pod Friends for 1 year sponsorship and support

Version 2.8 2021-5-3

  • NEW: Anna Maria Radu joins the podcast host team
  • NEW: Maja Loncar and Robbie Adair joins the event co-organizer team and host BizChat
  • FIXES: Removed job listings
  • UPDATED: Our news is now a weekly update more centered expanding into WordPress and open source

Version 2.8.1 2021-6-21

  • FIXES: Live events moved to podcast
  • BUGFIX: Deleted all Facebook accounts

Version 2.9 2021-7-10

  • NEW: Cleaned up and migrated tutorial posts from BobWP
  • FIXES: Pairing up co-hosts with each other
  • BUGFIX: Reducing BobWP regularly scheduled co-hosting spots to one or two per month

Version 3.0 2021-11-1

  • NEW: Rebrand
  • NEW: Redesign of the site
  • FIXES: Hired a professional agency, WedDevStudios, to do all the work
  • FIXES: Got rid of the old BobWP brand
  • FIXES: Changed the color palette
  • FIXES: A better looking logo
  • BUGFIX: Streamlined a lot of the backend

Version 3.1 2022-1-17

  • NEW: Added new series, Woo Visions
  • NEW: Added new series, Woo DevChat and Till Kruss and Carl Alexander join as co-hosts
  • NEW: Added new series, Woo BuilderStories
  • NEW: Abha Thakor joins as host
  • NEW: Tammie Lister joins the Roundtable
  • NEW: Marcus Burnette joins as co-host
  • UPDATED: WooBits, moving from new centric to more general, random WooCommerce weekly

Version 3.2 2022-2-15

  • NEW: Setup of donation page for transcript support
  • FIXES: Phased out Community and Builder Friends
  • FIXES: Replaced Friend CTA with subscriber CTA

Version 3.2.1 2022-3-18

  • BUGFIX: Removed 4 plugins that just didn’t need to be there

Version 3.3 2022-4-5

  • NEW: Woo BuilderBytes launched
  • NEW: Guest Posts opens
  • NEW: Call for contributors
  • UPDATED: Sponsors account pages
  • UPDATED: Homepage layout
  • UPDATED: Archive page layout
  • UPDATED: Footer menu
  • FIXES: Streamlined sponsor partnership
  • FIXES: Working on episodes being 35 minutes max of conversation
  • FIXES: Moved transcript out of widget into post content
  • BUGFIX: Keeping hour limit on Woo DevChat (if I can)

Version 3.4 2022-4-20

  • NEW: DevLife Snippets

Version 3.5 2022-6-17

  • NEW: Personal project, new blog at BobWP.com
  • UPDATED: Profiles are now under the DevLife Snippets
  • BUGFIX: Removed all tutorials from the blog to focus more on the builder community

Version 3.6 2022-7-26

  • NEW: Strategic meeting held for the next big phase

Version 3.7 2023-7-7

  • NEW: Tammie Lister returns as a host
  • NEW: Katie Keith joins team as host
  • UPDATED: Plans are underway for release of v4.0

Version 3.7.1 2023-8-1

  • NEW: Moved BobWP.com to WordPress.com
  • UPDATED: Using BobWP.com to create other WordPress content and repurposing content

Version 3.8 2024-3-19

  • NEW: Migrated to WordPress.com (soft launch of 4.0)
  • NEW: Total redesign of thanks to the Special Projects Team at Automattic and Matt Mullenweg
  • NEW: Finalized new hosts: Adam Weeks, Anne Mieke Bovelett, Birgit Olzem, Courtney Robertson, Devin Maelztri, and Emma Young
  • UPDATED: Finalized and finished branding the following shows: All Things WordPress and WooCommerce, Community Voices WordPress Around the World, Inside Woo, Open Talk on Open Source, The WordPress Way, Woo AgencyChat, Woo BizChat, Woo DevChat, Woo ProductChat and WordPress Event Talk
  • FIXED: All episodes are now branded under specific shows and the design focuses on making it easier for the listener to find the shows they want to listen to
  • BUGFIX: Created single feeds for each show

Version 4.0 2024-06-14

  • NEW: v4.0 final launch takes place at WordCamp Europe 2024 in Torino, Italy
  • NEW: A map with all of our guests, sponsors and hosts
  • NEW: Profiles for all hosts
  • NEW: Landing pages for each specific show
  • NEW: The new show Scaling Enterprise, WordPress and OSS was launched with returning host Brad Williams, and new hosts Karim Marucchi and Tom Willmot, joining the hosting team.
  • NEW: Listeners now have the opportunity to support specific shows and the monies will go directly the the hosts of that show or donated to a fund in the WordPress space to help support travel and contributions.
  • UPDATED: Finalized design and layout, including site optimization and lifetime hosting on WordPress.com
  • FIXED: Changes that occurred during the migration of the site
  • FIXED: Easier search and subscribing to specific shows
  • FIXED: Updated taxonomies
  • FIXED: Minor tweaks
  • BUGFIX: The show WooBits is now BobWP on Community

Version 4.1 2024-10-27

  • NEW: Brought back the blog, and will be using it as we do with the podcast, a blog for the community, by the community
  • NEW: On the Fediverse
  • UPDATED: Roadmap coming for homepage redesign, a few new pages and AI search

Version 4.2 2025-01-17

  • NEW: Open Web Conversations Show
  • NEW: WP Behind the Build Show
  • NEW: WP Agency Tracks Show
  • NEW: DevPulse Show
  • NEW: Mark Westguard joins as host
  • NEW: Matthias Pfefferle joins as host
  • DELETED: All Things WordPress and Woo Show
  • UPDATED: Katie Keith moved to co-host of Woo ProductChat
  • UPDATED: Marcus Burnette moved to host WP Agency Tracks

Version 4.3 2025-02-20

  • NEW: Homepage redesign to reflect our multi-media channel of shows
  • NEW: Cami MacNamara joins the team as a co-host for the WP Agency Tracks show
  • NEW: Added video to our podcasts in addition to our audio
  • NEW: Launch of the new newsletter
  • NEW: Our booking pages are now on the site but not publicly listed
  • FIXED: The news page
  • BUGFIX: We now have a maximum of six sponsors at any given time
  • UPDATED: Community Friends with two new supporters, Elementor and Progress Planner Pro
  • UPDATED: The footer to offer more options to link to our various pages
  • UPDATED: The option to support as a Community Friend as changed to a single option of 1 year at $500, with no auto-renews.

Version 4.4 2025-03-07

  • NEW: Content Sparks show
  • NEW: Rae Morey joins the hosting team as co-host of the show, Content Sparks
  • NEW: Christian Taylor joins the hosting team as co-host of the show, Content Sparks
  • NEW: Derek Hanson joins the hosting team as co-host of the show, Content Sparks
  • NEW: Michelle Frechette joins the hosting team as co-host of the show, WordPress Event Talks
  • NEW: Started LinkedIn newsletter, DTW Release Notes
  • FIXED: On the community friends page separated the paid community friends from our hosts businesses
  • UPDATED: Homepage with categorizing the shows

Version 4.5 2025-06-06

  • NEW: Brand change from Do the Woo to OpenChannels.fm
  • NEW: Do the Woo is now its own channel
  • NEW: Under a new restructuring, the shows are now Open Web Conversations, Open Source Reach, Content Sparks, WP Voices and Do the Woo
  • NEW: Under the show Open Web Conversation are the series Federated Flow, Emerging Tech, The Founders and DevPulse, Beyond the Stack
  • NEW: Under the show Open Source Reach are the series Scaling Enterprise OSS, Open Talk Event, Open Accessibility Insights and BobWP Unplugged
  • NEW: Under the show Content Sparks are the series Upload Worthy, Publishing Flow, Media Playbook
  • NEW: Under the show Do the Woo are the series Inside Woo, Woo Product Chat, Woo Dev Chat and Woo Agency Chat
  • NEW: Under the show WP Voices are the series The WordPress Way, Multisite Unpacked, WP Agency Tracks and WP Behind the Builds
  • FIXED: Restructured exist shows into 5 shows and numerous series to reflect the topics and conversations on OpenChannels.fm
  • UPDATED: The site to reflect the restructure and rebrand

Version 4.5.1 2025-6-15

  • UPDATED: Rebrand far from over

Version 4.5.2 2025-10-20

  • UPDATED: Still working on the rebrand

Version 4.6 2026-1-20

  • NEW: Changed the structure from Version 6.0 to three channels: Open Makers, Open Web Conversations and Do the Woo.
  • NEW: Brought Do the Woo back as a separate podcast and site with continuing hosts Katie Keith and James Kemp. No longer under the Open Channels FM umbrella.
  • NEW: Blog posts called Creator Meanderings from the founder
  • NEW: Added three new plugins: MailPoet, Independent Analytics Pro and Internet Archive Wayback Machine Link Fixer.
  • NEW: Podcaster Nathan Wrigley joins the hosting team to talk sh*t with BobWP
  • UPDATED: Changed site name from OpenChannel.fm to Open Channels FM
  • UPDATED: The homepage to reflect our newest structure
  • UPDATED: Podcast covers for our new site name and all three channels
  • UPDATED: Redid over 2000 versions of featured images, repeatedly
  • UPDATED: Reorganized the sidebar on episode posts to show subscriber buttons, hosts names, tags and sponsors
  • UPDATED: Reorganized all content such as moving episodes under old, existing and series to one of our three channels.
  • UPDATED: Removed our supporter options and no longer accepting supporters as we reevaluate our sponsorships
  • UPDATED: Our sponsorship page to better reflect our model going into 2026
  • FIXED: Removed all music background and creating shorter sponsors intros
  • FIXED: updated and added new tags for better organization
  • FIXED: removed featured images from all archive pages for cleaner discovery
  • FIXED: removed episode numbers from featured images and they are now meta that shows in the latest episode on the homepage and all single episode posts
  • FIXED: Removed past sponsor CTA’s and logos
  • FIXED: A lot of small things that I can neither remember or will not
  • BUGFIX: Bob will be on more podcasts (not sure if that is a bugfix)

Version 4.7 2026-3-6

  • NEW: Started our new newsletter, BackTalk, that will go out every Friday
  • NEW: Added a fourth channel, Channel 4, as our catch-all podcast for episodes that don’t know where to go
  • NEW: Created a new YouTube Channel, again, to reflect our rebranding
  • NEW: Added a page for live updates
  • NEW: Added Open Clips, short video outtakes from previous episodes because someone said it’s a thing
  • FIXED: We are now including recognition of all sponsors in individual episodes and posts because that is just a good thing to do
  • FIXED: Instead of an RSS update going out to subscribers as stuff is published, created Open Channels Rewind, a Friday recap.

Version 4.7.1 2026-4-9

  • BUGFIX: Realized my version numbers were kind of screwy and a mess. Didn’t make a lot of sense so I think I fixed it.

Version 4.8 2026-6-16

  • NEW: Bob crawls out of the production room and has started both a regular commentary on the blog as well as a weekly series, or somewhat weekly, called Open Tabs.
  • NEW: Added “Questions Answered in the Episode” to our episode show notes.
  • NEW: Do the Woo podcast is now a standalone podcast and not part of the Open Channels network. Bob Dunn is still the independent owner of Do the Woo. It just makes. more sense.
  • NEW: Added an option to keep updated on Open Channels FM so you can make sure Bob and Robert are paying attention.
  • UPDATED: Redesigned homepage and hit 100 page revisions since Decemeber 21, 2024
  • UPDATED: On our archive and channel pages we have moved from “grid” to “list” layout. I’m so over grids and really, that’s how episodes are listed on pod apps
  • FIXED: Out of redundacy we have stopped our weekly newsletter BackTalk and it will now remain as a weekly blog post. Will continue to send out Open Channels Rewind to subscribers who want a week recap.
  • FIXED: Have been working to make sure the site is LLM friendly. the process is not quite completed. Gotta do what you gotta do, which includes optimization in place with our LLMs.txt file and specific schemas for better discovery
  • BUGFIX: Asked Claude to make our sponsor deck look better and easier to understand, since Bob couldn’t do it.

Version 4.9 2026-7-1

  • NEW: Automattic joins us as a sponsor
  • NEW: InMotion joins us as a sponsor
  • UPDATED: Renamed our weekly post “BackTalk” to “Signal”

Version 5.0 2026-9-9

  • NEW: Open Channels News launched July 27th, 2026, with host Robert Jacobi. Open source news streamed 2-4 days a week.
  • NEW: Launched Open Signal, podcast/channel #5, commentaries hosted by our founder, Bob Dunn
  • NEW: Open Channels FM Site Chat. Installed Jetpack Site Chat, Now you can ask anything across all our episodes, blog posts and pages. You will find the AI stat icon in the lower left-side.
  • NEW: Open Source Champions, an added support for listeners to be able to support us and open source with profiles
  • NEW: Exclusive profiles for our sponsors
  • NEW: Adding series to four of our podcasts for their duration
  • NEW: Added latest news feature to the homepage
  • UPDATE: Starting a shift in content toward broader conversations. Philosophy, trends, and the bigger picture of what’s happening in open source and the open web today and in the future
  • UPDATED: Added Jetpack AI Search for a more powerful site search.
  • UPDATED: Omnisend continues as a sponsor for the third year
  • UPDATED: A refocus of our YouTube channel dedicated to Open Channels News.
  • UPDATED: Cleaned up and simplified the main navigation
  • FIXED: A clean-up of content and images for episode and blog posts for consistency. Whew! 1,000+
  • FIXED: Did the right thing, accessibility-wise, and eliminated a lot of centered text
  • FIXED: Moved our sponsors to the top right sidebar on our episode pages

Version 5.0.1 2026-9-21

  • UPDATED: The podcast Open Makers is now archived on our site with access to all episode, but moving forward we will not be publishing new shows on it.