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

Version 2.1 2020-01-09

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

Version 2.2. 2020-10-06

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

Version 2.3 2020-11-19

  • NEW: Do the Woo 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 2.4 2021-1-30

  • NEW: Redesign of homepage
  • NEW: Redesign of sponsor page
  • NEW: Announced the WooCommerce Builder Community Events
  • NEW: Added hosts Zach Stepek and Ronald Gijsel to the Woo team
  • NEW: Redesign of Join Do the Woo Friends page

Version 2.5 2021-2-19

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

Version 2.6 2021-3-23

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

Version 2.7 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: Woo News now a weekly update more centered on WP and Woo core and other Woo news

Version 2.8 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 WooCommerce tutorial posts from BobWP to Do the Woo
  • 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 of Do the Woo
  • NEW: Redesign of the Do the Woo 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
  • NEW: Added new series, Woo BuilderStories
  • NEW: Abha Thakor joins as host of Do the Woo
  • NEW: Tammie Lister joins the Woo Roundtable
  • NEW: Marcus Burnette joins as co-host of Do the Woo
  • NEW: Till Kruss and Carl Alexander join as co-hosts of Woo DevChat
  • 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 DTW 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)
  • BUGFIX: Removed Social Warfare plugin due to Beaver Builder conflicts

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 in Woo are now WooDev Profiles, under the DevLife Snippets
  • BUGFIX: Removed all Woo 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 of Do the Woo

Version 3.7 2023-7-7

  • NEW: Tammie Lister returns to the Do the Woo team as a host
  • NEW: Katie Keith joins the Do the Woo team as host
  • UPDATED: Plans are underway for release of Do the Woo 4.0

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 from DotheWoo.io

Version 3.8 2024-3-19

  • NEW: Migrated Do the Woo site to WordPress.com (soft launch of 4.0)
  • NEW: Total redesign of Do the Woo 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: Do the Woo 4.0 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 Do the Woo 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: Do the Woo is now on the Fediverse
  • UPDATED: Roadmap coming for homepage redesign, a few new pages and AI search

Version 4.2 2025-01-17

Version 5.0 2025-02-20

  • NEW: Homepage redesign to reflect our multi-media channel of shows
  • NEW: Cami MacNamara joins the Do the Woo 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, Do the Woo Hooks
  • NEW: Our booking pages are now on the site but not publicly listed
  • FIXED: The Do the Woo 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 DTW as a Community Friend as changed to a single option of 1 year at $500, with no auto-renews.

Version 5.1 2025-03-07

  • NEW: Content Sparks show
  • NEW: Rae Morey joins the Do the Woo hosting team as co-host of the show, Content Sparks
  • NEW: Christian Taylor joins the Do the Woo hosting team as co-host of the show, Content Sparks
  • NEW: Derek Hanson joins the Do the Woo hosting team as co-host of the show, Content Sparks
  • NEW: Michelle Frechette joins the Do the Woo hosting team as co-host of the show, WordPress Invent 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 6.0 2025-06-06

  • NEW: Brand change from Do the Woo to OpenChannels.fm
  • NEW: Do the Woo is now a show
  • 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 6.0.1 2025-6-15

  • UPDATED: Rebrand far from over

Version 6.0.2 2025-10-20

  • UPDATED: Still working on the rebrand

Version 7.0 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
  • 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 7.1 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 fit in the other three
  • NEW: Created a new YouTube Channel to reflect our rebranding
  • NEW: Added a page for Do the Woo live updates
  • NEW: Added Open Clips, short video outtakes from previous episodes
  • UPDATED: Moved our daily email updates on posts and episodes to a weekly roundup that will go out on Mondays
  • FIXED: We are now including recognition of all sponsors in individual episodes and posts
  • FIXED: Instead of an RSS update going out to subscribers as stuff is published, created Open Channels Rewind, a Friday recap.