A roundup…
A drop in a Woo devs business
A bit of an interesting read from Rodolfo at Business Bloomer over on the WPMinute. Although at first glance I thought the title Lessons Learned After 37% Drop in WooCommerce Dev Business made me think it was a projection of the industry, but reading through it he gives the reasons this all came to be. It is a bit subjective as it is the experience of one developer, but also has some good food for thought. And his share on X didn’t result in any conversation of others seeing this issue, which doesn’t really mean a lot.
Although I will admit I don’t think even the concept of being concerned about Automattic selling Woo is anything we should be worrying about at all. But he shared some good lessons he has experienced and I am sure there are others that can relate. Though I have heard quite the opposite from most who we have had on the show.
Open source, Onchain – Frames bounties for WordPress and WooCommerce
Now I am going to drop this one in as our host Dave Lockie shared it on X. I’m not really clear on the context of it, but I am going to share this with you from Dave’s google doc. He explains part of his role at Woo and Automattic is to explore how our two worlds can combine for the benefit of creators who use the tools we make. Today I’m excited to announce some grants available for Frames builders that can help us explore this intersection.
He then shares examples of how WordPress and Woo users can use frames for fun and profit such as minting WordPress posts as NFTs, selling/pre-ordering a Woo product, adding comments to a WP post and Using gating to unlock exclusive content. Then the doc gets into more stuff around what he is doing. So if you see where this is going, it might be worth checking out.
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What’s up with the interactivity API
Quick note. Monday I am having a couple of devs from Automattic on a show discussing the interactivity API and what that means to Woo and WordPress. If you have a question you would like for me to ask them, please find a link in the show notes at dothewoo.io or find me some other way.
Challenges in outsourcing, deep thoughts on Woo
One of the new additions to WooBits is something I am going to call, Deep Thoughts on Woo. Now this may be a misleading title, but I’m sticking with it. What is it you may ask? Well, every week I have a ton of things swirling in my brain due to stuff on see on posts, social or maybe even hear in a podcast. A topic that, well appears way too many times for me. And what I want to do with that topic is throw it out there at you, the listeners, and have you leave me an audio of a short tip or insight on the topic.
This week it is outsourcing. I mean, I always see discussions, questions and other content around it, but it occurred to me that instead of challenges around general outsourcing, are there specific tips when outsourcing a developer or designer for a WooCommerce build. What do you think? If I get enough of these in a weeks time, I will do an episode about it, replaying the audios submitted. If I get just one or two, I’ll save them for the next WooBits. If I get none, I’ll still wonder about it.
