Well, let’s start off with something that is very, very cool. The new WooCommerce Developer Documentation that was quietly release at https://developer.woo.com/docs/. Although you may not find me hanging around there much, I will say my first thought when I landed on it was affirmation that it has been organized and redone exactly to help developer support. In fact, I have seen several comments here and there already praising it and sharing how much easier it is for them to find documentation. So congrats to the team that did all that hard work.
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I Googled Woo
I have to share this real quickly if you don’t catch it over on BobWP. I googled Woo. Just W o o. And yes, Woo.com, although at the bottom, did make the first page. That was quite impressive.
James Kemp, new product lead at Woo
Some of you likely know James Kemp from IconicWP. Well, if you are not aware, in December he took the role of Product Lead at Automattic for WooCommerce. So congrats to James and this is good news for the Woo builder community. The reason I mention this is that James has taken it on himself to be more of a public face from Woo. And by that I mean he is out in the wild sharing all sorts of cool stuff as product lead. Also there is the fact that he has been on this podcast 6 times and I feel that number will expotentially grow very soon.
With that said, follow him on Twitter if you hang there @jamesckemp as well as his new blog where he shared that he will be sharing deep dives of things they are working on at Woo. That site is jameskemp.blog
You say eCommerce and I say ecommerce
Oh, as I am doing this episode I get sidetracked from James with a poll he did on Twitter asking if you spell eCommerce with a lowercase e, uppercase C, all lowercase or hyphenated. The results with 203 votes is 39.4% eCommerce, 25.1%, ecommerce, 18.7% e-commerce and even a mention about the Ecommerce way of spelling it. Just shows that there is no standard. Myself, I have been a mix of the first two over the years, and trying to break that habit to go all lowercase. Interestingly James said at Woo they are also leaning towards lowercase. We stopped the capital M in email quite sometime ago, maybe it’s time to do the same with ecommerce. Because hey, it’s another very common word used everywhere so why not?
What’s new with Woo?
I leave you with one more nugget. I have been working on a show called Inside Woo. Some of our past episodes are under that show, but moving forward there is going to be some cool stuff. So with a little discussion over at Woo, you may be seeing a new monthly show here called “New at Woo”. More on that soon.
