E-Commerce

  • Major Performance Improvements Coming to Jigoshop 2.0

    Major Performance Improvements Coming to Jigoshop 2.0

    The team behind the Jigoshop e-commerce plugin has been working on the upcoming 2.0 release for the past four months. The open source plugin was forked by WooThemes in 2011 to create the early foundation of WooCommerce and has now been downloaded nearly half a million times. If the 2.0 alpha version is any indication,…

  • WooThemes Launches Storefront, A Free WordPress Theme with WooCommerce Integration

    WooThemes Launches Storefront, A Free WordPress Theme with WooCommerce Integration

    WooCommerce recently passed five million downloads, shortly before the Woo team kicked off the first WooConf earlier this month. The conference, devoted solely to WooCommerce, sold out with 300 attendees. The plugin had 294 contributors on its most recent 2.2 release and is currently being used on 18% of all e-commerce sites on the web.…

  • WordPress E-Commerce Plugins Update to Support Stripe’s Global Expansion of Currencies

    WordPress E-Commerce Plugins Update to Support Stripe’s Global Expansion of Currencies

    Stripe announced that it now supports 139 currencies in an effort to increase patrons’ ability to sell to worldwide audiences. The update allows those using Stripe to charge customers using any of the new currencies. Stripe handles the conversion and transfers funds to its patrons in their home currencies with a 2% fee added on…

  • Cart66 Launches WordPress Managed Hosting for E-Commerce

    Cart66, previously known as PHPurchase, was one of the very first WordPress e-commerce plugins on the scene. Over the years the company has experimented with different WordPress e-commerce products but this week marks a major milestone. Cart66 Hosted has launched the first fully managed WordPress e-commerce platform. In partnership with the folks at Pagely, the…