News for February 2014
It has been a while since last main announcement, so we decided to publish one today, when WooThemes team reached a major milestone: WooCommerce 2.1 has finally been released. The new version, nicknamed "Peppy Penguin", is now available for download on WooThemes site, or from WordPress control panel and introduces  several significant changes.
What does that mean for…
Planned maintenance rescheduled to 15/02/2014
The provider of our support platform just informed us that the planned maintenance has been rescheduled to 15/02/2014. The support portal could be unavailable from about 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM GMT on the 15th of February 2014, due to a hardware upgrade. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we would like to thank you for your understanding.
Planned maintenance on our support platform on 08/02/2014
Our support platform could be unavailable from about 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM GMT on the 8th of February 2014, due to a hardware upgrade. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we would like to thank you for your understanding.
Unplanned outage has been resolved
Yesterday, 04/12/2013, at approximately 18:08 GMT, a misconfiguration of our server caused visitors to be redirected to another site. The issue has now been resolved. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
News for September 2013
Looking back, it's interesting to see how the Currency Switcher evolved from a "simple" currency conversion tool to a full multi-currency suite, with features such as Geolocation, multiple pricing, gateway management and more. Reaching such great result wasn't easy: we faced difficult decisions, dealt with "surprises" caused by incompatibilities with 3rd party solutions…
Support closure for Bank Holiday
Support dept will be closed on 3rd of June 2013, as it is a Bank Holiday in Ireland. Any query received that day will be dealt with on Tuesday, 4th of June 2013.
5 Answers to common (and difficult) interview questions
After several posts focused on product release, I finally have some time to write about life as a Developer, and to answer some questions asked by my (few) readers. The most common questions I receive are about job interviews. Competition from other Developers is getting higher every day, and Companies are, understandably, getting picky, looking for Professionals who can…
Post Scheduler and Hot Threads Plugins have been updated
As indicated in the title, the following Plugins for Vanilla Forums have been updated. Please download the latest version to make sure you get all the new features and bug fixes.
Post Scheduler Fixed bug in filtering of Scheduled Discussions. The bug allowed unauthorised Users to see Scheduled Discussions when clicking on a Category. Hot Threads Added weighing…
Apology – Content removed due to poor quality
This post is an apology to all the readers for having published a post, now removed, which was not constructive and contained poor quality content and that upset one of our readers. The purpose of this blog is sharing experiences related to Software Development, in the hope that they might be useful to fellow Developers. The removed post did little to achieve such objective,…
Why you should always add Licensing Terms to any software you distribute
I recently got involved in a debate on the topic of Software Licensing, and I found it sad that there is so little understanding, amongst Developers, of such an important topic. Together with writing complete and accurate documentation, knowing how to license your Software is one of the skills that any Developer worth his salt must have. At the same time, Users must learn…
How NOT to interact with non-technical Users
The content of this post has been removed following a complaint received by a reader. The objective of this blog is to share experience with fellow developers in a constructive way. We acknowledge that the original post didn't meet such objective, due to some non-constructive remarks that should have been avoided. We would like to extend an official apology to anyone…
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