Open Makers

Listen in to learn more about WordFest, tips for Woo builders and a bit of "in hindsight, we should have used WooCommerce".

Mary Job has the passion to bring WordPress and WooCommerce to Nigeria and beyond in Africa.

Listen to these tips from some WooCommerce pros for builders of products, services and websites in 2021.

A chat about bootstrapping to product sales and when you are hit with product challenges resulting from 2020.

Hear how one solopreneur is moving into the WooCommerce space and how she manages her business as a single owner.

Listen in to hear how this year's Black Friday and Cyber Sunday sales went for three popular WooCommerce plugin shops this year.

Robert Jacobi, Industry Analyst Strategist shares a very diverse background in the web space, open source and WooCommerce.

A lively discussion around who the Woo builders are and what opportunities can be found in thee ecosystem.

We have a chance to talk about her transition to Automattic, a bit around the space of subscriptions and, of course, her active role in support at WooCommerce as a Happiness Engineer.

Alex has helped dozens of WooCommerce product builders and he has seen it all. Alex has a pulse on this space and a lot of great insights to share.

When you ask a developer on the show who is passionate about what they do, well, it literally takes a deep dive into the topic. This was the case when we invited Geoff Taylor, from XWP and developer of WooGraphQL.

When you get a couple of agency owners from the WordPress space who have been around for awhile, you may or may not be surprised the deeper dive you end up with around WooCommerce, WordPress and Open Source.

We chat with Greg Lisiewski, VP and GM of Global Pay Later Products at PayPal about the industry, the benefits to consumer and merchants and the newest addition to the family at PayPal, Pay in 4. If you build sites, this is a no-brainer to educate and suggest to your clients.

The year of 2020 has been challenging and at the same time, provided a chance for some opportunities for growth in the eCommerce space. We asked Chris Lema to come back to the show and reflect on the year so far, with both perspective and insights.

Creating support, feedback channels and documentation for developers is a critical piece to the puzzle. Allen Smith has taken the role of Developer Advocate at WooCommerce with drive to bring the best to the fingertips of the dev community.

This is the last of the series where I ask my co-hosts to put on the guest hat. Today I chat with Jonathan Wold. As with my other co-hosts, Jonathan brings an amazing background to our show with his experiences in WordPress, WooCommerce and the bigger eCommerce ecosystem.

This is the second of three episodes where I ask my co-hosts to put on the guest hat. Today I chat with Mendel Kurland, who came on the show at the beginning of this year. It was the perfect opportunity to hear about the diverse background and talents that he brings to the Woo ecosystem.

Today I chat with Brad Williams, who was my first co-host and has been on the show since May 2018. It's a good time to learn more about how Brad does the Woo as well as some insights into WooCommerce and what he has learned from the builder community via the podcast.

When you chat with two Woo builders who have been in the space for sometime, the journey is filled with twists and turn.

Greg built his first WooCommerce shop in high school and ends with his role at HubSpot as the Global Manager of WordPress partnerships.

Shannon's success story in the WP space is fascinating, and her 3-year look at WooCommerce as the monster, certainly, overall, has a wonderful ending, with scattered Hallmark moments.

Having started building websites in 2002, Eric later embraced both WordPress and WooCommerce. The chat evolves into the world of introverts and moves from their to contributing to the community.

Matt has been in the WordPress space since 2005 and between his activity of developing and buying plugins, several of which are for WooCommerce, Matt brings some interesting experiences to the table.

Chris Coyier is a veteran to the web. He dabbled first with WordPress and has used it for years. WooCommerce also drifted in and out of Chris's web life.

Rian Kinney has been working with WordPress users and agencies since 2017 and recently joined a WooCommerce agency.