I’d like to close with a massive thank you to all of our contributors, users, supporters, and the WordPress community as a whole — Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

#10 – Local Pickup Shipping Method

This simple plugin adds a free, local pickup option to your shipping methods. Simple, but useful. Garmantech have also made a ‘delivery’ shipping option simular to the built in flat-rates here.

Download Author: Garmantech

#9 – DropDown cart widget

This plugin quite simply adds a new cart widget which, unlike the built in cart, drops down when clicked to reveal the cart contents.

This is a good space-saver if you have a long sidebar, and it’s easy to implement.

Download Author: Andrew Benbow

#8 – WooCommerce Exporter

This free plugin lets you export your products into a CSV file. A handy thing to have at your disposal should you want your data in CSV format, potentially for re-importing using Visser’s Product Importer Deluxe.

Download Author: Visser Labs

#7 – WC All in one SEO Pack

Another from Visser Labs, this plugin adds compatibility for the All In One SEO Pack plugin to WooCommerce. Once installed it shows the Title/Meta options in a write panel on the edit product screen.

Download Author: Visser Labs

#6 – Pronamic iDEAL

The Pronamic iDEAL plugin allows you to easily offer the iDEAL payment method within your WordPress website.

Available for free via WordPress.org, the Pronamic iDeal plugin works with WooCommerce, Gravity Forms and Shopp supporting several iDeal variants, including ING, Rabobank, Mollie, and ANB AMRO.

Dutch users may also appreciate their NL translation for WooCommerce, also available on WordPress.org.

Download Author: Pronamic

#5 – Clean Cut

Clean Cut is a clean, minimal WooCommerce theme available on ThemeForest. As you can see from the demo, the theme has a large slider containing featured products and a flexible, widgetized homepage.

Purchase Author: obox

#4 – Piggy

Piggy is a great little plugin/web-app which works on iOS and Android and is used to display sale stats and orders from your store.

It supports the best WP eCommerce plugins, including WooCommerce of course, and provides you with push notifications for new orders, and gives you access to all kinds of data such as live sales stats and sales forecasts.

Download Author: Brave New Code

#3 – WP Sharp

WP Sharp is a highly customisable corporate/portfolio style theme with support for WooCommerce and BBPress baked in. There are lots of options built into this theme such as SEO, layout options and a homepage slider. The product pages themselves also look very clean.

Purchase Author: Primathemes

#2 – WooCommerce Admin Bar Addition

The WooCommerce admin bar plugin adds a new menu to the WordPress Admin Bar with links to all of the WooCommerce settings pages. It also adds some useful links to other WooCommerce resources, for example, the user guide and codex.

This plugin is a great timesaver if you frequently visit the WooCommerce admin pages, and is freely available from WordPress.org.

Download Author: David Decker

#1 – Abundance

Abundance is a WooCommerce theme created by Kriesi which is available from Themeforest.

The theme has an plethora of features, layout options, and colour variations. The built in mega-menu is a particular highlight of this theme; store owners may find this useful if they have many product categories. Check out the demo here.

We’re really happy that Kriesi (the first Themeforest author to sell $1 million worth of items) has chosen WooCommerce to power his theme – I think that proves we’re doing a good job

Purchase Author: Kriesi

The code below can be added as a page template in your theme. Once added to your template, just create a page in WordPress admin and assign it the “Stock Report” page template.

Theres a check at the top of the page to only let admin users in, and when viewed the page will give you a simple list of products, SKU’s and stock levels which you can then print out.

I hope you find it useful

define( WP_DEBUG_LOG, true );

This is very handy when debugging plugin errors, especially hidden ones like those which occur on plugin activation.

The code below can be added as a page template in your theme. Once added to your template, just create a page in WordPress admin and assign it the “Print processing orders” page template.

Theres a check at the top of the page to only let admin users in, and when viewed the page will give you a nice list of processing orders which you can then print out.

WooCommerce is an open source eCommerce plugin for WordPress with loads of cool features. Adding products, managing orders, setting up tax and shipping rates – WooCommerce makes it easy.

Whilst developing WooCommerce we focused on extending core WordPress functionality and keeping the UI consistant; this gives you an simple, easy to use, familiar admin interface which is a joy to use.

We made full use of WordPress custom post types, post type archives, and custom taxonomies making it both extendable and easy to theme. Theme developers will be relieved by its simplicity – after using several other eCommerce plugins in the past I know that it will be a breath of fresh air to many.

Alongside the release of the WooCommerce plugin we’ve also released three new themes (WooStore, Coquette and Wootique) as well as several child themes and extensions.

WooTique is our free WooCommerce theme

You can read more about WooCommerce on the WooThemes site. Be sure to check out WooCommerce on WordPress.org, and if your a developer (or a translator) why not say hi on Github and contribute to the project

At WooThemes I’ve been busy working in the new ‘WooLabs’ division alongside my pal James Koster. In the WooLabs we’re focusing on application style themes (like SupportPress), plugins (our nearly complete Mighty Menus plugin) and the highly anticipated WooCommerce plugin and themes.

So far I’m really enjoying my new role at Woo, and I’m ecstatic that they gave me the opportunity to work with them.

I’ll leave you with this teaser…looking forward to tuesday!

$comments = get_comments( array( 'number' => 5, 'status' => 'approve', 'post_status' => 'publish', 'post_type' => 'product' ) );

Very handy!

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Since then I’ve updated the plugin to version 2.3 with some cool new features (AJAX login for instance) and given it a new admin panel. You can also now find the project on GitHub if you’d like to contribute.