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Patrick Rauland
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Patrick Rauland

Patrick Rauland is obsessed with WooCommerce. He has used it as a customer, worked for WooCommerce support, developed core functionality in WooCommerce itself, led three releases, and helped plan their yearly conference (WooConf). He now helps people by writing his blog, creating courses for LinkedIn Learning/Lynda, and writing books. Patrick is also the co-founder of WooSesh, an online conference for WooCommerce developers and store owners. Patrick lives in Denver, Colorado, where you can probably find him at a local coffee shop, typing away
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Staying up to date with WooCommerce and open source software

When you build your business on a particular piece of software, it’s worth the time investment to follow the development of that software and have an idea where the software is heading over the next 1–3 years.

Besides just staying up to date with software, WooCommerce is open source. That means anyone can view the code and can choose to contribute new and improved code.

Contributing code is something for developers and engineers, but staying up to date with software is useful for anyone running an e-commerce business, even if you aren’t a coder. Let’s start with the ways you can stay up to date with WooCommerce.

Follow the Developer Blog

WooCommerce actually does a really good job of communicating where the software is going through their Developer Blog: https://developer.woocommerce.com/blog/.

Figure 14.5: Woo Developer Blog

Figure 14.5: Woo Developer Blog

This blog is how I find out...

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Patrick Rauland

Patrick Rauland is obsessed with WooCommerce. He has used it as a customer, worked for WooCommerce support, developed core functionality in WooCommerce itself, led three releases, and helped plan their yearly conference (WooConf). He now helps people by writing his blog, creating courses for LinkedIn Learning/Lynda, and writing books. Patrick is also the co-founder of WooSesh, an online conference for WooCommerce developers and store owners. Patrick lives in Denver, Colorado, where you can probably find him at a local coffee shop, typing away
Read more about Patrick Rauland