As a steadfast partner in your online business journey, O'Brien Media is committed to keeping you in the loop with the latest developments from the world of WooCommerce. Today, we bring an important update directly from the WooCommerce team that may affect many of our clients and readers. A Brief Change in Schedule The eagerly anticipated WooCommerce 8.8, initially slated for release on Tuesday,...

The popular e-commerce platform WooCommerce released version 7.2.0 this week with lots of new features and improvements for small businesses. Let's take a look at some of the most exciting changes in this latest release! New features in WooCommerce WooCommerce recently released a list of new features that has made shopping online even easier and more fun! With these new features, users are able...

If you're like most ecommerce managers, you're always on the lookout for new and better payment gateways. After all, the success of your business depends on providing a smooth and user-friendly checkout experience for your customers. So which payment gateways are the best? We've done the research so you don't have to! Keep reading to find out our top picks for 2022. 1. Mollie Mollie is one of the...

WooCommerce has announced on its developer blog that there is a critical vulnerability in multiple versions of WooCommerce. This blog post will highlight what the vulnerability is and what this means for you going forward. What has happened and how does it affect you? There has been a security vulnerability found in WooCommerce and WooCommerce Blocks. The security vulnerability allows for data...

In November of 2020, we shared an advisory for WooCommerce store owners encouraging them to update to the latest version of WooCommerce due to a vulnerability the WooCommerce team had recently addressed in the account creation flow. The WooCommerce core team discovered this vulnerability as a result of an attack from a bot that was creating spam orders and, by way of the aforementioned...