Stripe is a popular payment service provider for eCommerce stores worldwide, and we’re pleased to announce we’ve shipped a major release with a multitude of new features to enhance your experience of working with WooCommerce and Stripe.

• Payment acceptance using European and other non-U.S. payment gateways
• Fully PCI compliant credit card form on your checkout
• Improved support for Apple Pay and the Web Payment Requests API
• Simpler way to connect your WooCommerce store to Stripe

To ensure this update is stable, we’ve done a lot of testing on our side: Releasing beta versions, testing with our own library of extensions and themes, and testing with the most popular extensions used alongside WooCommerce Stripe. 👏

WooCommerce Stripe 4.0 includes lots of code improvements and should be fully backwards compatible with 3.1 and 3.0, but it’s still best to perform a backup before updating.

Read on for full details of what’s new in WooCommerce Stripe 4.0!

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Since launching on the 9th of February 2010, Canvas, our all-purpose theme, has been a consistent performer and gathered a large base of loyal users. The styling control panel added by Canvas has proved popular amongst users who aren’t familiar with CSS, yet desire a customized look for their website. Businesses have since been built on the back of Canvas and WordPress, due to the ease of customization afforded by it.

With our 2015 theme retirements happening recently, we retired our collection of Canvas child themes. This action sparked questions from loyal Canvas users regarding the status of Canvas and our view on the product looking forward.

We’re here today to explain why these child themes were retired, and to give you a look into the future of Canvas. Keep on reading to learn more about the path this theme will take in the future.

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If you have a retail store as well as an online store, you definitely know how time-consuming it is to sync inventory, add products to both systems, and compile reports from two different systems. In short: it sucks.

That’s why we have spent a great deal of time looking at integrating WooCommerce with Point of Sale (POS) systems. The first of these integrations, which we’re proud to release today, connects WooCommerce to Lightspeed POS.

Read on to learn a little more about how Lightspeed and WooCommerce work together to synchronize your online and offline sales.

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Choosing an eCommerce platform has, in the past, been a daunting task. We like to feel that WooCommerce makes this decision a little bit easier.

That being said, once a store is online, it can be a really cumbersome process to switch the store’s platform (especially if it’s generating regular revenue). If an online store is down for even a few hours it can result in lost revenue.

Today, we want to remove one stumbling block in the process of switching to WooCommerce by making our converter extensions scot free.

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People tell you they don’t have favorite children and while that might be true you do have ‘favorites’ when it comes to our products. These are them for the year that was twenty fourteen.

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During our search for the lucky winner of a golden ticket for WooCommerce Conference, we spent several days combing through the thousands of submitted websites. During this activity, our team viewed many exciting WooCommerce-powered online stores and today, we’re going to explore 12 of my favourite WooCommerce stores, and what I feel makes each store stand out from the crowd.

J. Hornig

Premium coffee roasters from Austria! J. Hornig’s online store has attention to detail which reflects their passion and love of their product. With key attention paid to how variations are handled (a customised implementation, which is achievable using our Variation Swatches extension and some creativity), as well as clear niche calls to action on their homepage, J. Hornig illustrate that they know their customer and what their customer is looking for.

The J. Hornig store is running a custom-developed WordPress theme, WPML for handling multi-lingual content, as well as tracking using Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics.

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Today marks the latest milestone in the growth and lifetime of WooCommerce. After months of developing, testing and tweaking (as well as some more testing), the team who brought you Peppy Penguin are proud to present Prowling Pangolin, the latest release of WooCommerce, the world’s fastest growing eCommerce platform. Can we get a woo woo?

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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

The restaurant industry operates at an incredibly rapid pace. The reason for this is evident; the more covers the restaurant turns over in a single sitting, the more revenue the business brings in.

When established brick-and-mortar businesses (such as restaurants) first discover the internet, they often see a new channel through which to entice potential customers to visit their establishment. This is usually where their interaction with the internet ends.

Today’s release helps to expand the restaurant’s interaction with their potential customers via the internet.

Patrons of Café Woo, we present to you Bon Appétit, a tasty restaurant theme for WordPress.

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Earlier this July, we were invited to present WordPress at the first ever Code4CT event. Run by InnovateSA, Code4CT aims to educate high school girls from a local South African township about web technologies and how to employ them to create successful online presences.

As passionate members of the WordPress Cape Town community, we strive to take up any opportunity to share our love for WordPress, the technology which has changed all of our lives. Hugh and I went along to speak to the girls about WordPress, leadership and having the courage to take a chance on an idea and to bet on themselves.

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To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
Giorgio Armani

When setting out on your adventure to sell online, you may initially feel like a small fish in an infinitely large pond. With enterprise-level online retailers making up a large portion of the market, the primary challenge for any small business retailer is to stand out.

One way to stand out is to position yourself as a large brand, aiming to compete alongside the enterprise-level retailers. This amounts to “fake it ’til you make it”, which is a concept proven successful many times over.

Today’s release is one we are exceptionally excited to share with you all.

Ladies and gentlemen of the Wooniverse, please give a warm welcome to Fashionable, a timeless online store theme for WordPress.

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Here at Woo, we’re a creative family. Whether working on a creative new offering as a team, or out exploring our individual hobbies (we have photographers, musicians, artists and more within the WooTeam, creativity is what drives us.

Today, we’re excited to share with you a project we’ve had on our roadmap for several months.

Ladies and gentlemen, hobby-ists and creatives, meet Zephyr, our latest creative outlet for WordPress.

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On the 9th of February 2010, a new theme was released into the wide world of WordPress. While seemingly an every day occurrence, little did we know the impact this theme would make. Crafted by Magnus Jepson, co-founder of WooThemes, Canvas version 1.0 was posted for sale on WooThemes.com.

Now in 2014, Canvas has grown in popularity in leaps and bounds, with developers and website beginners alike, offering a framework for advanced development, coupled with an intuitive configuration screen, for customising the design of your Canvas theme without touching any code.

Ladies and gentlemen, Canvas has had twins! Meet Uno and Duo, our first two Canvas child themes.

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Today marks a milestone in the evolution of the WooFramework, the engine powering all of our WordPress themes. The WooFramework is largely responsible for the theme settings screens, as well as handling any custom fields added to your content, displaying your media and enhancing your theme with breadcrumbs and other useful features.

Everyone, please meet WooFramework version 6.0!

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WooFramework, the engine powering all of our WordPress themes, has evolved and grown alongside WooThemes since the business first began, back in 2008. Over the years we’ve adjusted the look and feel, added and removed features and built up a stable base of core functionality available in any WordPress theme purchased from WooThemes.

Today marks the next evolution of the WooFramework: version 6.0.

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A security vulnerability within the TimThumb image resizing script was recently brought to light. This vulnerability uses the webshots feature (in beta) in TimThumb to gain unauthorised access to a website running TimThumb.

TimThumb, bundled into our WooFramework, is a script we keep a close eye on, to ensure it is safe and secure for you, our customers. While we are working through steps to remove TimThumb from our framework, the script is currently present in the WooFramework.

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Crowd-funding has been a hot topic on the web over the past few months. In WordPress circles, this has been no different. Today, we’re proud to announce an exciting collaboration between two WordPress players, which we hope will help you all to create beautiful crowd-funding websites and to help the greater good.

Our For The Cause theme now integrates seamlessly with IgnitionDeck.

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