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
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