A new update for the WooCommerce extension was released last week, adding a new feature that lets you charge your users points when they use a coupon. We’ve received requests for partial checkout with points, as well as for giving percentage based discounts for points. Both of these are now made possible by this new
Read moreI am pleased to announce the release of WordPoints 2.4.0. This is a maintenance release that fixes a few bugs, polishes up some existing features, and also adds some new features. Extensions One of the focuses in this feature is modules, which we’ve decided to rename to extensions. With this release, WordPoints extensions can now
Read moreSeveral people have requested before to be able to display the top users in a given month, week, or other period of time. We are pleased to announce that a module offering this feature is now available! You can find all of the details on the page for the module, but it includes widgets and
Read moreYesterday, WooCommerce version 3.0 was released, and today I’m pleased to announce the release of a long-awaited update for the WooCommerce module. We would have released this update sooner, but we were waiting for WooCommerce 3.0 to be released, due to compatibility concerns. The new version of the module improves compatibility with WooCommerce 3.0 and
Read moreWordPoints version 2.3.0 has just been released, and includes several new features and improvements, in addition to some minor security hardening and a few small bug fixes. First, a small security issue was patched similar to a fix that was made to WordPress itself in version 4.7.3. It was discovered that the Delete Plugins screen
Read moreAfter much work and much anticipation, one of our most requested modules is finally here! Actually, I have three modules to announce, but let’s start with: BuddyPress Many of you have been patiently waiting for this, and the first release is now ready. It integrates WordPoints with BuddyPress by adding a Points tab to member
Read moreI am pleased to announce the availability of an initial beta version of the long-awaited BuddyPress module. This is one of the most requested integrations so far, but it had taken me a while to finally be able to work on it. But without further ado, here is the link that you can use to
Read moreIf you hadn’t noticed, a bugfix for WordPoints was released a few days ago. WordPoints 2.1.4 fixed a bug in version 2.1, and also included some minor security hardening, thanks to @e3amn2l. The bug that was fixed was an issue with events for publishing posts, pages, and other post types. This issue caused any reactions
Read moreI’ve recently been thinking about the need to standardize WordPoints’s WordPress compatibility policy and release cycle for the benefit of module development. I’ve sort of tried to standardize WordPoints’s release cycle before, but it never really happened. However, the development of many new modules will mean that there will need to be a definite beta
Read moreMany of you have been looking forward to the integration of WordPoints with BuddyPress for some time. Well, I’m happy to report that development of the module is officially under way. I had actually hoped that I would be further along than I am, but there were some other things that I had to tend
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