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Matt Cohen

@mattyza

Fractional CTO. Leadership & Tech Coach. I love building truly excellent products and teams for the open web. Early team @WooCommerce, ex-@Automattic.

Lets work together 👀 👉 Katılım Şubat 2008
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Matt Cohen
Matt Cohen@mattyza·
I’m excited to be speaking at the first ever Checkout Summit, and to meeting @rmelogli in person at last. If you’ve not yet got your ticket, book your ticket today and join us in Palermo! #RoadToCheckoutSummit
Rodolfo Melogli@rmelogli

#RoadToCheckoutSummit −60⏳ Time to announce another speaker—and this one brings serious WooCommerce history with him! I never had the chance to meet @mattyza in person… but that’s about to change 🙂 Matt was WooCommerce employee number 8 and spent 14 years helping shape the ecosystem, mostly through the WooCommerce Marketplace—reviewing extensions, guiding developers, and helping merchants find tools they could trust. Now he’s flying all the way from South Africa to join us, share what he’s learned, and finally meet the people he’s supported for years. His talk, “What I’ve Learned from Reviewing Over 1,000 WooCommerce Extensions”, comes with a clear takeaway: most plugins fail not because they’re badly coded—but because they try to do too much. He’ll break down what actually works, why strong defaults beat endless settings, why users must see value in minutes, and why great marketing talks about outcomes—not features. If you build plugins, products, or tools in the Woo ecosystem, this is the kind of talk you’ll want to attend (and remember—no recordings and no livestream... if you want insights like these, you need to be in the room 😉). See you in Palermo, Matt! P.S. Find all the speakers and some of the announced talks here: checkoutsummit.com/speakers/

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Rodolfo Melogli
Rodolfo Melogli@rmelogli·
#RoadToCheckoutSummit −65 ⏳ Big milestone unlocked: the Checkout Summit 2026 speaker lineup is officially complete: checkoutsummit.com/cheers-to-the-… All speakers are now confirmed and locked in. Over the next days I’ll be announcing each of them individually with their talk titles and outlines—but for now I’m just enjoying this moment and mentally archiving this massive task so I can focus on what’s left: tickets, sponsors, logistics, and all the final moving parts. One spoiler: @Wise isn’t just sponsoring—they’ll also be on stage (with Cathy Chen) talking about their brand-new entry into the WordPress/WooCommerce world 🔥 Also joining the stage (some of them have already been shared here): James Kemp @jamesckemp, Maciek Palmowski @palmiak_fp, Matt Cohen @mattyza, and Andrea Cardinali @andreacardinali (who’ll proudly represent Italy and prove we can run tech talks in English too 😄) Now back to reality: - calling printers who ghost quotes - nudging sponsors who are “still deciding” - reminding people about the Feb 28 hotel deadline - sprinting for two more weeks to sell the remaining tickets Nothing about this is easy, but motivation is (still) high—and sanity is (still) intact.
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Matt Cohen@mattyza·
@real_lisa_adams @AdmytMe One solution would be to sign up to Admyt oneself and add one’s own vehicle. Then the system should allow a vehicle only on a single account. If it’s already added to a different account, you could have it removed from all accounts and need verification. One option.
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Lisa Adams@real_lisa_adams·
I would like to call out this new parking payment platform called @AdmytMe who have done absolutely nothing to consider the safety of women in South Africa in their product design process. If you are a woman, please go and check whether your vehicle license plate is registered on their platform. I’ll tell you why: Your product deeply lacks any consideration for safety protocols or consent from vehicle owners. You are complicit in nonconsensual vehicle sign ups. Predatory men can now easily take a woman’s vehicle license plate number and sign them up on your app because you have zero verification process for vehicle ownership. Said man, knows every time I have entered a parking lot or left and can determine my location pretty easily or monitor my habits. Even as far as recently showing up at my house with your free information. Human trafficking, Harassment, Stalkerism are but a few of the crimes you enable. I suggest you hire some Product Leadership who can think through risk aversion with a consciousness of the realities of South Africa, while you’ve just made it simple to open women up to danger in a country that has a proven track record for GBV.
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Hiten Shah@hnshah·
Until your product hits the real world, everything is theory. Most startups die waiting for a plan to be proven. Feedback lives in the reaction, not the roadmap.
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Seek Wiser@SeekWiser_·
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Beau@beaulebens·
Today, @WooCommerce launched a snazzy new look to match the exciting changes we’re making to our product strategy. This new era of Woo will touch everything: from core WooCommerce architecture to user experience to our brand identity. Read more about it: woocommerce.com/posts/introduc…
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Woo@WooCommerce·
Introducing the new Woo. 🤝 We’ve been evolving our brand identity to keep pace with our new product vision. Woo got a glow-up, and it feels so right. Allow @tamaraniesen to formally introduce you: woocommerce.com/posts/introduc…
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Matt Cohen@mattyza·
I'm grateful for this feature in Slack I discovered by chance recently. I find myself often following threads in my day to day- now that is all automated.
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Beau@beaulebens·
I’m honored to step into the role of leading @WooCommerce and to continue building upon our strong vision and success. In 2025, we’re doubling down on product quality and modernizing our platform to meet the increasingly sophisticated demands of modern commerce.
Develop with Woo@DevelopWoo

Big news! Following a successful interim period last year, Beau is stepping in to lead Woo permanently. With deep engineering roots and 6 years leading our technical teams, he's ready to build the future of ecommerce together with our community. Read more: buff.ly/4hsrIkg

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Old Internet@OldInternetFeel·
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hawXli@hawXli·
I’ve been back in South Africa the last 3 or 4 days and genuinely, I wish South African’s knew how good they have it here. Ireland is an amazing place and I’m fortunate enough to actually make a decent living, afford rent, and groceries, and even small luxuries which sadly I couldn’t do here, however… SA just does it different. On a scale that one can’t comprehend from that side. South African’s, if you can make it here, respect it and appreciate it here. There is no place like South Africa. Period.
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@bringmeamenu @FrugalLocal Of course if there is the same deal without the emotional/ethical/moral quandary, I’d take that all day long over a bank repossession. One never quite knows how much neglect one would need to deal with on the property.
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Louise Simon@bringmeamenu·
@FrugalLocal Never profit from someone else's misfortune....that's my rule in life!
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Frugal Sibusiso 🇿🇦@FrugalLocal·
Recent data shows Home loan non-payments have increased by over 50%, with only 87.8% of loans currently up to date. I think this might be an opportunity in the making for investors!
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@bringmeamenu @FrugalLocal That’s a great rule to live by. That said, the only folks who really stand to profit directly from someone’s misfortune is the bank. It’s a legal contract. While emotions are important in life, at some point a deal is a deal. If one misses out, someone else will still take it.
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Matt Cohen@mattyza·
@rmelogli Time for a UI update for this feature. Truncate and a “view more” link should do the trick.
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Rodolfo Melogli@rmelogli·
Wait till you have 30+ plugins that "Requires Plugins: woocommerce" 🤣 This is my dev site!
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@FrugalLocal Eish. Seems like they kinda missed the point on the whole blockchain thing, there.
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Frugal Sibusiso 🇿🇦@FrugalLocal·
BITCOIN REGULATION INCOMING IN SA As of 30 April 2025, all crypto platforms in South Africa will be required to identify the parties to a cryptocurrency transaction and verify the data for anything above R 5 000. Basically, they're regulating the conversion between ZAR and BTC - like a toll gate.
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@KatieKeithBarn2 @WooCommerce The plugin landscape is strong, particularly for features for specific niches (eg: bookings and doc management for coaches). In the same way that around ~80% of any business tastes like chicken (same regardless of niche), plugins bring the extra 20% of unique flavor to a store.
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Katie Keith@KatieKeithBarn2·
I have mixed feelings about @WooCommerce's new "More in core" philosophy. It will probably boost market share which is good for all of us 📈. But as a plugin company owner, I'm scared it will kill some of my plugins 🙀🪦 What do you think is the right balance?
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@KatieKeithBarn2 What I’ve found works for me is quiet for the first 15-20 minutes of the day, a morning meditation first thing, and then taking off the duvet and getting out of bed gently. Meditation for me, rip off duvet to get the day started.
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Katie Keith
Katie Keith@KatieKeithBarn2·
What are your tips for getting out of bed in the morning? For the last 10 years, the school run forced me to get up at a certain time. However, my daughter just switched to online school and now I'm having daily lie-ins, procrastinating on my phone instead of working 🛌
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