We are pleased to announce the release of WooCommerce 7.1. This release should be backward compatible with the previous version.
This release contains:
- 185 commits from 37 contributors in WooCommerce Core
- 162 commits from 22 contributors in WooCommerce Blocks
As always, we recommend creating a backup of your site and making sure that your theme and any other plugins are compatible before updating. You can check out this update guide for more information.
What’s new in 7.1?
Spotlight tour for products task

The new product spotlight tour intends to help new store owners to create their products in a guided way. It filters out distractions and includes helpful texts to describe essential fields within the product form.
You can try out the new spotlight tour by going to WooCommerce > Home
and then Add products > Start with a template
from the setup task list. Select any template, and then click on Go
.
WooCommerce Blocks
New Block Patterns
WooCommerce Blocks now come with 6 new header and footer patterns each. You can view the new patterns here:


Filter for place order button label
The Place Order
button either shows Place Order
or the payment method label, e.g. Proceed to PayPal
. However, a merchant couldn’t change the button label. A merchant can now change the label using a JavaScript snippet.
Snippet
const label = () => 'Pay now';
const { __experimentalRegisterCheckoutFilters } = window.wc.blocksCheckout;
__experimentalRegisterCheckoutFilters( 'custom-place-order-button-label', {
placeOrderButtonLabel: label,
} );
Checkout Button

Cross-Sells on Cart Block

Go to your product’s data and add “Cross-sells” products in the Linked Products section.

When your customers go to their cart, if they have already selected any item featuring cross-selling products, these will show up right there, ready to purchase!
New @wordpress/data stores
Much of the data previously kept in React Contexts was moved into WordPress data stores (@wordpress/data) to make it easier for third-party extensions to extend the functionality of the Cart and Checkout blocks. All changes are backward compatible, further information about this feature is available here.
Actions and Filters
This release adds two new actions and one new filter.
Actions
Action | Description |
woocommerce_before_delete_order | Fires immediately before an order is deleted from the database. [Source] |
woocommerce_before_trash_order | Fires immediately before an order is trashed. [Source] |
Filter
Filter | Description |
woocommerce_feature_description_tip | Allows customizing the message that appears under the description of each feature on the features settings page. [Source] |
Database Changes
This release introduces High Performance Order Storage behind a feature flag, but it remains disabled by default. There are no database changes in this release if you do not enable HPOS.
For a complete overview of High Performance Order Storage, take a look at the posts we’ve previously made, such as this post with frequently asked questions, or this one that addresses backward compatibility.
Template Changes
This release does not contain any template changes.
Much 💜 to all the contributors
Finally a big thanks to everyone in the community who has contributed via issue reports, fixes, translation, testing, supporting other users, or simply spreading the word.
19 replies on “WooCommerce 7.1.0 Released”
After half a million dollars in sales on Woocommerce I have a few of requests:
1. Gutenberg in product description, so that I can create colorful and stylish product descriptions instead of plain old text. I already enabled Gutenberg via a PHP script but it’s not officially supported
2. A new more modern Woocommerce backend. I know you’re already working on that (New Woocommerce Navigation experience), but for example the order page still features the old WordPress table, and the customers page feature the news tables.
3. Filter orders by payment gateway
4. export CSV orders without a plugin
5. Most popular Payment gateways in the core. Why do I need to install a plugin to use Stripe, Paypal, Klarna and even Woocommerce Payments
6. Printing packing slips. It’s an essential feature
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Minor typo for the new filter.
woocommerce_feature_descritpion_tip
It should be woocommerce_feature_description_tip
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Updated. Thank you.
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I can’t find this documented anywhere. How is this “feature flag” activated?
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Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Advanced > Features
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[…] WooCommerce 7.1 was released yesterday, delivering on time with the highly anticipated custom order tables feature, which was renamed to “High-Performance Order Storage” (HPOS). This is a major undertaking that implements custom tables for orders, products, and coupons, and promises significant performance gains for stores. […]
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What version of php is needed for this new version of WooCommerce?
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Sorry for the confusion. Initially the release included an inadvertent bump to 7.4, but it has been rolled back to 7.2. Please see this post: https://developer.woocommerce.com/2022/11/11/woocommerce-7-1-0-php-requirement-update/
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The minimum PHP version was increased to 7.4. I didn’t see this announced anywhere, did I miss it?
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Thanks for pointing this out. This was an inadvertent change, and has been fixed. Please see this post: https://developer.woocommerce.com/2022/11/11/woocommerce-7-1-0-php-requirement-update/
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Thank you very much for the summary and for all your work!
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