WooCommerce 7.3 Released

We are pleased to announce the release of WooCommerce 7.3.0. This release should be backwards compatible with the previous version.

This release contains:

162 commits from 44 contributors in WooCommerce Core.
115 commits from 21 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 7.3.0?

Add Pinterest and Codisto extensions to the onboarding wizard. (#36003, #36009)
Add a warning banner to the user when the tax settings are mismatched and in conflict. (#36010)
Product management: improve the UI for creating attributes (#35904) and guidance around product image size and format (#35834)
Add a new Products block, which allows listing products choosing specific criteria, as well as controlling the layout of the products in the list/grid by the various element blocks. It’s currently labelled beta because we’re still polishing it, but look forward to any feedback you can provide on the block.

Add 3 “commerce-adjacent” patterns for WooCommerce stores. “Commerce adjacent” means that the patterns are not connected to any WooCommerce data, which gives a bit more flexibility around what you link to, the images used etc.

Add one-click installation feature in our multichannel marketing experience (beta). You can now directly install our recommended marketing extensions that are available in WordPress.org plugins directory, without leaving wp-admin dashboard.

Installation of MailPoet plugin is in progress.

These are just some of the changes that are included in WooCommerce 7.3.0. You can find the complete changelog for this release in the changelog.txt file.

Actions and Filters

‘woocommerce_’ . $this->order_type . ‘_list_table_custom_column’ Fires for each custom column for a specific order type. This hook takes precedence over the generic action manage_{$this->screen->id}_custom_column.
‘woocommerce_’ . $this->order_type . ‘_list_table_request’ Allows 3rd parties to filter the initial request vars before defaults and other logic is applied.
‘woocommerce_’ . $this->order_type . ‘_list_table_prepare_items_query_args’ Same as woocommerce_order_list_table_prepare_items_query_args but for a specific order type.
‘woocommerce_’ . $this->order_type . ‘_list_table_default_statuses’ Allows 3rd parties to set the default list of statuses for a given order type.
‘woocommerce_’ . $this->order_type . ‘_list_table_order_count’ Allows 3rd parties to modify the count of orders by status.
‘woocommerce_order_list_table_restrict_manage_orders’ Fires before the “Filter” button on the list table for orders and other order types.
‘woocommerce_order_list_table_extra_tablenav’ Fires immediately following the closing “actions” div in the tablenav for the order list table.
‘woocommerce_’ . $this->order_type . ‘_list_table_columns’ Filters the list of columns.
‘woocommerce_’ . $this->order_type . ‘_list_table_sortable_columns’ Filters the list of sortable columns.

Database Changes

There are no database changes in this release.

Template Changes

Deprecations

There are no deprecations in this release.

WooCommerce Core

WooCommerce Blocks

19 responses to “WooCommerce 7.3 Released”

Luuk

January 13, 2023

After updating to WooCommerce 7.3, all custom product attribute taxonomy templates aren’t being picked up anymore. It falls back to the regular archive-product template. Anyone else experience this bug?

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fwegberts

January 13, 2023

Nice update! I would like to suggest an improvement. Shopify has introduced Shopify markets for a while now with which you can easily link multiple domains names to one Shopify installation. This works very simply for multilingual stores. Are you also planning to build in such a function for WC? Now we have to use slow 3rd party plugins like polylang and wpml with bad UX. I think this should be standard for Woocommerce to really compete with the multistore features Magento and Shopify have. What do you think?

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mdxfr

January 15, 2023

thanks for the hard work !! can’t wait for new the add product new experience to come, aside with FSE templating.
don’t forget to update the changelog on trunk and 7.3.0 branches
it is ok in WP updater. Can be usefull especially when there is such a fix like “Add security 242 changelog”, that is a welcomed sec change.
regards

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Paul

April 26, 2024

Is there a way to show attributes in the list or grid of products it generates?

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Jason Hess

March 25, 2025

Hi there,

After this update, on our site it seems that for subscription orders – the icon for an order from a new customer in the “subscription relationship” column on the orders page has changed from an icon to a hyphen. Renewal orders still show the renewal icon. Has anyone else observed this? If yes is this a feature or a bug?

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1. Barry Hughes
  
  March 26, 2025
  
  Hi Jason,
  
  Just to avoid any confusion for others, I’ll start by noting that this post is about WooCommerce 7.3.0, but your comment would seem to be about WooCommerce Subscriptions 7.3.0.
  
  In any case, this was a deliberate change aimed at improving performance. If you prefer or rely on the old behaviour, you can bring the parent order icon back with a small snippet of code looking like this:
  
  add_filter( 'woocommerce_subscriptions_orders_list_render_parent_order_relation', '__return_true' );
  
  Can I ask if this change has made things difficult for you? We’d be interested to learn more if so, as we could certainly iterate on this area a little more.
  
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  1. Tony Biagiotti
    
    March 29, 2025
    
    Where exactly will this snippet of code be placed? I rely on these dots and would like them back.
    
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    1. Barry Hughes
      
      March 29, 2025
      
      Hi Tony,
      
      There’s some good advice in the article I linked to in my last reply:
      
      developer.woocommerce.com/docs/category/code-snippets
      
      There are actually a variety of ways to do this, but a code snippet plugin (in the above article we reference this one, but there are lots of other options out there) is probably the easiest and safest way.
      
      For the technically experienced, you could alternatively place the code in a custom plugin or a mu-plugin of your own, but if in doubt I’d suggest avoiding those things and just use a good code snippet plugin
      
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  2. Tony Biagiotti
    
    March 29, 2025
    
    This change has made operating my website much more difficult. I have grown to rely on these dots. Having a website with over a million dollars a year passing through it, I noticed that changes to woo commerce have now become a liability in the smooth operation of my website. Problems with operations seem to be coming from so-called upgrades and improvements to WooCommerce versus true bugs in the system. Woo commerce so called upgrades and changes seem to have now become a liability in the smooth operation of my website. Please stop breaking or changing core or established patterns of operation in the product with these upgrades. I am now finding that I am spending more time on doing or working around or fixing WooCommerce upgrades than I like. I’m just giving you my honest feedback as a woo commerce customer of three plus years. It is starting to make me look for other options that are more stable and will not require days of research to fix so-called upgrades.
    
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    1. Barry Hughes
      
      March 29, 2025
      
      I appreciate your candour. We of course did not want to cause unnecessary disruption—we were hoping these changes would be a net positive for everyone—but it’s now clear that this has been problematic for many of you.
      
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    2. Matt Allan
      
      March 31, 2025
      
      Hi Tony, apologies for the disruption this caused to your business!
      
      We’ve just released WooCommerce Subscriptions 7.3.1, which restores the Parent Order icon displayed in the Subscription Relation column on the Order list table.
      
      If you’re already using the snippet Barry shared above, you can keep it in place and safely update to 7.3.1 without affecting your store. The 7.3.1 patch simply changes the default value of the filter, so the Parent Order icon is now visible by default for all stores.
      
      Thanks for reaching out and sharing your concerns, and we’re sorry again for the trouble this caused!
      
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Jason Hess

March 26, 2025

Hi Barry,

Really appreciate the response! Yes, I was referring to the Subscriptions update.

For the purposes of our business rules and how our team operates, we use a non-subscription product to allow customers to switch to a different subscription product tier at the time of their renewal. Our term for this is a “switch product”. Essentially it allows for a customer to switch to a different subscription while their subscription status is on hold. We provide a direct link to switch products in their renewal e-mail. They are not displayed in our shop. In essence, this is a workaround of a limitation (I believe) on how WooCommerce subscriptions operate while they are On Hold. We have a procedure where we update the customer’s existing subscription to the new tier they have selected via their switch product order, and set the subscription to Active and then cancel the linked subscription order because the customer has already paid via the switch order.

The icons in the relationship column allow us to easily see if an order is a renewal subscription order, a brand new customer subscription order or a switch order.

The change means we cannot differentiate between a a brand new customer subscription order or a switch order because both are now represented by a dash.

Really appreciate the code snippet. I will implement it!

Jas.

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1. Barry Hughes
  
  March 27, 2025
  
  Thank you for the response—that’s really helpful.
  
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2. Matt Allan
  
  March 31, 2025
  
  Hi Jason, thank you for reaching out to us regarding this change and apologies for the disruption this caused!
  
  We’ve just released WooCommerce Subscriptions 7.3.1, which restores the Parent Order icon displayed in the Subscription Relation column on the Order list table.
  
  If you’re already using the snippet Barry shared, you can keep it in place and safely update to 7.3.1 without affecting your store. The 7.3.1 patch simply changes the default value of the filter, so the Parent Order icon is now visible by default for all stores.
  
  Let us know if you have any questions about updating, and thanks again for your feedback! We’ll be more careful about making changes like this in the future!
  
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Marco Almeida

March 28, 2025

The icon should come back, as in shops where there’s also products that are not subscriptions, it became really hard to identify them on the orders list,as parent subscription and regular orders now look the same (no icon).

I’m now using the woocommerce_subscriptions_orders_list_render_parent_order_relation filter which solves it for me, but I bet there are a lot of shop owners confused with their dashboard right now.

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1. Barry Hughes
  
  March 28, 2025
  
  Thanks for sharing your thoughts … it does seem that this change has caused more confusion that we anticipated.
  
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  1. Marco Almeida
    
    March 28, 2025
    
    Yup
    
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2. Matt Allan
  
  March 31, 2025
  
  Hi Marco, we have just released WooCommerce Subscriptions 7.3.1 which reverts the change we made and restores the Parent Order icon to the Orders list table.
  
  Thank-you for sharing your concerns with us and apologies for the impact this change has had to running your business.
  
  Since you already have the snippet of code Barry shared, you can still keep that snippet and update Subscriptions to 7.3.1 without impacting your store. The patch we made changed the default value of the filter, so by default, all stores will show the Parent Order icon now without needing the snippet of code.
  
  Let us know if you have any questions regarding updating and thanks again for your feedback and co-operation! We’ll make sure we don’t introduce changes that could affect business operations like this in the future.
  
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  1. Marco Almeida
    
    March 31, 2025
    
    Thanks, I can confirm the fix.
    
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