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Simplifying WooCommerce’s Repository Tooling
WooCommerce is a complex project that needs powerful tooling for its development. However, over time, the commands needed to successfully manage a WooCommerce development environment have become more and more… Read more
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WooCommerce 7.1.0 PHP Requirement Update
WooCommerce 7.1.0 was released this past Tuesday, November 8. The release package included an inadvertent change that bumped the required PHP version to PHP 7.4. In the past, we’ve communicated… Read more
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High-Performance Order Storage: Backward Compatibility and Synchronization
This is the second deep dive into the High-Performance Order Storage solution principles. Please find the links to all the chapters in the initial progress report. We understand that breaking… Read more
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Plan to update WooCommerce block templates
We are planning to introduce some changes to the way WooCommerce templates work in block themes. Those include improving template hierarchy, creating a Products by Attribute template and adjusting how… Read more
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Goodbye, Yoda conditions
Update: after additional internal discussions we’ve decided to reverse this decision. WooCommerce will continue to use Yoda conditions as outlined in the WordPress PHP coding standards to stay aligned with… Read more
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Stop Registering Customizer Options for Block Themes
Update We have introduced some changes since this post was originally published and starting with WC 6.9, if a site has a block theme active, WooCommerce Customizer options are registered… Read more
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Update to Action Scheduler Requirements
We plan on bumping the minimum requirements for Action Scheduler in an upcoming release. The Details Currently, Action Scheduler requires at least PHP 5.6 but, principally in order to add… Read more
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Introducing WooCommerce Monorepo
WooCommerce Admin’s code has now safely landed in Core WooCommerce repository, which has been transformed into a monorepo. This monorepo is now capable of unifying code across the WooCommerce platform… Read more
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Approved Download Directories
We plan on including a new Approved Download Directories feature in WooCommerce 6.5 (scheduled for May 10) to give site owners additional control over product downloads. You may be particularly… Read more
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Breaking change notice: woocommerce_emogrifier hook
As we announced back in January, as of WooCommerce 6.5, to be released in May, the minimum PHP version required will be 7.2. The version bump work is done, and… Read more
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Removal of ZeroClipboard
Summary WooCommerce will remove ZeroClipboard (a JQuery plugin used to manage clipboard interactions) from its dependencies in an upcoming release. Plugins, themes and other projects that still use this library… Read more
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Adding and Modifying Actions and Filters
WooCommerce is an open source project and we actively encourage contributions from our developer community — including pull requests that introduce new functionality. At the same time, we understand that… Read more
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