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  • New page: List of WooCommerce core releases

    Good news, everyone! As we want to increase the transparency and improve the experience for merchants and developers alike, we are bringing you a page listing all WooCommerce releases to make it easy to…

  • Exploring Variation Filtering and Custom Tables

    Many developers and merchants are likely familiar with a gap in WooCommerce’s functionality around filtering products based on their variations. This quirk makes it difficult for customers to find what they’re looking for quickly,…

  • WooCommerce 5.2 Beta 1

    WooCommerce 5.2 is now available for beta testing! You can either download it directly from WordPress.org or install our WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin. What’s new? This is a minor release focusing on bug fixes and performance…

  • WooCommerce Blocks 4.7.0 Release Notes

    There’s a new version of WooCommerce Blocks available! Version 4.7.0 is now available on WordPress.org and GitHub. This release introduces: Several fixes around payment gateway display and extensibility interface, more stability around payment methods, styling fixes, and…

  • Adding your own store management links

    In the new and improved WooCommerce home screen, there are two points of extensibility for plugin developers that have recently had some attention. The first is the setup task list, allowing you to remind…

  • Integrating your Payment Method with Cart and Checkout Blocks

    Since we released the first iteration of the Cart and Checkout blocks to users of the WooCommerce blocks feature plugin last year, one of the most common requests we’ve received from stores that are…

  • Compatibility Issue with E2E Environment and WordPress 5.7

    tl;dr The built in testing container/server in the @woocommerce/e2e-environment package does not initialize properly with WordPress 5.7. We plan to release an update to the package next week that will include a fix for this issue.…

  • WooCommerce 5.1 Released

    We’re excited to announce that WooCommerce 5.1 is now released! This is the third minor release of 2021 and has 279 commits from 37 contributors in WooCommerce core. 109 commits from 22 contributors in the WooCommerce Admin…

  • Extension Developer Guide

    There is an updated guide available for building WooCommerce extensions. Read through it today by clicking the button below: About the guide If you want to develop extensions for WooCommerce, getting started can be…

  • WooCommerce Blocks 4.6.0 Release Notes

    There’s a new version of WooCommerce Blocks available! Version 4.6.0 is now available on WordPress.org and GitHub. This release contains mostly bugfixes, some technical debt pay down, and a few changes to better support extensibility. Fixes include…

  • WooCommerce Community News: February 2021

    A note from your developer advocate Howdy, Woo Developer Community! 👋 As many folks may know, we facilitate a Community Chat in the #core channel of the WooCommerce Community Slack every month. This chat…

  • Use Setup Tasks to provide a first-class on-boarding experience for merchants

    As a plugin author, you’ll often have one or more set up tasks you want to guide your user through to get the most out of your plugin. Two challenges are making sure users…

  • Help us make the WooCommerce Platform Better

    We’re part of a team focused on improving the WooCommerce platform, and we’re trying to make it better for all developers. To help us better understand your needs as a developer, we’re inviting you…

  • WooCommerce 5.1 Release Candidate

    We’re excited to announce that the release candidate is now available! We are on track for our planned March 9th release date. Note that this is a minor release focusing on bug fixes and performance…

  • WooCommerce Blocks 4.5.2 Release Notes

    There’s a new version of WooCommerce Blocks! Version 4.5.2 is now available on WordPress.org and GitHub. This release includes a bug fix which ensures the prices of items in the Cart block display correctly if the store…

  • WooCommerce Blocks 4.5.1 Release Notes

    There’s a new version of WooCommerce Blocks! Version 4.5.1 is now available on WordPress.org and GitHub. This release includes a new look for the payment methods section of the Checkout block, a new look for items in…

  • WooCommerce 5.1 Beta 1
    WooCommerce 5.1 Beta 1

    WooCommerce 5.1 is now available for beta testing! You can either download it directly from WordPress.org or install our WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin. What’s new? This is a minor release focusing on bug fixes and performance…

  • WordPress components no longer bundled with WooCommerce Admin

    tl;dr As of WooCommerce Admin 1.9, the @wordpress/components package is no longer bundled as part of the WooCommerce Admin codebase. The Details Early on in the development of WooCommerce Admin, the maintainers decided to…

  • Jump-start your End-to-end Testing with the WooCommerce E2E Boilerplate

    End-to-end tests are a powerful way to help you ship your WooCommerce Extension free of defects, but they’re hard to set up initially. As a result, many extension developers never experience the benefits of…

  • WooCommerce 5.0 Released

    We’re excited to announce that WooCommerce 5.0 is now released! This is the second minor release of 2021 and has 255 commits from 30 contributors in WooCommerce core. 163 commits from 26 contributors in…

  • WooCommerce 5.0 RC 3
    WooCommerce 5.0 RC 3

    We have released a WooCommerce 5.0 release candidate 3 and are still on track for our planned release February 9th. Note that this is a minor release focusing on bug fixes and performance improvements.…

  • WooCommerce Blocks 4.4.2 Release Notes

    Today we released a patch version of WooCommerce Blocks to fix compatibility with 3rd party payment gateway integrations. Version 4.4.2 is now available on WordPress.org and GitHub. Changelog Bug Fixes Adds a default “features” array for payment…

  • E2E Package Releases
    E2E Package Releases

    We recently released updates to all of our end-to-end testing packages: @woocommerce/api version 0.1.1 @woocommerce/e2e-core-tests version 0.1.1 @woocommerce/e2e-environment version 0.2.0 @woocommerce/e2e-utils version 0.1.2 Below you’ll find an overview of what has changed for each…

  • Adding columns to analytics reports and CSV downloads

    Adding columns to analytics reports are a really interesting way to add functionality to WooCommerce. New data can be consumed in the table view of the user interface and in your user’s favourite spreadsheet…

  • WooCommerce Blocks 4.4 Release Notes

    There’s a new version of WooCommerce Blocks! Version 4.4.0 is now available on WordPress.org and GitHub. This release includes several small tweaks and bug fixes across our blocks to fix markup issues and improve accessibility. One minor…