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WooCommerce 9.6: Fresh new tools and modernizing classics
🚀 WooCommerce 9.6 is here! 🎨 Brands plugin auto-enabled 💡 Refreshed product editor 📐 Smarter unit defaults 📦 Enhanced Product Summary block 📊 API upgrades & fixes Update now & explore the full changelog:
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Developer advisory: Coming Soon Mode by default
🚨 Developer Advisory: Upcoming WooCommerce 9.6 introduces changes to the default behavior of “Coming Soon” mode for new installs. 📖 See details + actions for developers:
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Enabling Brands: Update for WooCommerce 9.6
🚀 Exciting news: With the coming release of WooCommerce 9.6, Brands will be fully integrated into core! 🎉 Enabled by default, it simplifies brand management for everyone. No more plugins—it’s all built-in now!
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Developer advisory: Product review form template version update
🚨 New Dev Advisory: The single-product-reviews.php template markup has been updated to include an autocomplete attribute. 📖 Learn more:
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Order DataStore Caching — A new approach to optimize WooCommerce performance
Order DataStore Caching is coming! 🎉 This experiemental feature moves raw order data caching to the HPOS layer for improved performance.
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New WooCommerce blocks cart item image filter
WooCommerce 9.6 introduces a filter to modify cart item images in Cart & Checkout blocks via the Store API response. 🎨 Customize with ease! 📖 Learn more:
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Developer advisory: Block Checkout field entities
🚨 New Dev Advisory: WooCommerce 9.6 changes how checkout field visibility settings are saved—they’ll now apply globally instead of to individual checkout block instances. 📖 Learn more:
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Join us for January’s Developer Office Hours: The future of WooCommerce themes
Join us Jan 22 at 22:00 UTC for Developer Office Hours! Ellen Bauer, WooCommerce’s Product Lead for themes, blocks & patterns, will share insights on theme development and block patterns.
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Feedback request: Adding order fulfillments to WooCommerce
Feedback wanted! We’re planning to introduce fulfillments into WooCommerce core and we want to know how it can best serve you. Check out the article for details and designs.
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WooCommerce 9.5.2: Dot Release
🚀 WooCommerce 9.5.2 is live 🔒 Improved coupon security: Prevent overuse during checkout with atomic locking. 🔄 Customers API: Mutations now restricted to customer & subscriber roles.
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Let’s Talk Accessibility & Compliance in Woo Stores – with Bet Hannon
Join us for a live event on January 28 with special guest @bethannon of @AccessiCart. With EAA coming in June, we are discussing how to achieve and maintain accessibility compliance in your WooCommerce stores.
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Developer Advisory: Return value of response in `extensionCartUpdate`
⚠️ Developer Advisory: Return value of response in `extensionCartUpdate` ✍️ We’ve published a quick workaround. If this issue affects you, check it out on our blog.
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WooCommerce 9.6: Pre-release updates
🚀 WooCommerce 9.6 Beta is here! 🎉 Get a sneak peek at new features like a refreshed product editor, Store API upgrades, improved measurement units, and more. Final release on January 20, 2025. Stay…
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Card Testing Attacks and the Store API
🛠️ Learn how to fortify your defenses against card testing attacks in the Store API.
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WooCommerce 9.5: Convert guests to loyal customers through delayed account creation and cross-selling
🚀 WooCommerce 9.5 is here! 👉 Utilize delayed account creation to convert guest shoppers to loyal customers 👤 Personalize product experiences with Cross-Sells, and more… 🧾 Confirm payment status in receipts
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Modernizing the WooCommerce payments experience: Technical changes ahead
Big changes ahead for WooCommerce payment gateways! We’re introducing a new React-based settings interface and standardized integration patterns in WC 9.6. Extension developers, prepare your integrations for testing.
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WooCommerce in 2025: Building a platform for the future
WooCommerce is evolving. We’re bringing essential commerce features into core to create a more powerful platform for builder-supported stores at scale.
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December Office Hours: Holiday Hang Out
Join us for December Office Hours on Wednesday, December 18, from 17:00 – 18:00 UTC in the Woo Community Slack!
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Generate test data for WooCommerce with Smooth Generator
Need realistic test data for your WooCommerce store? Smooth Generator helps developers populate stores with products, orders, and customers automatically. Check out the latest version.
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Exciting News: Cost of Goods Sold Coming to WooCommerce Core!
COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) is coming to WooCommerce core, enabling merchants to track product costs and calculate exact profit margins natively.
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Event recap: “Let’s Talk Themes with Ellen Bauer”
WooCommerce hosts live community discussion on future of themes with Product Lead Ellen Bauer, focusing on block themes and developer feedback.
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WooCommerce 9.4.3 and WooCommerce 9.3.4 available now
WooCommerce 9.4.3 includes important security enhancements for URL handling, event data validation, and guest checkout controls. Update recommended.
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Modernizing WooCommerce Emails: We Need Your Feedback!
✉️ WooCommerce is working to modernize its email system, from the design and customization options to how emails integrate with your store’s branding. Join the discussion.
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Call for Feedback: Stepper Layout in Add to Cart Block
🧪 Call for feedback: The new stepper layout for Add to Cart Options block is currently an experimental feature flag for 9.5. Tell us what you think!
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WooCommerce 9.4.2: Dot Release
🐛 This dot release resolves a fatal PHP error in the payments menu, enhances file handling in product imports with the WordPress Filesystem API, and restores the default batch size for the Product CSV…