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Subscriptions Plugin + HPOS Upgrade Party
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We recently published a post detailing the next steps now that we’ve declared compatibility with WooCommerce’s new High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) in WooCommerce Subscriptions 4.9.0 It’s now time for extensions that integrate with WooCommerce Subscriptions to update their code in order to be compatible with Subscriptions being stored in the new wc_orders tables. To make it easier for you…
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Developer Office Hours: March Edition | Platform Leadership
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Hi, everyone! We’re back with our monthly iteration of Office Hours. ☺️ What Are Office Hours? Office hours are an opportunity for developers to ask questions they need answered or share challenges they need help navigating. This is something that is already happening organically in our Slack channels, which is great! But we also want to…
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WC Blocks Extensibility Monthly Chat: March Edition
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Hi, folks! On Monday, March 13th at 1600 UTC, we’ll have our second session of a three-month-long pilot program monthly chat where we will engage with you, our developer community, about WooCommerce Blocks Extensibility. The chat will take place in the #developers channel on the WooCommerce Community Slack. What is this monthly chat for? The WC Blocks Extensibility Monthly Chat will…
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High Performance Order Storage is (soon to be) the New Normal
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Since January 2022, we have been working hard to optimize the performance of WooCommerce by focusing on Orders and how we can more efficiently manage Order data. We wanted to improve the experience for Merchants and their customers while creating a simpler structure for developers. The result is High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS). In November, we…
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WooCommerce Subscriptions + HPOS: Understanding Next Steps
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In WooCommerce Subscriptions 4.9.0 we declared compatibility with WooCommerce’s new High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) feature, which means it’s time for extensions that integrate with WooCommerce Subscriptions to update their code in order to be compatible with Subscriptions being stored in the new wc_orders tables. Getting Started: Glossary: Subscriptions in HPOS When HPOS is enabled, Order…
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WooCommerce 7.5 RC 1
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RC 1 for the March 2023 release of WooCommerce is now available for testing! You can either download it directly from WordPress.org or install our WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin. Highlights Since the release of 7.5 rc 1, the following changes have been made: For the complete list of changes in WooCommerce, view the changelog in the readme…
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WooCommerce Blocks 9.7.0 & 9.7.1 Release Notes
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Update: After releasing WC Blocks 9.7.1 we received some reports from the community that it was causing a fatal error in some stores. The issue could be reproduced in WordPress sites which didn’t have Gutenberg enabled. We started investigating it as soon as we learned about it and we released a fixed version soon after:…
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Store Editing Snaps: February 13 – 24
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Hello and welcome to another round of Snaps from the WooCommerce Store Editing team! 🎇 Every couple of weeks, we give an update on all the work being done on WooCommerce Blocks from behind the scenes. Let’s take a look at some highlights of what we’ve done since our last update. Note that the linked #numbers that…
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WooCommerce 7.4.1 Fix Release
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WooCommerce 7.4.1 is now available for download. What’s new? This release bumped the version of WooCommerce Blocks included in WooCommerce to 9.4.4. Version 9.4.4 of WooCommerce Blocks fixes an issue that had the potential to cause errors with some extensions when the tax address was filtered before the session was initiated. #8537 You can download the…
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WooCommerce 7.5 Beta 2
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Beta 2 for the March 2023 release of WooCommerce is now available for testing! You can either download it directly from WordPress.org or install our WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin. Highlights Since the release of 7.5 beta 1, the following changes have been made: For the complete list of changes, view the changelog in the readme for this…
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Revisiting WordPress Core Support Policy for WooCommerce
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At present, WooCommerce follows an L-2 support policy, meaning it supports the latest version of WordPress and the two preceding versions. This approach was chosen to ensure optimal performance and stability as WordPress Core evolves. By limiting the range of WordPress versions that can be used with WooCommerce, we are able to allocate resources, including…
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WooCommerce 7.5 Beta 1
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Beta 1 for the March 2023 release of WooCommerce is now available for testing! You can either download it directly from WordPress.org or install our WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin. Highlights Since the release of 7.4, the following changes have been made: Many bug fixes and improvements were also added. For the complete list, view the changelog in…
