Recent posts
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Announcing Developer Office Hours
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Howdy everybody! 👋 As I mentioned in my previous post, fostering engagement and connection within our developer community is an important priority for us. We currently hold a monthly developer community chat on Slack where we share engineering updates and field questions about current and upcoming initiatives. The response to these events has been a…
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WooCommerce 4.4 Release Candidate
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After releasing the beta version last week we found a few issues that needed fixing. We squashed these and made a few other improvements as well, therefore, we are moving ahead according to the plan and are excited to announce that the release candidate is now available! We are also on track for our planned…
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WooCommerce Blocks 3.1 release notes
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Today we released WooCommerce Blocks 3.1.0! It’s available for download from GitHub and WordPress.org. WP 5.5 compatibility WordPress 5.5 will be released in a few weeks, WooCommerce Blocks 3.1 adds compatibility with this release, that meant updating some API endpoints as well as ensuring there were no regressions in other parts of the codebase. Also…
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WooCommerce 4.4.0 Beta 1
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Beta 1 for August release of WooCommerce is now available for testing! You can either download it directly from WordPress.org or install our WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin. What’s new? WooCommerce Blocks Update This release includes numerous bug fixes and improvements across various blocks. Some notable changes include – Updating styles across all blocks to make…
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July 30: Community Chat #12
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Our next Community Chat is going to take place on Thursday, July 30 at 18:00 UTC in the #core channel of the WooCommerce Community Slack. If you don’t already have access to the group, you can request an invite here. Our agenda for this chat includes: WooCommerce Core Release Calendar – We recently published our release…
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WooCommerce Blocks 3.0 release notes
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Today we released WooCommerce Blocks 3.0.0! It’s available for download from GitHub and WordPress.org. Support for BACS and COD Two of the major highlights of this release are introducing support for the Bank Transfer and Cash on Delivery payment methods to the checkout block. This work fulfills a key part of our plan to support…
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WooCommerce core release calendar
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Releases in the past year With WooCommerce 3.7 we started the journey towards smaller, more frequent, and more stable releases, with multiple fix releases being an exception rather than a rule. We got there by switching the fundamental principle of our releases from being feature-based (like 3.5 or 3.6) with a relatively long time between…
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WooCommerce 4.3.1 Fix Release
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We’ve just shipped another release that contains two bugfixes for the WC Admin and Blocks packages. Here is the changelog for the release: Download the latest release of WooCommerce here or visit Dashboard → Updates to update the plugin from your WordPress admin screen. As usual, if you spot any other issues in the WooCommerce…
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Centralized Coupon Management – available for testing
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As was outlined in the post for the new WooCommerce Marketing Hub we are looking to make it the place from which merchants can manage all their marketing needs for their WooCommerce stores. As part of this vision we are moving the existing coupon management interface in WooCommerce core to be located within the Marketing…
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Meet your Developer Advocate
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Howdy! 👋 I’m Allen Smith, and I’m excited to introduce myself as your developer advocate for WooCommerce. I have only been here a few weeks, but it’s already clear to me that WooCommerce has an incredible developer community brimming with experience, talent, and great ideas. I’d love to share a bit about myself and what…
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WooCommerce 4.3 is now available!
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We are excited to announce that WooCommerce 4.3 is now publicly available! It has been in development since April 2020 and the core has been updated with 272 commits from 24 contributors. This is a minor release, which means everything is backward compatible with the previous version. As always, we recommend creating a backup of…
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WooCommerce 4.3 Release Candidate 3
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Hi all! After publishing the second release candidate for WooCommerce 4.3, we’ve discovered a problem between Jetpack and WooCommerce that resulted in WooCommerce creating a lot of unnecessary options in the database. As we prefer the stability of the platform, we’ve decided to publish one more release candidate–RC3 today to test the problematic parts of…
