Recent posts
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Goodbye, Legacy REST API
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This post is a friendly reminder that the Legacy REST API will be removed in WooCommerce 9.0, which is scheduled for release on June 11, 2024. For most of our users this should not present any sort of problem but, for any users who do still depend on the Legacy REST API, we have prepared…
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May Office Hours: Preparing for WooCommerce 8.9 and Beyond
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Hello WooCommerce developers! 🚀 It’s that time again—time to join us for another engaging session of Developer Office Hours. Mark your calendars for Wednesday, May 15th from 16:00 – 17:00 UTC, and meet us in the #developers channel on the WooCommerce Community Slack. This month’s session will be particularly interesting as it’s the last live…
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WooCommerce 8.9: Pre-release updates
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WooCommerce 8.9 is coming soon… The post will track the work we do as we prepare to release 8.9 as well as provide a preview of what’s to come in this new version. Release Schedule: Hey folks, on Wednesday, April 24th, 2024, we kicked-off our Code Freeze ahead of the release of WooCommerce 8.9. As…
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Developer Advisory: WooCommerce 8.8.1 – potential conflict with old Action Scheduler versions
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Update April 17: WooCommerce 8.8 has been released as WooCommerce 8.8.2. Learn more here. Between approximately 14:43 and 15:16 UTC, WooCommerce 8.8.1 was briefly set as the stable version on WordPress.org. During this time, some sites may have automatically updated to WooCommerce 8.8.1. The version that was released includes a potential conflict with older Action…
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Store Editing Snaps: Shifting Our Cadence, Template Logic Updates, and More!
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Hello and welcome to another round of Snaps from the WooCommerce Store Editing team! 🎇 Every month, we give an update on all the work being done on WooCommerce Blocks from behind the scenes. This is a shift from our previous bi-weekly posts. We made this decision to more closely align with the timing of…
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April Office Hours: Open Forum
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Hello developers! We will be back with office hours this month on Wednesday, April 17 from 16:00 – 17:00 UTC. We do not have a specific topic picked out, so it’s an open forum! We will have @alexflorisca , @gigitux, and @opr18 – three awesome engineers that focus on WooCommerce Blocks, so if you have…
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WooCommerce.com Domain Migration
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We recently shared that we would be delaying the release of WooCommerce 8.8 in order to perform the migration from woo.com to woocommerce.com. As you may be aware, Woo has been navigating through challenges following the March 2024 Google Search algorithm update. This update had a significant impact on our organic traffic, particularly after our…
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WooCommerce 8.8 is Delayed
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Update April 17: WooCommerce 8.8 has been released as WooCommerce 8.8.2. Learn more here. Note: WooCommerce 8.8 release has been further delayed due to an issue detected during testing. To ensure stability and give our teams time to fix this, we will roll out the release as 8.8.2 on the week of April 15 instead.…
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Changes to Store API loading for performance
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The Store API provides a public endpoint for customer-facing cart, checkout, and product functionality. You can read more about Store API on the GitHub documentation page: WooCommerce Store API. When a WooCommerce block, such as the mini cart block or the product collection block is being used on a public page, we preload a response…
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WooCommerce 8.8: A new way to customize your store, and more
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WooCommerce 8.8 has been released! This post will highlight what’s included in this version of WooCommerce. See our update guide.Download directly from WordPress.org. Other important information: Latest version: 👉 WooCommerce 8.8.3 About: Release Schedule:
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Introducing A New Extension to Facilitate Woo.com Product Updates
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Update (March 27th 2024): We’ve received some questions around the impacts of Woo.com Update Manager for developers and store owners. We’ve added a Q&A at the bottom of this post with some more information. Learn more. We’re introducing an update to the management of Woo.com extensions and themes. The new Woo.com Update Manager extension To…
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Coming in WooCommerce 8.8: Making Product Onboarding and Product Tours Extensible
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In WooCommerce 8.8, we’re introducing two new filters to make the product onboarding checklist and product creation tour more extensible
