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  • Integrating your Payment Method with Cart and Checkout Blocks
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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 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
    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…

  • WooCommerce 5.0 RC 2
    WooCommerce 5.0 RC 2

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

  • WooCommerce 5.0 Release Candidate
    WooCommerce 5.0 Release Candidate

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

  • January 28: Community Chat
    January 28: Community Chat

    Our next Community Chat is going to take place on January 28, 2021 at 18:00 UTC in the #core channel of the WooCommerce Community Slack. If you don’t already have access to the group,…

  • WooCommerce 4.9.2 fix release
    WooCommerce 4.9.2 fix release

    This fix release is a preparation for the upcoming 5.0 release and corrects the messaging of update notices to align them with the recently adopted versioning schema. Since going from 4.9 to 5.0 is…

  • WooCommerce 5.0 Beta 2
    WooCommerce 5.0 Beta 2

    WooCommerce 5.0 beta 2 is now available for testing! This version adds in the WooCommerce Admin version 1.9.0.You can either download it directly from WordPress.org or install our WooCommerce Beta Tester Plugin. This is a minor…