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  • Store Editing Roadmap Update – Q1 2023
    Store Editing Roadmap Update – Q1 2023

    It’s time for another look at our Store Editing roadmap. Our team has been hard at work creating a no-code, block-based solution to make store customization easy with WooCommerce. This roadmap provides a high-level…

  • Critical Vulnerability Patched in WooCommerce Payments – What You Need to Know (Sept 2023 Update)
    Critical Vulnerability Patched in WooCommerce Payments – What You Need to Know (Sept 2023 Update)

    September 6, 2023 UPDATE During the week of September 4, 2023, Woo began proactively contacting merchants via email who may still be using vulnerable versions of WooPayments. These emails to merchants are an important…

  • WooCommerce Blocks 9.8.1 and 9.8.2 Release Notes
    WooCommerce Blocks 9.8.1 and 9.8.2 Release Notes

    WooCommerce Blocks 9.8.2 is now available for download, this is a fix release that follows 9.8.1, which we released last week. These are the changes included: WC Blocks 9.8.1 Bug Fixes WC Blocks 9.8.2…

  • WooCommerce 7.5.1 Fix Release
    WooCommerce 7.5.1 Fix Release

    WooCommerce 7.5.1 is now available for download. What’s new? You can download the latest release of WooCommerce here or visit Dashboard → Updates to update the plugin from your WordPress admin screen. As usual, if you…

  • WooCommerce 7.6 Beta 1
    WooCommerce 7.6 Beta 1

    Beta 1 for the April 11 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…

  • Performance Benchmarking for WooCommerce HPOS
    Performance Benchmarking for WooCommerce HPOS

    Hello everyone, Since last year, we have been working on building and rolling out HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage) as an opt-in feature. This changes the way that we store the order data in the…

  • Store Editing Snaps: February 27 – March 10
    Store Editing Snaps: February 27 – March 10

    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.…

  • WooCommerce 7.5 Released
    WooCommerce 7.5 Released

    We are pleased to announce the release of WooCommerce 7.5.0. This release should be backwards compatible with the previous version. This release contains: As always, we recommend creating a backup of your site and making…

  • WooCommerce Blocks 9.8.0 Release Notes
    WooCommerce Blocks 9.8.0 Release Notes

    The latest version of WooCommerce Blocks, version 9.8.0, is now available for download on WordPress.org and GitHub. Notable Changes Better performance and look and feel for the Mini Cart block With this release, we…

  • A Week with Woo
    A Week with Woo

    We have a big week of events to interact with you, our community, coming up. Take a look at our upcoming synchronous chats and drop in to give us feedback, get answers to your questions,…

  • Subscriptions Plugin + HPOS Upgrade Party
    Subscriptions Plugin + HPOS Upgrade Party

    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…

  • Developer Office Hours: March Edition | Platform Leadership
    Developer Office Hours: March Edition | Platform Leadership

    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…

  • WC Blocks Extensibility Monthly Chat: March Edition
    WC Blocks Extensibility Monthly Chat: March Edition

    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…

  • High Performance Order Storage is (soon to be) the New Normal
    High Performance Order Storage is (soon to be) the New Normal

    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…

  • WooCommerce Subscriptions + HPOS: Understanding Next Steps
    WooCommerce Subscriptions + HPOS: Understanding Next Steps

    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…

  • WooCommerce 7.5 RC 1
    WooCommerce 7.5 RC 1

    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…

  • WooCommerce Blocks 9.7.0 & 9.7.1 Release Notes
    WooCommerce Blocks 9.7.0 & 9.7.1 Release Notes

    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…

  • Store Editing Snaps: February 13 – 24
    Store Editing Snaps: February 13 – 24

    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.…

  • WooCommerce 7.4.1 Fix Release
    WooCommerce 7.4.1 Fix Release

    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…

  • WooCommerce 7.5 Beta 2
    WooCommerce 7.5 Beta 2

    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…

  • Revisiting WordPress Core Support Policy for WooCommerce
    Revisiting WordPress Core Support Policy for WooCommerce

    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…

  • WooCommerce 7.5 Beta 1
    WooCommerce 7.5 Beta 1

    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…

  • WooCommerce Blocks 9.6.0 & 9.6.1 Release Notes
    WooCommerce Blocks 9.6.0 & 9.6.1 Release Notes

    A new version of WooCommerce Blocks has been released! Version 9.6.1 is now available for download from GitHub and WordPress.org. Notable changes Global Styles The Product Rating block has gained support for padding global styles, making it…

  • Store Editing Snaps: January 30 – February 10
    Store Editing Snaps: January 30 – February 10

    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.…

  • WooCommerce 7.4 Released
    WooCommerce 7.4 Released

    We are pleased to announce the release of WooCommerce 7.4.0. This release should be backwards compatible with the previous version. This release contains: As always, we recommend creating a backup of your site and making…