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Developer Advisory: Changes in WooCommerce Core Beta Release Cycle

We are making an adjustment to the release cycle of WooCommerce Core Beta. Specifically, we’re shortening the Beta period from two weeks to one week. Monthly releases will remain on the second Tuesday of every month. The RC period is staying the same at one week. These changes stem from internal adjustments to our release […]

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Introducing the New Documentation Folder in the WooCommerce Monorepo

We’re excited to announce a significant step forward in enhancing the WooCommerce experience for our community. We have just launched a brand-new documentation folder within the WooCommerce monorepo, bringing us closer to a more comprehensive and user-friendly developer documentation experience. 🗺️ Addressing Your Concerns: We’ve been listening to your feedback and concerns about our documentation, […]

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Developer Advisory WooCommerce Blocks

Cart and Checkout Blocks: Becoming the Default Experience

In today’s highly competitive business landscape, merchants need a streamlined and optimized out-of-the-box checkout experience. WooCommerce has been investing in a new seamless checkout flow while harnessing the power of Blocks for easy look and feel customizations without the need for coding. The Cart and Checkout blocks offer conversion-optimized features and a simplified shopper flow. […]

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Developer Advisory WooCommerce Blocks

WooCommerce Blocks 10.7: Update to Utilize Block-specific Stylesheets

tl;dr As part of our initiative to enhance the Store Editing experience to allow for no-code customization, we are making some improvements to the way WooCommerce Blocks enqueues its stylesheets. Starting from WooCommerce Blocks 10.7 (released on July 18th) and WooCommerce core 8.1 (expected to be released on August 21st), WooCommerce Blocks will stop using […]

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Developer Advisory WooCommerce Blocks

Best practices for the use of the “cart fragments” API

Beginning with WooCommerce 7.8, we implemented a change that disables the cart fragments script from being enqueued on all page routes of a WooCommerce store by default. Responsible for updating the cart widget after a successful add-to-cart event, the script can cause performance issues on stores not using that functionality. Going forward the script will […]