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How WooCommerce.com speeds up requests by loading fewer plugins
WordPress loads every active plugin on every request. On a site the size of WooCommerce.com, that’s costly. Here’s how we load only the plugins each route needs cutting memory 50%+… Read more
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Supporting high quality contributions to WooCommerce core
WooCommerce Core now limits contributors without write access to 3 open PRs at a time. This helps maintainers keep review queues healthy while encouraging fewer, stronger, better-tested contributions. Read more
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Auto-apply coupon: how 209 lines of code replaced ~13,000
How we replaced a bulky tiered-pricing plugin with WooCommerce coupons and 200 lines of PHP, cutting 12,888 lines of code while surviving BFCM without coupon bugs or outages. Read more
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What’s changing in Action Scheduler 4.0.0
Action Scheduler 4.0.0 is ready for testing and ships with WooCommerce 11.0 (July 28). Updates include failed actions now purge after 3 months, uniqueness checks include args, plus daily clean… Read more
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Making WooCommerce monorepo builds faster and lighter
The WooCommerce monorepo build pipeline rework dropped cold build time by 60%, watch ready time by 75%, and watch memory usage by 84%. Read more
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Introducing the WooCommerce dual API
WooCommerce 10.9 introduces an experimental dual API and GraphQL infrastructure. It consists of a code API using PHP classes, an autogenerated GraphQL API mirroring the code API, and a build… Read more
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Keeping track of commerce emails
WooCommerce 10.9 introduces transactional email logging to enhance troubleshooting. Merchants can now track sent emails, failures, and statuses, improving diagnostics for email processes in online stores. Read more
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Expanding Abilities across WooCommerce Extensions
WooCommerce has introduced domain abilities for products and orders, expanding to support extensions with read-only capabilities for data inspection and integration consistency across various tools. Read more
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Keeping the WooCommerce GitHub backlog actionable
WooCommerce is cleaning up its GitHub issue backlog by closing stale or incomplete issues, ensuring only relevant ones remain. Updated guidelines will improve contributions and streamline triage for maintainers. Read more
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WooCommerce.com is now running on nightly WC Core: here’s why
Why WooCommerce.com is now running on nightly WooCommerce Core builds, what it caught in the first two weeks, and where AI fits in Read more
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Reimagining catalog management
A proof-of-concept rebuild of WooCommerce’s All Products screen on WordPress DataViews — inline variations, bulk edit, and quick edit. Try it now and help shape what ships next. Read more
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Introducing canonical WooCommerce abilities for products and orders
WooCommerce 10.9 will introduce an initial set of canonical WooCommerce domain abilities in this major update to WooCommerce’s approach to MCP and the Abilities API. Read more
Engineering
How WooCommerce works under the hood — architecture decisions, performance analysis, and system design.
