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  • Making WooCommerce monorepo builds faster and lighter

    Making WooCommerce monorepo builds faster and lighter

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    Christopher Allford

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    Jun 5, 2026


    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

  • Introducing the WooCommerce dual API

    Introducing the WooCommerce dual API

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    konamiman

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    Jun 4, 2026


    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

  • Keeping track of commerce emails

    Keeping track of commerce emails

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    Job Thomas

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    Jun 3, 2026


    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

  • Expanding Abilities across WooCommerce Extensions

    Expanding Abilities across WooCommerce Extensions

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    Darren Ethier

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    Jun 1, 2026


    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

  • Keeping the WooCommerce GitHub backlog actionable

    Keeping the WooCommerce GitHub backlog actionable

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    James Kemp

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    May 29, 2026


    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

  • WooCommerce.com is now running on nightly WC Core: here’s why

    WooCommerce.com is now running on nightly WC Core: here’s why

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    Michal Iwanow

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    May 22, 2026


    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

  • Reimagining catalog management

    Reimagining catalog management

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    Veronica Fasulo

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    May 21, 2026


    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

  • Introducing canonical WooCommerce abilities for products and orders

    Introducing canonical WooCommerce abilities for products and orders

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    Darren Ethier

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    May 12, 2026


    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

  • Bug Blitz: How Woo’s happiness team crushed 150+ backlogged bugs

    Bug Blitz: How Woo’s happiness team crushed 150+ backlogged bugs

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    Job Thomas

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    Apr 8, 2026


    🪲 150+ bugs fixed in weeks. Here’s how Woo’s Happiness Engineers pulled it off. Read more

  • Performance insights from refactoring our custom Block Registration in WooCommerce

    Performance insights from refactoring our custom Block Registration in WooCommerce

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    Tom Cafferkey

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    Mar 5, 2025


    How did we achieve a 75% speed increase inside the block editor? 🚀 Check out our tips for managing performance bottlenecks in React. Read more

  • Elevating Ecommerce Accessibility: An Interview with Equalize Digital and WooCommerce’s Progress

    Elevating Ecommerce Accessibility: An Interview with Equalize Digital and WooCommerce’s Progress

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    Shani Banerjee

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    Aug 9, 2024


    In February 2024 a number of new accessibility issue tickets popped up in the WooCommerce backlog, they mostly came from one person – Amber Hinds of Equalize Digital. You may… Read more

  • HPOS Full-text search for orders is available in experimental mode

    HPOS Full-text search for orders is available in experimental mode

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    Automattic

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    Jun 4, 2024


    🎉 Exciting news! WooCommerce 9.0 will introduce Full-Text Search (FTS) indexes in experimental mode. Enjoy enhanced searchability with full-text search indexes for order addresses and products in HPOS! 🚀 Read more

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