Engineering Spotlight
Highlighting the minds behind Woo, this section showcases interviews, achievements, and insights from our engineering team and our developer community. Get inspired by the stories of innovation, challenges overcome, and the technical work driving WooCommerce forward.
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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… Read more
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A Conversation with William Staley
WooCommerce is excited to ring in the new year and celebrate big strides forward with developer-focused improvements like High-Performance Order Storage. As a Developer Advocate, I wanted to better understand… Read more
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How does WooCommerce Blocks render interactive blocks in the frontend?
As Gutenberg is starting to experiment with several approaches to render interactive blocks on the front end, for example using React, we wanted to share how this is currently done… Read more
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Improving Analytics Comparisons for Leap Years
It’s something many of us may not think about every day, but when leap year pops up every so often, the extra day it brings with it can present plenty… Read more
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Improving releases with automation
Overview To further streamline the software development lifecycle for WooCommerce and to help ensure a steady frequency of small, stable releases, the WooCommerce core team is taking steps to make… Read more
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Exploring Variation Filtering and Custom Tables
Many developers and merchants are likely familiar with a gap in WooCommerce’s functionality around filtering products based on their variations. This quirk makes it difficult for customers to find what… Read more
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Adopting Standardized Labeling Principles
As the number of developers building with WooCommerce continues to grow rapidly, we’re putting an increasing amount of effort into measures that will provide an easier onboarding experience for developers… Read more
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Brexit and Changes to WooCommerce Core Code
tl;dr While there are still many unknowns for eCommerce merchants as they pass across the January 01, 2021 Brexit transition deadline, the WooCommerce Core team is taking steps to ensure… Read more
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Introducing a New Order Status: checkout-draft
tl;dr There is a new order status coming to WooCommerce. While no immediate action is necessary, developers should familiarize themselves with it now because they may need to update their… Read more
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Available for testing – a block-based WooCommerce Cart and Checkout
In 2019 we launched a number of new WooCommerce Blocks, first via the WooCommerce Blocks plugin, and then via WooCommerce itself that have replaced a large number of the old… Read more