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Important alerts and advisories for our developer community. This category houses critical updates, security notices, and essential information that impacts your development workflow with WooCommerce. Keep an eye here to stay informed and ensure your projects remain secure and up-to-date.

  • A Developer’s look at Woo Express

    A Developer’s look at Woo Express

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    Pi

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    Apr 17, 2023


    Beau Lebens, Head of Engineering at WooCommerce, recently sat down with Do the Woo and shared his insights on a new offering from Woo, Woo Express. If you haven’t heard… Read more

  • 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)

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    Beau Lebens

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    Mar 23, 2023


    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… Read more

  • Recent Action Scheduler Updates

    Recent Action Scheduler Updates

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    Shani Banerjee

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    Jan 17, 2023


    Action Scheduler is used in at least 18 different plugins amongst the 2500 most popular plugins on WordPress. These recent updates should help in the continuous improvement of Action Scheduler’s… Read more

  • New Requirement for WooCommerce 7.7: PHP 7.3+

    New Requirement for WooCommerce 7.7: PHP 7.3+

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    Jan 10, 2023


    The minimum PHP version required for WooCommerce was bumped from 7.0 to 7.2 in WooCommerce 6.5 in May 2022. Exactly one year later WooCommerce will take the next step: starting… Read more

  • Simplifying WooCommerce’s Repository Tooling

    Simplifying WooCommerce’s Repository Tooling

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    samuelseay

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    Dec 1, 2022


    WooCommerce is a complex project that needs powerful tooling for its development. However, over time, the commands needed to successfully manage a WooCommerce development environment have become more and more… Read more

  • WooCommerce 7.1.0 PHP Requirement Update

    WooCommerce 7.1.0 PHP Requirement Update

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    Nov 11, 2022


    WooCommerce 7.1.0 was released this past Tuesday, November 8. The release package included an inadvertent change that bumped the required PHP version to PHP 7.4. In the past, we’ve communicated… Read more

  • High-Performance Order Storage: Backward Compatibility and Synchronization

    High-Performance Order Storage: Backward Compatibility and Synchronization

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    Peter Fabian

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    Sep 29, 2022


    This is the second deep dive into the High-Performance Order Storage solution principles. Please find the links to all the chapters in the initial progress report. We understand that breaking… Read more

  • Plan to update WooCommerce block templates

    Plan to update WooCommerce block templates

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    Albert Juhé Lluveras

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    Aug 22, 2022


    We are planning to introduce some changes to the way WooCommerce templates work in block themes. Those include improving template hierarchy, creating a Products by Attribute template and adjusting how… Read more

  • Goodbye, Yoda conditions

    Goodbye, Yoda conditions

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    konamiman

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    Aug 11, 2022


    Update: after additional internal discussions we’ve decided to reverse this decision. WooCommerce will continue to use Yoda conditions as outlined in the WordPress PHP coding standards to stay aligned with… Read more

  • Stop Registering Customizer Options for Block Themes

    Stop Registering Customizer Options for Block Themes

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    Alba Rincón

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    Aug 11, 2022


    Update We have introduced some changes since this post was originally published and starting with WC 6.9, if a site has a block theme active, WooCommerce Customizer options are registered… Read more

  • Update to Action Scheduler Requirements

    Update to Action Scheduler Requirements

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    Barry Hughes

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    Jun 21, 2022


    We plan on bumping the minimum requirements for Action Scheduler in an upcoming release. The Details Currently, Action Scheduler requires at least PHP 5.6 but, principally in order to add… Read more

  • Introducing WooCommerce Monorepo

    Introducing WooCommerce Monorepo

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    Jun 10, 2022


    WooCommerce Admin’s code has now safely landed in Core WooCommerce repository, which has been transformed into a monorepo. This monorepo is now capable of unifying code across the WooCommerce platform… Read more

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