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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.

  • Performance insights from refactoring our custom Block Registration in WooCommerce

    Performance insights from refactoring our custom Block Registration in WooCommerce

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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

  • Enhancing WooCommerce Checkout with Additional Checkout Fields

    Enhancing WooCommerce Checkout with Additional Checkout Fields

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    Mar 22, 2024


    From Experimental to Feature WooCommerce 8.7 introduces an enhancement for developers: the ability to introduce additional fields to the Checkout block. This feature comes with an emphasis on developer-friendliness, making… Read more

  • Performance Benchmarking for WooCommerce HPOS

    Performance Benchmarking for WooCommerce HPOS

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    Automattic

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    Mar 17, 2023


    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

  • A Conversation with William Staley

    A Conversation with William Staley

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    Shani Banerjee

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    Jan 23, 2023


    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

  • How does WooCommerce Blocks render interactive blocks in the frontend?

    How does WooCommerce Blocks render interactive blocks in the frontend?

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    Nadir Seghir

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    Nov 15, 2021


    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

  • Improving Analytics Comparisons for Leap Years

    Improving Analytics Comparisons for Leap Years

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    May 24, 2021


    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

  • Improving releases with automation

    Improving releases with automation

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    Apr 27, 2021


    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

  • Exploring Variation Filtering and Custom Tables

    Exploring Variation Filtering and Custom Tables

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    Mar 23, 2021


    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

  • Adopting Standardized Labeling Principles

    Adopting Standardized Labeling Principles

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    Jan 13, 2021


    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

  • Brexit and Changes to WooCommerce Core Code

    Brexit and Changes to WooCommerce Core Code

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    Jan 6, 2021


    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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