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  • Expanding Abilities across WooCommerce Extensions

    Expanding Abilities across WooCommerce Extensions

    Darren Ethier Avatar
    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

    James Kemp Avatar
    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

    Michal Iwanow Avatar
    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

    Veronica Fasulo Avatar
    Veronica Fasulo

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    May 21, 2026


    A proof-of-concept rebuild of WooCommerce’s All Products screen on WordPress DataViews β€” 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

    Darren Ethier Avatar
    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

    Job Thomas Avatar
    Job Thomas

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    Apr 8, 2026


    πŸͺ² 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

    Tom Cafferkey Avatar
    Tom Cafferkey

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    Mar 5, 2025


    How did we achieve a 75% speed increase inside the block editor? πŸš€ 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

    Shani Banerjee Avatar
    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


    πŸŽ‰ 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! πŸš€ Read more

  • Enhancing WooCommerce Checkout with Additional Checkout Fields

    Enhancing WooCommerce Checkout with Additional Checkout Fields

    Shani Banerjee Avatar
    Shani Banerjee

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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

    Shani Banerjee Avatar
    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

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