Roadmap insights
Stay ahead with insights into what we’re working on at WooCommerce.
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WooCommerce in 2025: Building a platform for the future
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WooCommerce is evolving. We’re bringing essential commerce features into core to create a more powerful platform for builder-supported stores at scale.
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Sneak Peek: WP CLI Support in WooCommerce 2.5
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WP CLI support is one of the features that’s included in WooCommerce 2.5 milestone. In case you haven’t heard WP-CLI: WP-CLI is a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations. You can update plugins,… Read more
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Caching and dynamic pricing – upcoming changes to the get_variation_prices method
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get_variation_prices was a method added in 2.4 to make it easy to retrieve an array of variation prices for a variable product. With this array, you can output pricing information in many different ways; core… Read more
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API Settings and the API Authentication Endpoint in 2.4
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API Settings In WooCommerce 2.4 we now have a tab in the settings dedicated to our Rest API. Previously these options were scattered around in the general and webhooks tab and user pages. These are… Read more
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New WooCommerce REST API wrappers
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Now we have wrappers for the WooCommerce REST API: PHP Node.JS Python Ruby It’s possible to find the documentation for each wrapper included within our official REST API docs: Soon we’ll have some new wrappers… Read more
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Custom AJAX Endpoints in 2.4
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WordPress core offers plugin developers a certain endpoint which they can use for AJAX requests. This endpoint is wp-admin/admin-ajax.php. Despite it’s naming, it can be used for both frontend and admin ajax requests, and can… Read more
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Improving the Variations Interface in 2.4
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In WooCommerce 2.4 we wanted to give users a better experience whilst working with variable products. Variable products have been a headache for some users whom needed to deal with many variations at the same time, mainly due to problems… Read more
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Making Geolocation Static Cache Friendly in 2.4
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WooCommerce 2.3 introduced a neat feature which allowed you to geolocate your customers to set their initial location, showing correct taxes and shipping values without the customer needing to input their address. Although this worked well,… Read more
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Simplifying Flat Rate Shipping in WC 2.4
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One of our main goals with the upcoming 2.4 release has been usability, particularly for new users. A good example of this being the new onboarding wizard which should help new users get started without seeing complex settings screens. Shipping… Read more
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Attention theme authors. Frontend changes ahead in WooCommerce 2.3.
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The Handsome Hippo is strutting along nicely and the release is beginning to take shape. As the name suggests the main focus for this release is UI and UX beautification which will result in some… Read more
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WC 2.3 Email Class Refactor and Enhancements
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WooCommerce 2.3 is still a ways out, but one of the things we’ve been working on is a better email class system in core. Primarily, we’ve refactored how emails are sent through WooCommerce. Any extension can… Read more