Roadmap insights

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    WooCommerce in 2024 and beyond: Roadmap update

    Welcome to a special edition post, brought to you by Beau Lebens, Head of Engineering for Woo. Today, I’d like to share some insight into our plans for WooCommerce, Woo’s core product, over the course of the rest of the year and beyond.   In this post, I’ll outline our priorities for the coming year, highlighting…

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  • Peek into the WooCommerce Blocks Roadmap

    The WooCommerce team has been hard at work in bringing blocks to merchants and stores around the world. We believe strongly that blocks and full-site editing are important components for the future of WooCommerce so… Read more

  • Brace yourselves: new product filtering by attributes is coming

    The filtering of variable products in WooCommerce has been broken for some time. The problem appears when there are variable products where some variations have stock and others don’t, and the “hide out of stock… Read more

  • Request for comments: Removing the filter to turn off WooCommerce Admin

    Overview We are plotting a path that will eventually eliminate the ability for developers to programmatically disable WooCommerce Admin via the woocommerce_admin_disabled filter. We understand that many stores and extensions rely on this filter for… Read more

  • WooCommerce core release calendar

    Releases in the past year With WooCommerce 3.7 we started the journey towards smaller, more frequent, and more stable releases, with multiple fix releases being an exception rather than a rule. We got there by… Read more

  • Centralized Coupon Management – available for testing

    As was outlined in the post for the new WooCommerce Marketing Hub we are looking to make it the place from which merchants can manage all their marketing needs for their WooCommerce stores. As part… Read more

  • Coming Soon: WooCommerce Marketing Hub

    Our vision at WooCommerce is to democratize commerce. It’s why we’ve introduced WooCommerce Shipping, WooCommerce Tax, and most recently, WooCommerce Payments (Beta). These services — designed by WooCommerce, exclusively for WooCommerce stores — help thousands… Read more

  • WooCommerce Admin v0.23.1

    We are happy to announce the availability of a new build of the WooCommerce Admin feature plugin! If this is the first time you have heard about WooCommerce Admin, it is a new JavaScript-driven interface… Read more

  • New Minimum Requirements in WooCommerce 3.9

    When WooCommerce 3.9 is released in January, it will have new required versions of WordPress and PHP. Running WooCommerce 3.9 will require a site running WordPress 5.0 and PHP 7.0 or newer. We plan to… Read more

  • Extension Suggestions in 3.6

    One of the greatest strengths of WooCommerce as a platform is the ecosystem of powerful extensions that allow users to customize and adapt their online stores to address the unique needs of their businesses. In… Read more

  • Performance improvements in 3.6

    The upcoming release of 3.6 contains a plethora of performance enhancements that improve both admin and frontend page load times. This post summarises some of the smaller changes, and explains the reasoning behind some of… Read more