Roadmap insights

Stay ahead with insights into what we’re working on at WooCommerce.

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    WooCommerce in 2024 and beyond: Roadmap update

    Beau Lebens

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    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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  • Coming Soon: WooCommerce Marketing Hub

    Gary Murray

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    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

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    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

    Claudio Sanches

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    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

    Todd Wilkens

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    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

    Mike Jolley

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    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

  • What should happen to the product type column on the admin Products screen?

    Claudiu Lodromanean

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    During the last WooCommerce developer chat we had a productive discussion about the usefulness of the product type icons on the admin Products screen. The topic was originally brought up in this GitHub issue and people… Read more

  • Coupon and cart improvements in 3.2

    Mike Jolley

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    For WooCommerce 3.2 we set out to tackle some long-standing issues with our coupon and cart classes to both improve test coverage, and make calculations more stable. For anyone who has looked under the hood… Read more

  • Improved logging in WooCommerce 2.7

    Jon Surrell

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    One of the changes coming in 2.7 is an improved log system. We’ve made a significant effort to address the limitations of the logger with a focus on extensibility. In this post I’ll outline the… Read more

  • New product gallery merged in to core for 2.7

    James Koster

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    Followers of this blog will know that we’ve been talking about the possibility of revamping our product gallery display on single product pages. This post is simply to document that this has now been confirmed and indeed merged… Read more

  • The New WooCommerce Product Image Gallery

    James Koster

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    A couple of weeks ago we posted about an experiment we were working on to improve the product galleries in WooCommerce, particularly the mobile experience. We laid out options to have a lightbox, a magnification/zoom, or both… Read more