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
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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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What should happen to the product type column on the admin Products screen?
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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
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Coupon and cart improvements in 3.2
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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
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Improved logging in WooCommerce 2.7
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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
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New product gallery merged in to core for 2.7
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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
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The New WooCommerce Product Image Gallery
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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
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A new product gallery coming to 2.7. Maybe.
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The product image galleries in WooCommerce basically haven’t changed since version 1. The layout is fine, but the lightbox functionality is looking more than a little tired. Most importantly the experience on smaller handheld devices is… Read more
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Tabbed “My Account” pages in 2.6
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The “My Account” pages in WooCommerce are highly important for customers as it’s where you can access orders, available downloads, and address/account information. Plugins can also add data to the account page if they need to, such… Read more
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Payment Token API in 2.6
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WooCommerce 2.6 will ship with a payment tokenization API. This makes it easier to store, manipulate, and retrieve payment info in a standardized way. Payment methods saved using the API can be managed from the… Read more
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Shipping Zones to ship with 2.6
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Currently when shipping goods with WooCommerce you can use one of the core shipping methods (flat rate, international, local pickup). Each method can be used once, and availability is configured per shipping method. Whilst this system is simple,… Read more