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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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
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WooCommerce 2016 core wishlist
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With 2015 and 2.5 (almost) out of the way, we’ve started looking forward to 2016 and the next major release. WC 2.6 has already been partially roadmapped on Github and on our roadmap Trello board,… Read more
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Time to start translating WooCommerce 2.5
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WooCommerce 2.5 will be released in January – the Release Candidate will be available between Jan 4th–8th 2016 just after we’ve recovered from our new year hangovers. That means we have around a month to translate 134 new strings… Read more
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New session handler in 2.5
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Being stateless, WordPress doesn’t have an in-built way of handling session data. You can use cookies. You can implement PHP Sessions, but both have limitations and some hosts aren’t equipped to deal with them by… Read more