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  • Running the Claude Commerce Agent on WooCommerce

    Running the Claude Commerce Agent on WooCommerce

    Shani Banerjee Avatar
    Shani Banerjee

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    Sep 16, 2026


    Anthropic quietly released its experimental and open-source Claude Commerce Agent. We decided to dive in and get YOU set up to tinker with the WooCommerce Claude Commerce Agent store and… Read more

  • WooCommerce Subscriptions 9.2.0: settings updates and dev changes

    WooCommerce Subscriptions 9.2.0: settings updates and dev changes

    Vasily Belolapotkov Avatar
    Vasily Belolapotkov

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    Sep 8, 2026


    Dev Advisory: WooCommerce Subscriptions 9.2.0 has some notable updates and behavior changes. If you utilize the extension, please check out our latest post to see what ground we’ve covered! Read more

  • Proposed change: Requiring PHP 8.1 or newer for WooCommerce 11.5 and beyond

    Proposed change: Requiring PHP 8.1 or newer for WooCommerce 11.5 and beyond

    Brian Coords Avatar
    Brian Coords

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    Sep 8, 2026


    WooCommerce plans to raise the minimum PHP requirement to 8.1 for the January 2027 release. Share your feedback and concerns as we finalize the timeline. Read more

  • Retiring the magic strings: enum classes in WooCommerce core

    Retiring the magic strings: enum classes in WooCommerce core

    WesleyRosa Avatar
    WesleyRosa

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    Sep 2, 2026


    WooCommerce now ships named, documented constants for order statuses, product types, stock states, settings values, and more. Read more

  • Additional Variation Images included in WooCommerce 11.1

    Additional Variation Images included in WooCommerce 11.1

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    karolmanijak

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    Sep 1, 2026


    WooCommerce 11.1 fully integrates variation galleries, replacing the Additional Variation Images extension, with automatic migration of existing data and recommended developer actions. Read more

  • Introducing Order Withdrawal in WooCommerce 11.1

    Introducing Order Withdrawal in WooCommerce 11.1

    Sandip Mondal Avatar
    Sandip Mondal

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    Aug 27, 2026


    WooCommerce 11.1 introduces Order Withdrawal, allowing EU customers to request order withdrawals within 14 days. Store owners can enable this feature for improved customer service. Read more

  • Introducing Reconciliation Reports for WooPayments

    Introducing Reconciliation Reports for WooPayments

    oleksandraratovskyi Avatar
    oleksandraratovskyi

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    Aug 6, 2026


    WooPayments is introducing Reconciliation Reports that explain how the balance moves from the start to the end of the specified period. Read more

  • Our own newsletter took the site down

    Our own newsletter took the site down

    Michal Iwanow Avatar
    Michal Iwanow

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    Jul 31, 2026


    At 09:15 we sent a newsletter to 800,000 people, and 3 minutes later the site was down. No deploy, no attack: corporate email security bots had fetched every link at… Read more

  • How WooCommerce.com speeds up requests by loading fewer plugins

    How WooCommerce.com speeds up requests by loading fewer plugins

    Thilina Pituwala Avatar
    Thilina Pituwala

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    Jul 21, 2026


    WordPress loads every active plugin on every request. On a site the size of WooCommerce.com, that’s costly. Here’s how we load only the plugins each route needs cutting memory 50%+… Read more

  • Supporting high quality contributions to WooCommerce core

    Supporting high quality contributions to WooCommerce core

    Shani Banerjee Avatar
    Shani Banerjee

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    Jul 7, 2026


    WooCommerce Core now limits contributors without write access to 3 open PRs at a time. This helps maintainers keep review queues healthy while encouraging fewer, stronger, better-tested contributions. Read more

  • Auto-apply coupon: how 209 lines of code replaced ~13,000

    Auto-apply coupon: how 209 lines of code replaced ~13,000

    Boro Sitnikovski Avatar
    Boro Sitnikovski

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    Jul 1, 2026


    How we replaced a bulky tiered-pricing plugin with WooCommerce coupons and 200 lines of PHP, cutting 12,888 lines of code while surviving BFCM without coupon bugs or outages. Read more

  • What’s changing in Action Scheduler 4.0.0

    What’s changing in Action Scheduler 4.0.0

    Jorge Torres Avatar
    Jorge Torres

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    Jun 17, 2026


    Action Scheduler 4.0.0 is ready for testing and ships with WooCommerce 11.0 (July 28). Updates include failed actions now purge after 3 months, uniqueness checks include args, plus daily clean… Read more

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