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  • WooCommerce 7.1 Adds Cart Block Cross-Sells, Includes High Performance Order Storage Behind a Feature Flag

    WooCommerce 7.1 Adds Cart Block Cross-Sells, Includes High Performance Order Storage Behind a Feature Flag

    WooCommerce 7.1 was released yesterday, delivering on time with the highly anticipated custom order tables feature, which was renamed to “High-Performance Order Storage” (HPOS). This is a major undertaking that implements custom tables for orders, products, and coupons, and promises significant performance gains for stores. Contributors have been working on HPOS throughout 2022 but have been…

    Sarah Gooding

  • WooCommerce Blocks 8.6.0 Introduces Cross-Sells Products Block

    WooCommerce Blocks 8.6.0 Introduces Cross-Sells Products Block

    WooCommerce Blocks 8.6.0 was released yesterday with support for a new block that displays cross-sells for products that are based on the current product in the customer’s cart. For example, if a customer is purchasing a new gardener’s kit, the store may cross-sell gardening gloves as a complementary product. This is a new feature is…

    Sarah Gooding

  • WooSesh Publishes Schedule Ahead of Virtual Event October 11-13, 2022

    WooSesh Publishes Schedule Ahead of Virtual Event October 11-13, 2022

    WooSesh, a virtual conference for WooCommerce professionals and store builders, has published the schedule for the upcoming three-day event beginning on October 11. This year’s lineup includes 24 speakers from across the WooCommerce ecosystem, including engineers, product managers, sales directors, and WooCommerce core developers. Each day of the event has a theme with sessions running…

    Sarah Gooding

  • WooCommerce 6.9 Released, High-Performance Order Storage Targeted for 7.1

    WooCommerce 6.9 Released, High-Performance Order Storage Targeted for 7.1

    WooCommerce 6.9 was released today and was quickly followed up with 6.9.1 after a bug caused some stores to produce a warning or a fatal error, depending on the site’s PHP version. This release brings the new Cart and Checkout blocks into core as beta features. These blocks have been available in the WooCommerce Blocks plugin since…

    Sarah Gooding

  • #42 – Marcel Schmitz on Finding Work With Codeable and Working With WooCommerce

    #42 – Marcel Schmitz on Finding Work With Codeable and Working With WooCommerce

    On the podcast today we have Marcel Schmitz. Marcel is a freelancer at Codeable for Pluginslab, a small agency based in Porto, Portugal. He builds solutions for WooCommerce, often connecting them with native mobile applications. We talk on the podcast today about the opportunities Codeable has offered him and how it fits in with his…

    Nathan Wrigley

  • WooCommerce.com Brings Back Sandbox Sites for Testing Extensions

    WooCommerce.com Brings Back Sandbox Sites for Testing Extensions

    WooCommerce.com is bringing back a feature that made it possible for customers to test extensions in a sandbox environment before purchasing them. Select extensions can be loaded up on a private test site for 30 days before the site self-destructs. Although WooCommerce.com already offers a 30 day money back guarantee if users are unhappy with…

    Sarah Gooding

  • YITH Wonder: A New Free WordPress Theme with Support for WooCommerce and Full-Site Editing

    YITH Wonder: A New Free WordPress Theme with Support for WooCommerce and Full-Site Editing

    YITH, a WooCommerce plugin development company that was acquired by Newfold Digital in March 2022, has released its first block theme on WordPress.org. YITH Wonder is now listed among 122 other block themes that support full-site editing and have recently gained their own menu link in the directory to improve their visibility. YITH Wonder includes…

    Sarah Gooding

  • Iconic Releases Flux Checkout 2.0 for WooCommerce with New Modern Theme

    Iconic Releases Flux Checkout 2.0 for WooCommerce with New Modern Theme

    Iconic has relaunched its Flux Checkout plugin with a new, modern checkout theme. The plugin was created to minimize customers abandoning their carts due to checkout complexity. It breaks the checkout experience into steps to make the process feel faster and simpler with a distraction-free design. Flux Checkout 2.0.0 adds a new “Modern” theme in…

    Sarah Gooding

  • WooCommerce to Stop Registering Customizer Options in Upcoming 6.9 Release

    WooCommerce to Stop Registering Customizer Options in Upcoming 6.9 Release

    WooCommerce is making a strong push towards getting the Customizer menu out of the admin for those who are using a block theme. In an effort to clean up the admin and eliminate confusion, the plugin will stop registering Customizer options when a block theme is active beginning with version 6.9. This will go into…

    Sarah Gooding

  • WooCommerce Plans to Bring Full-Site Editing Support to Single Product Templates

    WooCommerce Plans to Bring Full-Site Editing Support to Single Product Templates

    WooCommerce is moving closer to closing the gap on its full-site editing support with the latest features announced on the Q1/Q2 roadmap. While the e-commerce platform already has support for nearly two-dozen core blocks, it’s not yet possible to use full-site editing for customizing every aspect of a store. The concept of “Store Editing” is…

    Sarah Gooding

  • WooCommerce Store API Now Stable, Provides Better Support for Custom Frontends

    WooCommerce Store API Now Stable, Provides Better Support for Custom Frontends

    WooCommerce announced today that its new Store API is now stable after two years in development. It powers the plugin’s new block-based cart and checkout experience as well as all products blocks. The Store API is a public, unauthenticated API, that provides REST API endpoints for cart, checkout, and product functionality. WooCommerce core developer Mike…

    Sarah Gooding

  • Newfold Digital Acquires YITH to Expand WooCommerce Expertise

    Newfold Digital Acquires YITH to Expand WooCommerce Expertise

    Newfold Digital, the parent company of Bluehost, Yoast, and Web.com, has acquired YITH, a WordPress plugin company with more than 100 WooCommerce extensions. YITH’s has more than 2.3 million active installs across its suite of products. The company hosts 31 plugins on WordPress.org, many that are lite versions with commercial upgrades. YITH’s most popular product,…

    Sarah Gooding

  • WooCommerce 6.3 to Introduce New Product Filtering by Attributes

    WooCommerce 6.3 to Introduce New Product Filtering by Attributes

    The WooCommerce development team released the first RC for version 6.3 this week. The upcoming major release is expected on March 8, 2022, and is set to introduce an exciting, long-awaited feature: a new lookup table that will offer the ability the accurately filter products by attributes. Shop owners who sell variable items have been…

    Sarah Gooding