Engineering

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

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

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

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

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

The WooCommerce monorepo build pipeline rework dropped cold build time by 60%, watch ready time by 75%, and watch memory usage by 84%. Read more

WooCommerce 10.9 introduces transactional email logging to enhance troubleshooting. Merchants can now track sent emails, failures, and statuses, improving diagnostics for email processes in online stores. Read more

WooCommerce has introduced domain abilities for products and orders, expanding to support extensions with read-only capabilities for data inspection and integration consistency across various tools. Read more

WooCommerce is cleaning up its GitHub issue backlog by closing stale or incomplete issues, ensuring only relevant ones remain. Updated guidelines will improve contributions and streamline triage for maintainers. Read more

Why WooCommerce.com is now running on nightly WooCommerce Core builds, what it caught in the first two weeks, and where AI fits in Read more