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WooCommerce Blocks 10.7: Update to Utilize Block-specific Stylesheets

tl;dr As part of our initiative to enhance the Store Editing experience to allow for no-code customization, we are making some improvements to the way WooCommerce Blocks enqueues its stylesheets. Starting from WooCommerce Blocks 10.7 (released on July 18th) and WooCommerce core 8.1 (expected to be released on August 21st), WooCommerce Blocks will stop using […]

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Developer Advisory WooCommerce Blocks

Best practices for the use of the “cart fragments” API

Beginning with WooCommerce 7.8, we implemented a change that disables the cart fragments script from being enqueued on all page routes of a WooCommerce store by default. Responsible for updating the cart widget after a successful add-to-cart event, the script can cause performance issues on stores not using that functionality. Going forward the script will […]

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Developer Advisory WooCommerce Core

Vulnerability patched in several WooCommerce Extensions for payment processing

What you need to know Update: This post was updated June 15, 2023 to add all updated, backported versions of the WooCommerce Stripe Gateway. On April 16, 2023, a vulnerability was discovered in the WooCommerce Stripe extension. Once the issue was reported, our team prioritized fixing affected versions. While addressing the issue, we identified the […]

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Developer Advisory WooCommerce Core

New Requirement for WooCommerce 8.2: PHP 7.4+

The details The minimum PHP version required for WooCommerce was bumped from 7.2 to 7.3 in WooCommerce 7.7 in May 2023. As part of that announcement, we mentioned that during mid 2023, we would bump the PHP requirement for WooCommerce to 7.4. Starting with version 8.2, scheduled for release in October 2023, WooCommerce will require […]

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A Developer’s look at Woo Express

Beau Lebens, Head of Engineering at WooCommerce, recently sat down with Do the Woo and shared his insights on a new offering from Woo, Woo Express. If you haven’t heard the buzz, Woo Express is a managed version of WooCommerce that is hosted on the WordPress.com platform. It offers a convenient way to create a […]