Woo recently added the option to store orders is custom tables for better performance. Meta Box works with it.

This will be of interest to those using WooCommerce who are ready for a change for the better. The FluentCart team has released FluentCart migrator to move stores from Woo to FluentCart.

Reddit’s deal with Google means that Reddit threads show up often in search results. This follows various pushes by Reddit for advertising on the platform. This post gives an overview of Reddit Ads for WooCommerce.

This article estimates the average cost for a WooCommerce store. I always imagined that Woo subscriptions were more expensive.

This post on X relates to several bugs in WooCommerce subscriptions that may have incorrectly paused subscription renewals. It applies to people who use WooCommerce Subscriptions and used HPOS before mid 2024.

Joost on Google’s new AI commerce plans. He raises concerns that many big ecommerce parties are involved, but not WooCommerce.

Here is a very interesting report of what happened when some large WooCommerce stores were moved to Shopify. It exposes some characteristics of the Shopify platform that might not be obvious.

Katie Keith runs Barn2, a plugin shop that sells a number of Woo extensions. She did a survey asking people why they choose WooCommerce. It is interesting to see, or be reminded, that WooCommerce is very flexible. Today with SureCart and FluentCart that flexibility and range of extensions is one of Woo’s advantages, if you need it.

The WooCommerce team has been working this year on a block-based theme as a successor to Storefront. It was apparently called “Purple.” It was about ready for release when the Woo team pulled it. They decided instead of include the patterns, templates and style variations in the WooCommerce plugin.