In the latest ACF live stream they demoed how the upcoming ACF 6.4 will support WooCommerce HPOS. This is the high performance Woo that uses custom database tables. It is great to see that ACF will be able to be used in that context.

Here are some results from the WooCommerce holiday trends survey. It is interesting that for some stores it accounts for a huge % of revenue. Also, the preparedness time frame is interesting.

Elementor has started offering ecommerce hosting plans.

WooCommerce XSS vulnerability notice. It has been patched, so there is an update available.

WooCommerce 9.0 Beta is scheduled for release tomorrow. This summary article lists the forthcoming changes.

When working with WooCommerce we often need some demo data. Katie Keith of Barn2 mentions two sources for Woo demo data sets.

Woo will use the new block theme Pattern Assembler UI to provide customization options during onboarding.

Sometimes you might want to disable the WooCommerce Checkout and Cart. This was mentioned recently in the group when someone wanted to possibly use Woo just to display a product catalog. Also you might want to disable the cart if you only have one product. Here is a tutorial for those types of use cases.

Acquisition – Barn2, developer of a number of WooCommerce plugins, sold of them 7 to Kestrel so that they could focus on the best performing ones.