WooCommerce team is going all in on the “blockification” of WooCommerce. To help in communicating these changes they have started to share monthly updates, or “extensibility snaps.” I noticed from the comments in the October update that it appears that 3rd party developers may need to re-integrate their plugins to work with the new blocks.

This article talks about the new direction for WooCommerce, emphasizing WooExpress as a competitor to Shopify.

This is an interesting podcast interview with Katie Keith where she shares about her WordPress journey, her take on the economy, lifetime licenses, and running her own business.

WooCommerce is rebranding to Woo.

This video walks-through changes coming to the WooCommerce editor page, which are currently in beta.

Here are some highlights from the State of the Woo 2023 keynote. Interesting that 33% of the top 1 million online store are powered by WooCommerce.

Stackable Blocks adds support for WooCommerce dynamic data and other enhancements. Note also the roadmap graphic near the top of the article, which is nice to see.

IconicWP, makers of WooCommerce plugins, announced that they are moving from Freemius to WooCommerce. It makes sense as now they can use their own products in their store and checkout. In the announcement they mentioned that the switch provides a more streamlined user experience and enhanced security.

In acquisition news, Barn2 Plugins purchased the WooCommerce Product Tabs plugin.