WooCommerce Developer Advocate Stephanie Pi just published an article about the future extensibility of WooCommerce which revolves around WooCommerce’s ongoing transition to a block-based framework, ensuring it remains flexible and extensible, especially in tandem with WordPress’s technical advancements. Key WooCommerce partner agencies shared insights on this transition, providing valuable feedback to address specific concerns and uphold WooCommerce’s core extensibility.
The transition aims to adopt new extensibility patterns from WordPress, enriching merchant and developer experiences. Despite challenges in product loop and cart/checkout customizations, solutions are being devised to ease this transition. For instance, new block hooks and custom blocks are being introduced to help with programmatic customizations.
Collaboration is a significant theme in this dialogue, where WooCommerce engineering leads and agency technical leads discuss challenges and solutions. This collaborative approach aims at tackling specific issues like modifying product loops, cart, and checkout blocks, to provide more flexible and streamlined solutions for developers.
Lastly, the article touches on the new product and order admin features, acknowledging the concerns on functionality with the new updates. WooCommerce aims to gather extensive feedback to ensure the new version maintains a high level of extensibility, similar to the current editor, to meet the diverse needs of developers and merchants.
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- Picture by Rachael Ren
