From across Automattic.
Updates from all of Automattic’s business units.
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How to start selling online: Nail the decisions that matter most
Ready to sell online? Start with the decisions you'll live with for a long time: your site, hosting, and payments. Here's how to get them right.
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Enterprise Digital Transformation: Strategy, Requirements, and Best Practices
This article covers the essential definition of enterprise digital transformation, the core requirements for success, the tangible benefits for the business, and the best practices for implementation.
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WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 4
The fourth Release Candidate (“RC4”) for WordPress 7.0 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it’s recommended that you evaluate RC4 on a test server and site. Reaching this phase…
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How to build an image generation plugin with the WordPress AI Client
Learn how to use the WordPress AI Client to build a provider-agnostic plugin that generates images directly within the Media Library.
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Get Your WordCamp US 2026 Tickets
August 16–19, 2026, Phoenix Convention Center – Phoenix, Arizona Tickets are now available for WordCamp US 2026, taking place August 16–19, 2026, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The flagship event brings together people from across the WordPress community to learn, contribute, share ideas, connect with contributor teams, and help shape the future…
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Prebuilt WooCommerce for Claude workflows: uncover store insights hiding in plain sight
Prebuilt WooCommerce for Claude workflows turn live store data into guided AI reviews for revenue, products, customers, refunds, channels, payments, shipping, tax, and catalogue health. The post Prebuilt WooCommerce for Claude workflows: uncover store insights hiding in plain sight appeared first on The WooCommerce Developer Blog.
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Connect Your Research Identity with ORCID on Gravatar
Researchers, scholars, and contributors can now add their ORCID iD to their Gravatar profile as a verified account, making it easier to connect their research identity with their broader online presence.
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Ecommerce SEO in 2026: What to know when you’re starting out
Getting started with ecommerce SEO? Most of the noise can wait. Here are the basics that will do more for your visibility than anything else.
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What’s new for developers? (May 2026)
Stay up to date with the latest Gutenberg and WordPress 7.0 developer updates for May 2026, including the evolving content types system, new grid package, block improvements, API changes, and key fixes impacting themes, plugins, and editor workflows.
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WooCommerce 10.8: What’s coming for developers
WooCommerce 10.8 Beta is here. GraphQL for agents. Faster HPOS. Leaner Store API. Let's get to testing 🚀 The post WooCommerce 10.8: What’s coming for developers appeared first on The WooCommerce Developer Blog.
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Introducing canonical WooCommerce abilities for products and orders
WooCommerce 10.9 will introduce an initial set of canonical WooCommerce domain abilities in this major update to WooCommerce's approach to MCP and the Abilities API. The post Introducing canonical WooCommerce abilities for products and orders appeared first on The WooCommerce Developer Blog.
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Woo’s Artistic Director talks agentic commerce at Stripe Sessions
Watch Beau Lebens, Artistic Director of Woo, on stage at the annual Stripe Sessions conference to talk about agentic commerce. The post Woo’s Artistic Director talks agentic commerce at Stripe Sessions appeared first on The WooCommerce Developer Blog.
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Enterprise Ecommerce: Definition, Platforms, and Selection Guide
Enterprise ecommerce defined: benefits, platform types, core capabilities, selection criteria, and enterprise SEO strategy.
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Order update API endpoint now rejects non-order IDs in WooCommerce 10.8
WooCommerce 10.8 makes the Orders update endpoint reject non-shop_order IDs. Previously it silently converted them into orders. The post Order update API endpoint now rejects non-order IDs in WooCommerce 10.8 appeared first on The WooCommerce Developer Blog.
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The greatest job title I'll ever have
At Automattic, we have a Creed. This is the fourth line: I will build our business sustainably through passionate and loyal customers. Customers are central to everything we do. The Happiness Engineer title aims to capture how seriously we take that work. In 2007, when Matt Mullenweg posted Automattic’s first Happiness Engineer job listing, he…
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I Like the Shapes You Read
I care about text. Not just what it says, but how it looks and behaves on a layout. How it sits on a page, how it moves, how it breaks.
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2016, Again
The internet of 2016 is experiencing a nostalgic resurgence, characterized by grainy photos and old filters, as people long for a more personal and less performative online experience. Today's algorithm-driven landscape contrasts sharply with the simpler, more expressive connections of that time, prompting a renewed interest in blogging as a platform for authentic self-expression.
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Bringing Metadata to Life at Automattic with OpenMetadata
The metadata problem at scale Automattic’s data ecosystem is large and highly interconnected: thousands of Iceberg tables and views queried via Trino, thousands of Airflow tasks producing and updating them via Spark jobs, and a growing catalogue of Looker and Superset dashboards and charts on top. Most of the information about these assets exists somewhere,…
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From WordPress Agency to Enterprise Partner
rtCamp started as a tech publisher running on WordPress. What turned them into an enterprise partner was learning to sell solutions, not platforms. This is the story of that shift, and what agencies thinking about enterprise can take from it.
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WordPress 7.0 Release Candidate 3
The third Release Candidate (“RC3”) for WordPress 7.0 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it’s recommended that you evaluate RC3 on a test server and site. Reaching this phase…
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WordPress.com Changelog: AI Assistant Opt-in on All Current Paid Plans and A New Way to Build Sites from Your Terminal
More AI for more people, a new way to build with WordPress in the terminal, and a theme that turns blogging into a social feed.
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Even Better Simplenote MCP Server
Last month, we announced a basic MCP server for Simplenote which allowed macOS users to use their favorite AI tool to search their notes. Now we’re excited to announce an updated version which supports macOS, Windows, and Linux plus new functionality to make working with notes even better: How to use it Some example things…
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WooCommerce REST API docs have a new home
We've migrated the WooCommerce REST API documentation from its standalone site to our main developer documentation. The post WooCommerce REST API docs have a new home appeared first on The WooCommerce Developer Blog.
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WooCommerce for Claude – an experiment from Radical Speed Month
WooCommerce for Claude is available for early testing and feedback. Try it out! The post WooCommerce for Claude – an experiment from Radical Speed Month appeared first on The WooCommerce Developer Blog.
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Where Automattic Meets Up
Every week, Automattic teams are meeting in person across the globe. Let our research be your gain.
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Woo Design team joins X/Twitter — share your feedback
The Woo design team is now on X/Twitter and ready to hear from you! The post Woo Design team joins X/Twitter — share your feedback appeared first on The WooCommerce Developer Blog.
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Behind the Fiber-Optic Rope: Engineering WordCamp
Networking engineer Tyler Leeds explains how Automattic delivered rock-solid livestreamg from WordCamp Asia—and what's on tap for WordCamp EU in June.
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What I’d tell every ecommerce merchant about hosting before they launch
Weighing infrastructure options for your ecommerce site? Check out these hosting recommendations from the Head of WP Cloud, Jesse Friedman.
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An update for users in Brazil and the United Kingdom
An update for users in Brazil and the United KingdomTo continue our commitment to user safety and to comply with local laws, we will start using age groups to determine access to certain experiences.People in Brazil or in the UK, who are 18 or older, will soon need to verify their age to change content…
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Sales tax across state lines: What every growing ecommerce store needs to know
Here’s what every WooCommerce store operator should understand about sales tax compliance so you can protect the brand you’ve worked so hard to build.
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The AI ‘Marketing Recipes’ Enterprises Need for High-Performing Content Operations
It’s time to stop running AI in a siloed, ad-hoc fashion. Use this simple concept to test, learn, and execute.
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Get Involved With WordCamp US 2026 in Phoenix
WordCamp US 2026 will take place August 16–19 in Phoenix, Arizona, and applications are now open for sponsors, speakers, and volunteers. WordCamp US is the flagship gathering for the WordPress community in North America, where contributors, builders, and users come together to share ideas and help shape what comes next for the open web. Full…
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How WordPress Sent a Dog (and a Pop Culture Brand) to the Moon
The Pop Culture Monday site—and newsletter, and podcast—is an fun and irreveratnt testament to WordPress's flexibility.
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Go From Idea to Live Ecommerce Store in One Hour
Learn how to set up, design, and launch your own online store with WooCommerce on WordPress.com in our new free, self-paced course.
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Getting started writing WordPress E2E Tests with Playwright
Learn how to set up Playwright for WordPress E2E testing and write tests using real-world examples so you have a solid foundation to adapt for your own project.
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Introducing Subscriptions Health Check: A new way to monitor your subscriptions
Here's how to use the Subscriptions Health Checker in your WooCommerce dashboard to track missing renewals and auto-renewals — with more new features to come!
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