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Welcome back to WooWeekly—where ~20,000 WooCommerce builders come each week for actionable tips, sharp insights, and the occasional strong opinion.
Our trip to Vienna went really well. It was my third time there, and I have to say—it’s such a great city, especially with family. Everything just feels easy, relaxed, and well set up for kids. Safe to say we’ll be back.
On the business side, I’m in the final sprint for Checkout Summit 2026, but it’s still business as usual. Tomorrow, Dave and I are running a class where he’ll share a pretty bold take on where WooCommerce could go next—rethinking the Woo admin from a merchant-first perspective and questioning a few things that maybe we’ve all accepted for too long. There are still a few seats left if you want to join us: https://www.businessbloomer.com/class/woocommerce-in-2027-the-new-admin-design/
Anyhow, here comes your weekly round-up of WooCommerce tips and tricks. Enjoy!
Rodolfo Melogli
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WooCommerce Devs: WordPress Drama Won’t Stop Us
After a relatively quieter stretch, the WordPress ecosystem is noisy again. We’re back to social media spats, endless threads about contributions, and who’s a “cancer” to the project.
It’s exhausting. And it’s distracting millions of us who just want to build.
WordPress drama won’t stop us. It never has, and it never will.
~Rodolfo
WooCommerce Insights
Here is a collection of posts to answer your biggest WooCommerce questions. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced store owner, these resources will help you optimize your WooCommerce store and grow your online business.
How to Set up Conditional Logic for WooCommerce Product Variations
Standard variations just display everything at once, which can make the variable product page confusing for customers.
This guide shows how to fix that with Advanced Product Fields for WooCommerce. With conditional logic, you can hide or reveal options based on customer selections, keeping the product page clean and intuitive. It walks you through setup step by step, and if you’re new to conditional logic, it even points to a great starter article.
If you’ve ever wanted smarter product pages without adding endless variations, this is the guide you need.
Learn more on Studio Wombat Blog
How to Fix Slow Third-Party Scripts in WooCommerce (Without Removing Them)
Tracking pixels, chat widgets, analytics… they add up quickly and quietly drag performance down.
This guide explains how to deal with that without removing the tools you rely on. The key idea is simple: delay non-essential JavaScript until the user actually interacts with the page. It then walks through a practical checklist to make it happen.
If your PageSpeed score isn’t where you want it—or your store just feels sluggish—this is a smart way to speed things up without sacrificing functionality.
Learn more on CommerceGurus Blog
How to Add Frequently Bought Together to Your Online Store
A simple “Frequently Bought Together” section can have a surprisingly big impact on average order value.
This guide walks you through everything you need to add one to your own store. It explains what these sections are, why they work so well, and shares tips for making the most of them.
If you’ve been looking for an easy way to boost sales without redesigning your product pages, this article shows exactly how to do it.
WooCommerce Live Masterclasses & Cohorts
Our private community of Woo professionals – the Business Bloomer Club – gives members lifetime access to (1) WooCommerce human support, (2) WooCommerce online courses and cohorts, (3) WooCommerce webinar recordings, and (4) member-only resources. Once or twice a month, however, we run free live masterclasses open to everyone.
- [Mar 19] WooCommerce in 2027: The New Admin Design (through a concept redesign, I’ll highlight what’s broken, what feels outdated, and how a cleaner, more modern dashboard could make WooCommerce easier to use, build on, and trust). Free registration
Missed a class? No worries — you can catch up anytime with our growing archive of 25+ recorded sessions packed with WooCommerce insights.
WooCommerce Videos
| WooCommerce 10.4: How to Replace wc_enqueue_js() In this video, I walk you through the newly-announced deprecation of wc_enqueue_js() in WooCommerce 10.4. The good news: WooCommerce provided an alternative approach, so I tested the new method live using one of my snippets. [YouTube/Business Bloomer] |
| The Simplest WooCommerce Black Friday Topbar [Tutorial] In this tutorial, I show how to add a Black Friday topbar to a WooCommerce website in just a few minutes, without installing any plugins. This is done directly on a live site so you can follow the exact steps and understand how simple the process really is. [YouTube/Business Bloomer] |
| Bye Bye WooCommerce? My First Look at FluentCart FluentCart has just landed on the official WordPress plugin repository, and many are wondering — could this be a real WooCommerce alternative? [YouTube/Business Bloomer] |
| From Storefront to Shoptimizer: Full WooCommerce Theme Migration Walkthrough After years of running my WooCommerce site on Storefront, I finally decided it was time to step up. In this full 60-minute walkthrough, I take you behind the scenes of my complete WooCommerce theme migration — from Storefront to Shoptimizer. [YouTube/Business Bloomer] |
| I tried the Shopify WordPress plugin (so you don’t pay for a trial) In this video, I test Shopify’s new WordPress plugin so you don’t have to pay for the trial yourself. As someone with 13+ years of WooCommerce experience, I’m both excited and a bit nervous about this new competitor—but good competition always keeps things interesting! [YouTube/Business Bloomer] |
| How To Charge Shipping by Cart Weight in WooCommerce (Without Coding) Struggling to set up shipping in WooCommerce based on cart weight? WooCommerce doesn’t let you do it easily out of the box. [YouTube/Business Bloomer] |
| Ditching a WooCommerce Plugin (3 episodes) Tired of using bloated WooCommerce plugins when you only need a small part of their functionality? In this 3-part series, I walk you through the full process of replacing a WooCommerce plugin with clean, custom code — from planning to writing to testing. [YouTube/Business Bloomer] |
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Advanced Shipping Rates for WooCommerce is the most flexible all-in-one shipping table rate plugin. With 38 combinable conditions, you can easily set precise shipping costs—from the simplest to the most complex cases. It gives you code-like power with 15 special actions, a packing algorithm, product grouping, and ranges based on 7 distinct criteria. It comes with 60 ready-to-use examples, multilingual and multi-currency support, and a built-in logging system. Get a 20% discount with coupon code BBLOOMER
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