WooCommerce, the powerful WordPress online store plugin, keeps growing. This spring (2019), version 3.6 was released with improved features, better performance, and faster load times.
Currently, WooCommerce is a free open-source e-commerce plugin used by more than 4 million websites, continuing to grow in popularity and capabilities.
Basic WooCommerce Features
- Essential online store elements such as product pages, shopping cart, checkout, shipping, and more.
- Flexible payment options like bank transfer, credit card, cash on delivery, and hundreds of specific payment gateways such as PayPal, Google Pay, Stripe, Apple Pay, etc.
- Dynamic pricing rules, recurring payments, bookings, memberships, and marketplaces.
- Integration with numerous shipping companies, flexible shipping options with different rates, zones, and specific countries, delivery tracking, and more.
- Integration with Google Analytics, MailChimp, Google Shopping, and other useful marketing tools.
- Easy integration with any other service thanks to its REST API.
- Centralized dashboard and monitoring through metrics and reporting tools.
- Hundreds of premium eCommerce themes for different sectors and business models with built-in WooCommerce support.
What’s New in WooCommerce
Let’s take a look at what’s new!
- Product pages now include support for Gutenberg blocks.
- The WooCommerce team has introduced eight new product blocks that allow editors to display products on any post or page and customize their layout.
- It’s now possible to seamlessly integrate content and offers into stores.
- Users can select predefined product groups or create custom groups of handpicked products. This feature comes from WordPress 5’s new Gutenberg editor, the most user-friendly and modern WYSIWYG.
- New admin panel with more customization options and improved management tools.
- WooCommerce 3.6 has enhanced product data search, making it more robust and efficient.
- Significant website performance improvements
- Overall load time reduction.
- Reduced load time for product listing pages (categories and attributes).
- Reduced load time for product pages with attributes.
- Over 60% reduction in load time during product ordering and filtering.
At Omitsis, we develop projects using the latest versions of WooCommerce and have extensive experience in building online stores. For any eCommerce development needs, we remain at our clients’ disposal.
If you have an online store project, we can help you!
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