
July 7, 2025 marks the official release of WooCommerce 10.0a major release whose watchwords are simplification and personalization.
This update also brings significant improvements in accessibility, personalization and performance. Best of all, it also comes with a new new native theme dedicated to WooCommerce storesdesigned to take full advantage of WordPress block themes.
In summary, WooCommerce 10.0 brings :
- A faster, simpler and more accessible store.
- More personalization, especially for blocks and emails.
- A simplified user experience, from product page to checkout.
- Optimized backend performance for high-traffic sites.
👉 Here's a simple and effective summary of the new features to remember! And if your hosting isn't fast and secure yet, now's the time to choose WooCommerce-optimized web hosting.
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WooCommerce 10.0 highlights
First of all, here are the points put forward by WooCommerce itself.
Better accessibility
WooCommerce 10.0 now achieves full compliance with WCAG 2.2 level AA guidelines, and partial compliance at level AAA (the highest web accessibility standards).
This means that your WooCommerce store becomes much more accessible to people with disabilities, with:
- Improved HTML structure for optimized reading by screen readers.
- Clearer error and validation messages.
- Smoother keyboard navigation, especially in the shopping cart and purchase tunnel.
Simplified, shareable checkout
WooCommerce introduces the custom cart link feature: you can now create URLs that automatically pre-fill the cart and redirect directly to the checkout page.
Ideal for effective marketing campaigns on social networks or by email.
Basket and checkout improvements
- Postage calculations are simplified: no need to recalculate each time you change address.
- The display of totals in the basket is clearer and more streamlined.
- Loading animations are now limited to actions that are really necessary, for a faster, smoother experience.
Enriched CSV import
It is now possible to import product descriptions with HTML content directly via CSV files. A real time-saver for stores with complex catalogs.
Personalizing promotional labels
A new woocommerce_sale_badge_text
filter lets you personalize the text of discount badges displayed on product sheets, directly in WooCommerce blocks.
All the new features in WooCommerce 10
We've scoured the changelog complet to extract the essence of what's new for you. So, what's new in WooCommerce? Here's the full list.
✅ Improved accessibility and ergonomics
WooCommerce 10.0 continues its efforts to make stores accessible to all:
- Improved keyboard navigation (especially in product galleries and shopping carts).
- Corrected numerous display and navigation problems for screen reader users.
- Tables and lists (e.g. product filters and shopping cart) are now better structured and more accessible.
- Better management of contrasts, ARIA labels and alternative texts.
✅ More complete, simpler, more modern shopping experience
- Cart Block lightened: shipping cost calculation moved exclusively to the checkout, simplifying the shopping cart.
- Shareable basket links: creation of direct links to the checkout with pre-filled basket (ideal for marketing campaigns).
- Fewer unnecessary loads during checkout: animations are displayed only when necessary.
- Automatic adjustment of delivery options according to modified fields (faster, smoother).
✅ Product enhancements and customization
- CSV import now allows import of rich HTML content.
- New possibilities for personalizing promotional badges (text, dynamic display).
- Add to cart with options" block: more flexible, allows you to add grouped products and variations directly in the blocks.
- The product gallery has been completely redesigned for greater compatibility with the Product Image block and smoother navigation.
- Support for images with automatic aspect ratio in thumbnails.
✅ Improvements to the coupon and email system
- Enhanced validation in the coupon editor (caps, visible errors, etc.).
- New personalization options in the email editor: recipient management, new dynamic tags (discounts, addresses, transaction IDs, etc.).
- New email template: order cancellation notification sent directly to customers.
✅ Improved performance and reliability
- Optimized caching and SQL queries for faster customer and order management.
- Improved management of product variations for faster loading.
- Cleans up unnecessary cookies and sessions to lighten the system.
- Correction of numerous bugs related to imports, quantities, emails, mobile display, etc.
✅ Point of Sale (POS) support
- Gradual introduction of POS functionalities (Point of Sale) :
- Setting up physical stores.
- Customization of emails linked to POS orders.
- Display POS details in WooCommerce orders.
✅ Development and compatibility
- Minimum compatibility update: WordPress 6.7 required.
- Redesign of internal elements to improve block stability and management of new APIs.
- Improvements in testing and development tools.
- Cleaning of many obsolete components.
✅ Experiments and future blocks
- "Add to cart + Options" block (experimental): advanced customization of purchase forms.
- A new Gallery block product, with improved image management and accessibility.
- Enhanced compatibility with the Woo Block Theme, the new 100% block theme from WooCommerce.
These features will be stabilized in future versions, but are already available for testing.
The Woo Block Theme: a 100% theme optimized for WooCommerce
At the same time, WooCommerce launches its first native theme 100% bloc, designed to harness the full potential of modern stores.
This theme, still in the final stages of development, will be published free of charge on WordPress.org and offers :
- Full compatibility with new WooCommerce blocks.
- A sleek, ultra-fast design.
- Advanced customization directly via the WordPress site editor.
The Woo Block Theme will serve as a benchmark for all future WooCommerce theme developers.
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