Darren Ethier

What you follow affects how you lead. Married. Father of 4. Engineering Director @automattic. Adventure is life.

[Develop with Woo @DevelopWoo]

WooCommerce 11.3 introduces an experimental API enabling extensions to add their data to WooCommerce MCP Abilities https://t.co/i0YWwzFW5c

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

These changes are intended to achieve some of the goals you outlined here. The original woocommerce/mcp was never released as stable - but it and lessons from the original experimental abilities helped inform the current direction.

Aligning with the official WP adapter means a single connection point for stores. It’s also looking like it’s heading to WordPress core.

[Matt Mullenweg @photomatt]

@0xblacklight Don't forget to check out the @automattic https://t.co/ksy61xAqO5 , it's at a similar level as the big four.

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

Eyeball it 👁️ I was 98.9% accurate
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How good is your eye? https://t.co/NSYPs0VhwB

[Brian Coords 💻 @briancoords]

The WordPress MCP is getting better each release. At @DevelopWoo, we're building on top of core's open foundation so that one MCP offers all the functionality.

Read the first of a few MCP-related updates coming in WooCommerce 11.3.

https://t.co/wQnZL5RJhH

[segmentation fault. @rtio_dev]

One of the coolest things about working behind the scenes on one of the world's largest web platforms is seeing this kind of work happen.

All WordPress and WooCommerce sites hosted by Automattic are already protected against the recently disclosed PHP security vulnerabilities. Our teams worked closely with the PHP Security Team to make sure protections were in place as quickly as possible.

That's the kind of engineering work that often goes unnoticed, but makes a massive difference at scale. 🙂

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

This was a bad one. It was soooo nice not having to worry about my personal site through all this.

Also a good reminder, folks, to make sure who ever you host with is running the latest version of PHP. Woo works on older versions but y'all really should update.

[Develop with Woo @DevelopWoo]

The PHP project has announced a security release that fixes two critical security vulnerabilities discovered in PHP. Store owners are encouraged to immediately update their installations of PHP. https://t.co/LjOcG4IUyL

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

Bring yo agent to Woo. Sell things. Buy things. This is just one piece of so much more coming to Woo (psst, you can already do a lot)

[Brian Coords 💻 @briancoords]

The WordPress MCP is getting better each release. At @DevelopWoo, we're building on top of core's open foundation so that one MCP offers all the functionality.

Read the first of a few MCP-related updates coming in WooCommerce 11.3.

https://t.co/wQnZL5RJhH

[Luigi Teschio @gigitux]

Making the connection between the Shop page and Product Catalog template simpler in WooCommerce ✨

This PR shows the Product Catalog template by default when you open the Shop page editor.

[Develop with Woo @DevelopWoo]

The Purple theme development has transitioned to the WooCommerce monorepo, enhancing collaboration and maintenance while remaining a standalone WordPress theme with independent releases. https://t.co/DkxYtDnxjw

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

I see you managed to do https://t.co/OA2iBGNPDW too!

It took a bit longer 10 hours over here, but I got @woocommerce up at https://t.co/Iakf677J7g. Also , 100% free and open source.

[Rich Tabor @richtabor]

i had 12 ChatGPT agents running in parallel for 6 hours and i managed to reverse engineer @WordPress.

i’m making it available here so you can save your tokens - 100% free & open source.

https://t.co/yL8RlEttTU

[Tung Du @dinhtungdu]

The sale badge got a major update in the next version of #WooCommerce

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

The Product Template gains spacing, border and shadow controls. Catalog Sorting and Product Results Count gain typography, spacing and background controls, giving you more styling options in the editor.

https://t.co/wtqRSLIy99

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

I missed last week's roundup because I was eating 🦃 and enjoying 🇨🇦 thanksgiving with my fam. But I'm back this week with a list of merged to WooCommerce core.

There were over 150 PRs merged last week! Here's a few...

[Darren Ethier @nerrad]

Nice translation fix where product, Cart and Checkout block names and descriptions use the editor's language where translations are available, instead of unexpectedly appearing in English.

https://t.co/IzaockXZnI