The way you build for WooCommerce has changed. Block-based checkout, High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS), and AI-assisted coding have changed the day-to-day work of building and customizing stores.
In this episode of Do the Woo, hosts James Kemp from Woo and Katie Keith from Barn2 talk with Brian Coords, Developer Advocate at Woo, about the tools and workflows behind building and maintaining WooCommerce stores for clients. Part of Brian’s job is bridging Woo’s internal engineers and the wider developer community, so he has a clear view of how people are actually building on WooCommerce right now.
We get into the practical side of WooCommerce development – setting up local environments, extending WooCommerce the right way with hooks and the block-based cart and checkout, building custom blocks, and testing and debugging before anything reaches a live store. We also talk about where AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor fit into a real workflow: What they’re useful for in practice, and where they still need a developer in the loop.
This conversation is for agencies and freelance developers who build WooCommerce stores for merchants and want concrete ways to work faster without cutting corners.
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