WooCommerce 11.3 was released on November 11, 2026. Undoubtedly, this release matters to store owners and users alike. It also adds more styling controls, flexible On-Sale Badges, and smoother mobile swiping in Product Galleries to improve the Purple block theme experience.
This blog post describes the features and improvements in WooCommerce 11.3.
More Options for the On-Sale Badge block
The On-Sale Badge block helps showcase the discount amount or percentage, or custom text. Users can use this block across product collections and galleries, with full styling controls. The block can be designed and configured without additional code.
More Styling Options Come to WooCommerce Blocks
Our team expanded styling options for numerous blocks, including Product, Featured Product, Featured Category, and Product Categories List. We added new controls for spacing, borders, and colors, with options tailored to each block.
Users can also use the Featured Category block within the Terms Query block to showcase a collection of product categories in a unified way, with custom designs.
WooCommerce 11.3 also introduced more customizable Product Result Count and Catalog Sorting.
Product Gallery Swipes on Mobile
This release has also enhanced mobile gesture support in the Product Gallery block based on user feedback. Thanks to native scrolling and scroll snap, images now follow the user’s finger and respond to quick flicks with natural momentum.
Set Refund and Returns Policy Pages
Store owners or merchants can set their refund and returns policy page through Settings > Advanced > Page setup. The selected page is present in the Pages list.
For better findability, WooCommerce uses structured data linking to the selected policy page and exposes its link to search engines without using custom markup.
WooCommerce MCP Updates
WooCommerce 11.3 deprecates the/wp-json/woocommerce/mcp endpoint and its REST API key connection path. The release also stopped bundling the MCP Adapter and Abilities API packages. As you may know, core product and order abilities are enabled by default.
Customers can use the WordPress MCP Adapter plugin and a WordPress application password to access them through MCP. If developers still use the old endpoint, they can follow the WooCommerce 11.3 MCP Adaptor updates to migrate.
The experimental Extensible Abilities API is turned off by default. When extensions are activated, they can incorporate their fields into product and order ability reads, support fields in product writes, and register query filters and validators.
Remember, the API is still changing, and the team has asked extension developers to test it outside production. You can review the call for testing: Extensible abilities for extension fields for examples, known gaps, and the feedback discussion.
Purple, the Official Block Theme, is Available
Woo’s official block theme, Purple, is available in the WordPress theme directory, the Woo marketplace, and the WordPress.com theme directory.
For contributors, theme development has moved to the WooCommerce monorepo. As a result, users can monitor issues and PRs alongside WooCommerce.
WooCommerce Beta Tester 4.00 Released
Fortunately, WooCommerce Beta Tester 4.0.0 helps users examine upcoming WooCommerce releases. So, update the plugin before testing the 11.3 prerelease.
This version enhances switching away from Live Branch builds and adds a template-loading tool to WCA Test Helper.
Remember to use it on a non-production site running WordPress 6.8 or newer.
What Developers and Store Owners Should Know Before Using WooCommerce 11.3?
Developers and store owners should keep several things in mind before updating to WooCommerce 11.3. These are:
- Several product-related endpoints have been updated so that the include and exclude parameters work more predictably when used with the on_sale parameter.
- In WooCommerce 11.3, POST /wp-json/wc/v3/orders/{order_id}/refunds confirms explicitly supplied line-item refund amounts before creating a refund.
- Product Collection benefits from the same filtering engine as the Product Filters blocks for URL filters. This applies to collections with filtering enabled that don’t inherit the template query.
- WooCommerce 11.3 updates how the Single Product block passes product context to nested blocks. The previous implementation monitored descendant block names and could have leaked context into nested Product Collection, Query, or Single Product blocks.
Wrapping Up
WooCommerce 11.3 was officially released on November 11, 2026. These features and enhancements can significantly improve WooCommerce store performance. Therefore, benefit from this results-driven release by focusing on the right direction and intent.
