WooCommerce and Shopify development that survives updates.
Online stores change often and break expensively. Custom WooCommerce code has to survive plugin updates and the move to High-Performance Order Storage, and Shopify themes have to give merchants control without letting them break the layout.
This path covers both platforms: customising WooCommerce through hooks, template overrides and the CRUD API, and building Shopify Online Store 2.0 themes with JSON templates, sections and blocks.
Who it’s for: Developers building or maintaining WooCommerce and Shopify stores.
Start with lesson 1: Customizing WooCommerce without breaking updates: hooks, templates and HPOS
How modern Shopify themes are put together: JSON templates, sections with schema, blocks and presets, metafields and app blocks, with a reusable section and the Shopify CLI workflow.
Where WooCommerce stores lose speed and how to get it back: measuring first, controlling cart fragments, enabling HPOS, caching around carts and checkouts, trimming plugins and scripts, fast product images, database clean-up and a quicker checkout.
How to customize WooCommerce safely: product and cart hooks, template overrides that don't go stale, the block-based checkout, and writing order code that works with High-Performance Order Storage.