WooCommerce 10.2 Brings Carousel Layouts, Checkout Upgrades, and Fulfillment Beta
WooCommerce 10.2 became available on September 16, 2025, and brings a wide set of improvements for merchants, developers, and shoppers alike. This update includes a database change, but remains fully backwards compatible. It was built with contributions from 64 developers across 326 commits, showing how active the WooCommerce ecosystem continues to be.
The latest patch, WooCommerce 10.2.1, is also live and ready for download on WordPress.org.
Product Collection Carousel
One of the most visible updates is the new carousel layout for Product Collection blocks. Stores can now present products in a horizontally scrollable, mobile-friendly format. Merchants have full control over styling the navigation arrows and positioning, making it easier to integrate the carousel into custom storefront designs.
Cross-Sells Integrated Into Product Collection
The Cart Cross-Sells block has been replaced with a Cross-Sells collection powered by the Product Collection block. This new approach offers richer display settings, and store owners can easily migrate using a built-in Transform option. For new stores, the old Cross-Sells block will no longer be the default.
Checkout and Cart Performance Gains
The Checkout experience continues to improve. The Cart block now renders instantly using skeleton placeholders, while live data loads in the background. Discounts, shipping options, and express checkout actions now trigger smoother partial updates, ensuring clear and responsive feedback for shoppers – even on slow connections.
Simplified Block Templates
WooCommerce templates now use the WordPress Template Registration API, creating a cleaner template list under Site Editor. This change resolves long-standing bugs, ensures more predictable customizations across theme changes, and makes the codebase easier to maintain. Developers will find the template workflow more intuitive and reliable.
New Taxonomy Filter Block
Filtering gets a major upgrade with the introduction of Taxonomy Filter blocks for Category, Brand, and Tag. These filters, powered by the Interactivity API, let shoppers combine multiple criteria to refine searches with precision. Developers can further extend these filters to fit niche storefront needs.
Improved Analytics and Store Launch Flow
WooCommerce 10.2 also refines core merchant tools:
- Analytics now properly reflects full refunds in all key reports, improves performance with deleted products, and fixes CSV export duplication issues.
- Onboarding flow for new stores has been optimized for mobile and tablet, offering better readability, smoother touch interactions, and improved layouts.
Experimental and Beta Features
Two important beta features are included in this release:
- Product Gallery (Beta): Merchants can now choose aspect ratios for product images instead of being forced into square formats. This allows for cleaner layouts on Single Product pages.
- Order Fulfillments (Beta): WooCommerce introduces built-in shipment tracking and split fulfillment handling. Merchants can manage shipments in draft or fulfilled states, while developers gain a new REST API and extensibility hooks.
What This Means for Merchants
WooCommerce 10.2 is not just a feature release – it also lays groundwork for future stability and extensibility. The new blocks give merchants more flexibility in showcasing and filtering products, checkout improvements reduce cart abandonment risk, and beta features point toward more robust native fulfillment tools.
Since this release does include a database update, merchants should follow the official update guide before upgrading.
