WordPress Core Feature Impact

WordPress 7.0 Locks Out WooCommerce Stores Below PHP 7.4 on May 20

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WordPress 7.0 ships May 20, 2026 with a PHP 7.4 minimum. Sites running PHP 7.2 or 7.3 will not receive the 7.0 update and stay permanently on the 6.9 branch. WooCommerce 10.6.2 already shipped admin updates “in preparation for WordPress 7.0” and the WooCommerce release train now co-evolves with WordPress majors. Frozen stores miss every WooCommerce 10.7+ improvement — including XSS hardening on the v4 REST API order notes endpoint, CSRF validation on product ordering AJAX, and the typed Fulfillments API for delivery-event ad-platform callbacks.

WooCommerce 10.7 Disabled HPOS Sync-on-Read. Your Tracking Is Failing.

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WooCommerce 10.7 shipped on April 14, 2026 with HPOS sync-on-read disabled by default (WooCommerce Developer Blog). For tracking plugins that still read order data from wp_postmeta, the next order is the first one that breaks. No admin warning, no error log, no banner in the dashboard — just a tracking plugin that suddenly returns empty … Read more

WordPress 6.8 Is Firing Your Pixel on Pages Users Never Visit

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WordPress 6.8 enabled Speculative Loading by default for logged-out visitors, and the feature now runs on millions of WordPress sites. When the browser prerenders a page, it executes all the JavaScript on that page — firing Meta Pixel, GA4 page_view events, TikTok Pixel, and WooCommerce tracking plugins even when the user never clicks through. Chrome already uses speculative loading on 11%+ of page loads globally. The durable fix is not disabling the feature but moving tracking to a first-party server that fires events on confirmed server actions (real orders, real form submissions), which prerendering cannot trigger.