Ana Ferreiro

@aferreiro · WooCommerce engineering · 06 ARTICLES

Covers the WooCommerce order lifecycle: checkout, HPOS, session handling, transactional email and the post-purchase layer where most storefront complaints actually originate.

WooCommerce & Storefront APIs & Integrations Frontend & Accessibility

001 Building Order Tracking in WooCommerce Without a Tracking Subscription Most post-purchase support tickets are "where is my order". Here is the plugin architecture that answers them without shipping customer data to a tracking service. WOO Ana Ferreiro 06 OCT 2026 · 7M 002 What Actually Changes When WooCommerce Orders Leave Postmeta On a store that has moved to HPOS, get_post_meta returns nothing and a direct wp_postmeta query returns stale rows. Here is what to replace both with. WOO Ana Ferreiro 31 AUG 2026 · 8M 003 The Checkout That Forgets the Cart, and the Five Things That Cause It WooCommerce keeps the cart in a table row that a cookie points at. Here is the order to check when a customer's session disappears at checkout. WOO Ana Ferreiro 23 JUL 2026 · 8M 004 Why WooCommerce Order Email Lands in Spam, and What Actually Fixes It WordPress sets the From header and leaves the envelope sender to the host. That mismatch is why SPF fails and DMARC buries the receipt. WOO Ana Ferreiro 07 MAY 2026 · 8M 005 Custom WooCommerce Order Statuses That Survive REST and WP-CLI A custom order status needs three registrations, not one. Get the hook timing wrong and orders quietly fall back to pending payment. WOO Ana Ferreiro 19 FEB 2026 · 7M 006 EXPLAIN as a Design Tool for WooCommerce Order Queries The orders screen sorts by date and filters by status. Read the EXPLAIN output first, because the write path pays for every index you add. INFRA Ana Ferreiro 20 NOV 2025 · 8M