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This is Colm and Simon from CommerceGurus, with a handpicked weekly roundup of eCommerce articles.
We’re getting very close to launching CommerceGurus Turbo!
This is our brand new performance-focused plugin designed to help WooCommerce stores load faster, feel smoother, and score better across Core Web Vitals.
CommerceGurus Turbo includes a range of incredible optimisations focused specifically on eCommerce stores, helping reduce unnecessary frontend bloat and improve the shopping experience without the complexity of juggling multiple performance plugins.
As a thank you to early supporters, we’ll be sending a special VIP launch link on Monday, May 25th with 50% off the list price.
But it will only be available to people on the VIP Waitlist. If you’d like access to the launch offer, make sure you join the list before then!
Join the CommerceGurus Turbo Waitlist
🎉 Introducing CommerceGurus Turbo!
One plugin. One click. CommerceGurus Turbo is the only performance plugin built purely for WooCommerce stores.
Includes page and edge caching, CSS and JS optimization, lazy loading, Cloudflare image optimization, and preloading — all with safe defaults that work immediately.
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WordPress 7.0 is now available and it's a big, big update.
It focuses on giving users more control over design, navigation, performance, and emerging AI integrations.
The release adds several practical improvements across the editor and admin experience.
Visual revisions make it easier to review changes block by block and restore earlier versions, and users can choose which blocks appear at different screen sizes for cleaner responsive layouts.
WordPress 7.0 also includes performance improvements around image loading, block styles, and scripts, plus accessibility refinements and (finally) a refreshed admin design.
On the AI side, the new Connectors screen provides a central place to manage integrations with external services (such as Claude), with optional AI tools for things like titles, excerpts, image generation, editing, and alt text.
See What's In The WordPress 7.0 Release
WooCommerce has introduced a new Subscriptions Health Check tool designed to give merchants better visibility into the state of their subscription renewals and billing health.
Available under WooCommerce → Status → Subscriptions, the tool scans subscriptions for issues and surfaces potential problems before they turn into failed renewals or lost recurring revenue.
It also shows when the last scan was run, helping store owners monitor subscription reliability.
Rather than discovering problems only after customers complain or payments fail, merchants now get clearer diagnostics and visibility into renewal states directly inside WooCommerce.
Discover the New WooCommerce Subscriptions Health Check
Google has confirmed a long-running bug in Google Search Console that has been inflating impression counts since May 2025.
As the fix rolls out, many sites will likely see a noticeable drop in reported impressions but clicks and traffic were not affected.
The issue was caused by a logging error, meaning the data itself was inaccurate rather than search visibility actually changing.
For SEO and eCommerce teams, this is a useful reminder not to rely too heavily on impressions alone when measuring performance.
Metrics like clicks, conversions, and revenue remain far more meaningful indicators of actual business impact.
Read about the Google Search Console Bug
IsItAgentReady.com is a new tool from Cloudflare that scans your website to see how prepared it is for the growing world of AI agents - tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and AI search assistants.
Instead of focusing on traditional SEO, it checks whether your site is structured in a way that AI systems can easily discover, understand, and interact with, covering things like robots.txt, sitemaps, markdown support, MCP, OAuth, and emerging “agent-ready” standards.
What makes it interesting for eCommerce and web teams is that it turns a fairly abstract concept - “AI readiness” - into something practical and measurable.
You enter your URL, get a score, and receive actionable recommendations you can even paste into tools like Claude or Cursor to help implement fixes.
It’s an early sign of how the web is evolving beyond traditional search, with sites increasingly needing to optimise not just for humans and Google, but for AI systems that browse on behalf of users.
Check out IsItAgentReady
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Simon and Colm from CommerceGurus
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