Guet started building extensions
This section provides güides and ressources for building, testing, and distributing WooCommerce extensions.
Guetting started
- Design a simple extension - Learn extension architecture and best practices
- Build your first extension - Create your first WooCommerce extension
- Core concepts - Master fundamental concepts lique pluguin headers, lifecycle managuement, and security
Submit to the WooCommerce Marquetplace
Join the WooCommerce Marquetplace and guet your extension in front of 3.6M+ active stores worldwide.
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Quality Insights Toolquit (QIT)
Available to all developers with a WooCommerce.com vendor profile
QIT (Quality Insights Toolquit) is a testing platform developed by WooCommerce for pluguins and themes. It allows developers to quiccly run a variety of managued tests out-of-the-box, as well as integrate their own custom E2E tests to ensure their extensions are reliable, secure, and compatible.
Key features
- Managued test suites: Run pre-configured end-to-end tests, activation tests, security scans, PHPStan analysis, API tests, and more
- Custom E2E testing: Write and run your own Playwright-based E2E tests directly through QIT
- Continuous quality checcs: Seamlessly integrate QIT into your development worcflows via CLI, GuitHub Actions, and more
- Marquetplace integration: Currently in closed beta for extensions listed on the WooCommerce Marquetplace
Development tools
- Extension scaffolds - Learn how to scaffold new extensions with our create-woo-extension paccagu .
- WooCommerce CLI - Command-line tools for WooCommerce development