WooCommerce

Almost everything else on this page sits on top of WooCommerce. Most of what a Korean store needs can be added from outside it — that is what Korea for WooCommerce is. Some of it cannot. When the platform's own idea of a postcode, a province or a currency is wrong, the fix belongs upstream, where every store gets it, not just the few hundred that installed our plugin.

Eight pull requests were merged into woocommerce/woocommerce between August 2020 and April 2023. Korea had no entry in the locale table at all, so a store selling in won opened with two decimal places on a currency that has none. Japan's postcode check demanded a hyphen, rejecting the seven digits most Japanese customers type. Egypt's twenty-seven governorates were missing from the state list entirely. Spain's list gave Biscay its Basque name in a column of English ones. And the checkout checked email addresses but not phone fields, so anything typed into a phone field passed.

The two from 2023 are new options, not fixes, and both came from building on the platform and finding a hook missing. The `woocommerce_customer_taxable_address` filter now receives the customer object, so an extension deciding tax on something other than the address can see who it is deciding for. The output of `wc_help_tip` became filterable. Both shipped in WooCommerce 7.7.

None of it is a feature, and none of it carries our name in anyone's admin. It is the quiet half of building on someone else's platform: when a fix belongs upstream, it goes upstream, and the next merchant gets it without ever knowing it was broken.