Build and Optimize WooCommerce Stores with AI

Provides an 8-phase workflow for building a WooCommerce store: Store Setup (install WooCommerce, run the setup wizard, configure tax and currency, delegating to app-builder), Product Configuration (categories, attributes, variable products, plus a WordPress 7.0 wp_ai_client_prompt() hook that auto-generates a product description on woocommerce_new_product when one is missing), Payment Integration (delegating to stripe-integration/paypal-integration, plus a WP 7.0 AI fraud-check example that prompts the model with order total, address, and email and classifies it "suspicious" or "clean"), Shipping Configuration (zones, flat-rate, free shipping, plus an AI shipping-method recommendation based on cart weight and destination), Store Customization (product, cart, and checkout templates, plus an AJAX-driven AI product-Q&A chat widget with nonce verification), Extensions (subscriptions, bookings, memberships, plus WP 7.0's Abilities API registering typed woocommerce/update-inventory and woocommerce/process-order abilities gated by current_user_can('manage_woocommerce')), Optimization (image, database, and CDN work, noting WP 7.0's client-side media processing and Font Library), and Testing (checkout, payment, email, and mobile via playwright-skill, plus an AI checkout-fraud validator on woocommerce_after_checkout_validation for guest orders). Each phase names the sibling skills to invoke and gives a literal @skill-name copy-paste prompt.

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Use it when setting up a WooCommerce store, integrating payments or shipping, building custom or subscription products, or adopting WordPress 7.0's AI, DataViews, or collaboration features on an existing WooCommerce site. It is explicitly a workflow bundle, not a self-contained implementation - each phase's actual work is delegated to a named sibling skill (app-builder, payment-integration, frontend-developer, web-performance-optimization, test-automator, and others), and every AI code sample checks function_exists('wp_ai_client_prompt') first and degrades gracefully, skipping rather than blocking checkout, when no AI connector plugin is installed - the AI features require installing an OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini connector from WordPress.org and configuring it under Settings > Connectors first.

Inputs are store configuration (tax rules, currency, shipping zones) and product or order data; outputs are working PHP hooks and an Abilities API registration pattern - wp_register_ability_category() plus wp_register_ability() with an input_schema/output_schema JSON Schema pair, an execute_callback, and a permission_callback gating the action to users who can manage_woocommerce. A closing eight-item quality-gate checklist covers product display, checkout, payments, shipping calculation, email delivery, mobile responsiveness, and, for WordPress 7.0 specifically, AI feature and DataViews testing.

Names concrete WordPress 7.0 APIs: wp_ai_client_prompt() for AI text generation, with a using_temperature() call to tune determinism - low for fraud or classification prompts, higher for varied chat answers - and the Abilities API (wp_register_ability_category, wp_register_ability) for exposing store actions to AI agents. It hands off to nine sibling skills across its eight phases: app-builder, wordpress-penetration-testing (used repeatedly for core WooCommerce configuration despite its name), stripe-integration, paypal-integration, frontend-developer/frontend-design, web-performance-optimization, database-optimizer, playwright-skill, and test-automator; and links to three related workflow bundles: wordpress, wordpress-theme-development, and wordpress-plugin-development.

Developers building or upgrading a WooCommerce store, including adopting WordPress 7.0's AI product descriptions, fraud checks, shipping recommendations, and Abilities API, who want a phased checklist with delegated sibling skills rather than a single monolithic implementation guide.