Is Gutenberg supposed to work with WooCommerce on Product pages?

I got an answer from someone in a Facebook group who pointed me to the discussion group for WooCommerce developers on Github. In it, Mike Jolley said back in May that:

Since WooCommerce is not optimised for the Gutenberg editor we’ve decided to keep the old editor for now so sites do not break when WordPress 5.0 is released. Products are not content focussed so using Gutenberg with our meta box placed awkwardly at the bottom is not ideal.

And back in February, Cladiu Lodromanean said:

It’s just temporary until we develop nice Gutenberg-compatible screens for Products/Orders/etc. When Gutenberg is merged into WP core and released we will be ready with the Products block in WooCommerce 3.4 but editing products and orders in Gutenberg will come in a future WooCommerce release.

So now I know and I will be following the discussion on Github more closely.

That said, what this illustrates for me is that WooCommerce has a communication problem. They should be giving a roadmap to users and not just to developers who know to look in Github.

Can we get that?

Hi David,

I stumpled upon your thread after trying the same thing as you… creating a product using Gutenberg. I wanted to know how my (custom) theme handles it. Have installed the “WooCommerce Gutenberg Products Block” plugin (but is being used for something else) and even their own StoreFront theme but nothing changes; still classic editor. That’s not good, I want to know how my theme handles products, before the introduction of WP 5.0!

Guido

Hi Guido,
I am going to rely on the theme developer to make sure the themes I am using are ready for Gutenberg when it is ready to work with adding/editing products.

Until that happens I will disable Gutenberg with the Ramp plugin or the Classic Editor plugin (have to find out which is better to use) on my WooCommerce sites.

David

Hi All,
Am working off of a staging site at the moment with Gutenberg and do see it in Posts and Pages but not in Woocommerce Products. Stumbled across this support question which has helped to answer a little bit as to why it doesn’t work with Woocommerce Products. Will keep an eye on further postings here to see any updates/news as to whether Gutenberg and Woocommerce Products will integret with each other.
Thank You,
Ruth

Editing and adding products will not work with the new block editor in WooCommerce at the moment. If you are seeing the block editor you’ll need to update to at least 3.5.1 which will load the old editor.

Next year we’ll be working on using the block editor for products.