r/woocommerce rules, stats, and what to post

This community is for people who use WooCommerce, the open source ecommerce plugin for WordPress that lets you sell products from your own site. The people posting here run stores, build sites, and work on the plugins and integrations around WooCommerce. The rules say posts and comments should stay related to WooCommerce, its features, integrations, and best practices, so general ecommerce chatter without a WooCommerce angle does not belong. It is also a place where comparing WooCommerce to other platforms is welcome, as long as WooCommerce stays the focus. The tone the rules ask for is friendly, respectful, and helpful to the open source ecosystem that keeps WooCommerce alive.

The big one is “Absolutely no promotional material in posts”, which says promotional posts are never allowed and covers ads, self promotion, and anything meant to market or sell a product, service, or website. The same rule allows recommendations and links in comments when they directly help answer the original post. Then there is “Relevant recommendations (comments only)”, which is unusual and important, because it says you can share helpful plugins, services, or solutions, including your own, if they genuinely answer a specific question in the comments. “No off-topic posts” keeps everything WooCommerce focused, though comparisons to other platforms are fine when WooCommerce stays the center. “No solicitation or hiring requests” bans asking for paid services, offering payment, job posts, and asking people to DM you. “Lead Gen / Data Harvesting or Engagement Farming” removes surveys, research, and data collection unless they are directly tied to Woo with clear Woo specific data or use cases. Finally, “Be friendly” asks for respectful, accurate, and useful contributions.

A good post here is a real WooCommerce question, a problem you solved, or a comparison that keeps WooCommerce at the center. If you built something for WooCommerce, the safe path is to post about the problem you were trying to solve and let people ask in the comments. Then, when someone asks for a solution that fits, you can mention your own work in a reply, because the rules explicitly allow that when it is genuinely relevant. Write posts that teach or ask, and save any recommending for comment replies.

Do not post ads, self promotion, or anything meant to market your product, because “Absolutely no promotional material in posts” removes it. Do not post about other platforms or general ecommerce topics, because “No off-topic posts” covers that. Never post affiliate, referral, or monetized links anywhere. Do not ask for paid help, offer payment, post jobs, or ask people to DM you, because “No solicitation or hiring requests” bans all of it. Do not run surveys, research requests, lead gen, or engagement farming, because “Lead Gen / Data Harvesting or Engagement Farming” removes them unless they are tied to Woo with clear Woo specific data. And keep your tone kind, because “Be friendly” sets the bar for how people treat each other.

The thing that stands out to me is rule five, because most communities flat out ban recommending your own product, and this one carves out a narrow, honest path for it in comments. That tells me the moderators here have thought hard about the difference between helping someone and selling to them. If you only remember one thing, make it this, keep your posts clean of any promotion and earn your mentions one helpful comment reply at a time.