WooCommerce 2.6 Beta 1 is here

WC 2.6 codename “Zipping Zebra” has been tagged and is ready for testing. This is our 2nd major release of 2016 and has around 900 commits in total. You can download beta 1 here.

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Release Highlights

2.6.0 has a host of improvements and new features to dramatically improve shipping. Shipping Zones are now part of core. This means you’ll now be able to have instance based shipping methods, multiple flat rates, and much much more without the use of extensions. For developers, the shipping API docs are inside our wiki.

The My Account shortcode/pages have been restructured to be tab based. This keeps things organised and allows devs to add more tabs if needed.

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How it looks in Storefront 2.0

You can read more about the tabbed my account page here.

The cart page operations now use AJAX (updating item quantities, removing cart items, applying coupons, and updating shipping options) which you can read about and see in action here.

We’ve worked on our layered nav system in 2.6 adding new functionality (now you can filter products by ratings) and improving performance for all layered nav queries.

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Filter by rating

Developers will have access to our new Payment Tokens API which standardized the way in which tokens are stored and displayed. This wiki article explains usage for devs.

We’ve also released a new version of the WooCommerce REST API, based on the WordPress REST API, which you can read about here.

Other features developers and users will be interested in:

  • We’ve moved custom term meta implementation to WP Term Meta which was introduced in 4.4.
  • Added new wc_get_orders() function to get order objects and ids instead of direct get_posts() calls.
  • We’ve added the ability for shipping methods to store meta data to the order in the same way line items can.
  • We’ve made wc_create_new_customer() pluggable.
  • We’ve added > 100 new currencies based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circulating_currencies, and Bitcoin.

Template changes in 2.6.0

The following template files had their versions bumped in 2.6.0:

  • single-product/review.php – Added hooks to support the following new templates:
    • single-product/review-rating.php
    • single-product/review-meta.php
  • order/order-details.php – Fix to only get purchase note if product exists.
  • myaccount/my-account.php – New action hooks to support tabbed navigation and the following new template files:
    • myaccount/downloads.php
    • myaccount/view-order.php
    • myaccount/payment-methods.php
    • myaccount/orders.php
    • myaccount/navigation.php
  • myaccount/my-downloads.php – Deprecated.
  • myaccount/my-orders.php – Deprecated.
  • myaccount/form-add-payment-method.php – Added tabbed naviation.
  • myaccount/form-edit-address.php – Added tabbed naviation.
  • myaccount/form-edit-account.php – Added tabbed naviation.

Release Schedule and beta testing

Beta 1 is out today (April 22nd). Subsequent betas will be released as needed and we’ll post on this blog if this happens.

If all goes to plan, Release Candidate 1 will be tagged during May 2016.

If you’d like to help test, you should download the release from Github. We posted a nice little write-up on beta testing here which should get you started. Please read that and jump right in!

If you’re like to help translate 2.6, you’ll find it on the development branch on translate.wordpress.org.

Thanks to all of our testers and contributors.


11 responses to “WooCommerce 2.6 Beta 1 is here”

  1. Looking forward to trying it out!

  2. […] WooCommerce releases v2.6 Beta 1, and it’s pretty awesome.  To give you a quick rundown, shipping zones are now included for free (that’s one less plugin that you need), the “My Account” page is now tabbed (UI for the win!), and the cart has been AJAXified (no more constant page reloads!)  Read the full release notes here. […]

  3. Looking through the code for shipping zones, it looks like, given a shipping zone, I can list the available methods. I’d like to do the reverse: given a shipping method, get the zones that that method is active in.

    Of course, I can just enumerate all the zones, and enumerate their methods, and build the result from that. But, I wonder if I’m going to be the only person who wants to do this, and if adding an API method for it wouldn’t be useful for devs?

  4. Mitchell Callahan Avatar
    Mitchell Callahan

    Lud it! Very nice. 🙂

  5. Can’t wait for the release!

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  7. Richard Bergeron Avatar
    Richard Bergeron

    With the new tabbed profile, when adding a new endpoint tab, will it be possible to include custom profile meta in the new tab that can be edited by the customer?

    1. The filters allow you to add new tabs; what you place inside them is completely up to you/your code.

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