WooCommerce 2.7 beta 2

Today we tagged WooCommerce 2.7 “Bionic Butterfly” beta 2. It contains a whole host of bug fixes and is ready for testing! if you’d like to find out whats new in 2.7, you can read more about 2.7 in our first beta post here.

Download WC 2.7 Beta 2

Changes since beta 1

We’ve been pretty busy since beta 1, mainly due to the feedback from testers. Kudos to everyone who has reported an issue or contributed so far!

Aside from many many fixes and smaller improvements, here are some of the larger changes you may need to be aware of:

We’ve added new improved logging for extensions.
To make the new gallery more theme friendly, we’ve added theme support declarations so it’s only used if the theme wants it. You’ll need to declare support for this feature to be enabled in custom themes.
Select2 has been upgraded to v4. See the notes here for upgrade instructions.
Added a language independent permalink setting function.
Added a way to detect changes after CRUD object saving and added new actions.
The product duplicate code now uses CRUD.
Payment details are preserved when the checkout updates.
Product attribute lists link to archives.
Reduced the amount of data needed for the product schema markup.
Improved RTL support.
Deferred email sending for faster checkouts.

What’s left to do?

Currently there are only 2 open issues we’ve yet to address and those are:

We’re hoping to have this done and beta 3 tagged by the 16th.

Developer notes/extensions

We’ve been taking notes as we’ve updated extensions. For know issues and gotchas, please see this article on the wiki.

As for examples on how to update extensions to support 2.7, we’ve been publishing a series of posts on how we’ve done it ourselves.

Release schedule

We’re aiming to have a release candidate ready on the 27th Febuary. The final release will be shortly after that.

If you have not yet tested extensions or your themes, now is the time 🙂 Thanks for your support!

Keep yourself in the loop!

24 responses to “WooCommerce 2.7 beta 2”

diego.zanella

February 9, 2017

I like the new CRUD system. I’m just not entirely sure how custom properties should be handled. For example, given a product instance, how does one set a custom property and save it to the database, without calling update_post_meta()?

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1. Mike Jolley
  
  February 10, 2017
  
  The data class has you covered https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/blob/ae0e4e7ac395d276ea08e3464e7d922d7cddd532/includes/abstracts/abstract-wc-data.php#L289
  
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  1. diego.zanella
    
    February 10, 2017
    
    I’m sorry, and I feel a bit “thick”, but I’m not sure I follow. The add_meta() in that class seems to add (of course) some meta to an array, and that’s it. The operation I would be looking for would be SET meta (i.e. add or replace) and persist it to the database. Something like the following:
    
    // Add or update custom property/meta
    $product->set_prop(‘my_custom_prop1’, 123);
    // Add or update custom property/meta
    $product->set_prop(‘my_custom_prop2’, ‘ABC’);
    // Persist the meta to the database
    $product->save();
    
    Is there something like that in the new CRUD classes?
    
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    1. Mike Jolley
      
      February 10, 2017
      
      There are update and add meta data methods. The actual setting/updating is handled internally when the entire object is saved. https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/blob/ae0e4e7ac395d276ea08e3464e7d922d7cddd532/includes/abstracts/abstract-wc-data.php#L281-L334
      
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      1. diego.zanella
        
        February 10, 2017
        
        Thanks the clarification. Now, the million dollars question. If I do the following:
        
        function some_cool_function() {
        $product = wc_get_product(123);
        $product->update_meta_data(‘my_custom_meta’, ‘abc’);
        }
        
        When is the object actually saved? Is there a method to call?
      2. Mike Jolley
        
        February 10, 2017
        
        It’s not saved until something (or you) call $product->save(). This triggers the write to the database.
Beka Rice

February 9, 2017

> The final release will be shortly after that.
Does that mean like days? A week? Ideally we wanted to release extension compatibility during RC but we’ll be on our company retreat that week, just wanted to be sure our timing is good 🙂

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1. Mike Jolley
  
  February 10, 2017
  
  7 days unless the world explodes.
  
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David Anderson

February 10, 2017

Hi,

Is it intended/believed that in WC 2.7, all database access will go through the CRUD layer (i.e. no direct calls to wpdb outside of CRUD classes)? I’m quite interested in the possibilities that opens up, if it is so.

David

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1. Mike Jolley
  
  February 10, 2017
  
  Whilst I’m sure there may be some ‘stragglers’, and we cannot account for all extensions, yes that is the plan. Data stores, and only data stores, interact with the database.
  
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2. diego.zanella
  
  February 10, 2017
  
  The CRUD classes are a great idea, but there will still be cases in which SQL will be a better approach. I say that for personal experience. In over 20 years, I worked with countless frameworks that have extensive CRUD classes (far more flexible than WP_Query), yet sometimes a handcrafted SQL allows to achieve a result more quickly, without having to resort to convoluted nested loops, leading to a poor RBAR approach (see https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/t-sql-programming/rbar-row-by-agonizing-row/). 🙂
  
  The idea of CRUD classes, as well as Model classes, is to abstract the interaction with the underlying database, but there will always be some space for good, old queries. 🙂
  
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Currency Switcher 4.x is coming soon, supporting WooCommerce 2.7

February 10, 2017

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quickerthemes

February 11, 2017

What are the theme support declarations for the new Gallery? It seems that I will need to add them fro the zooming feature to start working like it did by default in beta 1.

Thanks.

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1. quickerthemes
  
  February 11, 2017
  
  I figured it out. For those who are having a hard time finding anything useful like I was, these are the 3 declarations.
  
  add_theme_support( ‘wc-product-gallery-zoom’ );
  add_theme_support( ‘wc-product-gallery-lightbox’ );
  add_theme_support( ‘wc-product-gallery-slider’ );
  
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Justin

February 17, 2017

Any update on the ETA for release of 2.7?

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Mike Lynch

February 21, 2017

Using 2.7, will you be able to add a product with attributes to an order using the API?

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1. Mike Jolley
  
  February 21, 2017
  
  Meta data to represent attributes.
  
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  1. Mike Lynch
    
    February 21, 2017
    
    Ok, awesome. This update can’t come soon enough!
    
    Reply
  2. Mike Lynch
    
    March 1, 2017
    
    I tried adding a line item with meta fields using the new 2.7 RC, but it didn’t work for me. What am I missing?
    
    https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-line-item-with-meta-to-order-using-api/
    
    Reply
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