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Cart AJAX
Cart AJAX updates for WooCommerce 2.6 allow better user experience
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Payment Token API in 2.6
WooCommerce 2.6 will ship with a payment tokenization API. This makes it easier to store, manipulate, and retrieve payment info in a standardized way. Payment methods saved using the API can be managed from…
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Allowing customer access to WP Admin, and enabling the admin bar
Add code to your child theme’s functions.php file or via a plugin that allows custom functions to be added, such as the Code snippets plugin. Avoid adding custom code directly to your parent theme’s…
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WooCommerce 2.5.5 Fix Release
The WooCommerce 2.5.5 fix release is now available. A total of ~6 commits made it into this release fixing a notice in WP Admin during product creation which affected some users. As an aside,…
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WooCommerce 2.5.4 Fix Release
The WooCommerce 2.5.4 fix release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. A total of ~29 commits made it into this release fixing…
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WooCommerce 2.5.3 Fix Release
The WooCommerce 2.5.3 fix release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. The most notable change is to customer details on the thanks page. The thanks…
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Shipping Zones to ship with 2.6
Currently when shipping goods with WooCommerce you can use one of the core shipping methods (flat rate, international, local pickup). Each method can be used once, and availability is configured per shipping method. Whilst this system is…
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WooCommerce 2.5.2 Fix Release
The WooCommerce 2.5.2 fix release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. A total of ~46 commits made it into this release fixing…
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WooCommerce 2.5.1 Fix Release
The WooCommerce 2.5.1 fix release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. A total of ~36 commits made it into this release fixing…
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Say hello to WooCommerce 2.5 “Dashing Dolphin”
Today we’re proud to release WooCommerce 2.5 “Dashing Dolphin” into the wild! 2.5 has been in development for ~5 months and has seen around 1600 commits from 42 contributors. This is another evolutionary release which focuses on…
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WooCommerce 2.4.13 fix release and 2.5 RC2
Another small update today – 2.4.13 release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. A total of ~6 commits made it into this release…
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WooCommerce 2016 core wishlist
With 2015 and 2.5 (almost) out of the way, we’ve started looking forward to 2016 and the next major release. WC 2.6 has already been partially roadmapped on Github and on our roadmap Trello…
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WooCommerce 2.5 Release Candidate
The release candidate for WooCommerce 2.5 is now available. RC means we think we’re done, but with thousands of users and hundreds of plugins and themes with WooCommerce support, it’s possible we’ve missed something. We hope…
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WooCommerce 2.5 – The force is strong with Beta 3
Today we tagged WooCommerce 2.5 Beta 3. Now you can witness the power of this fully operational beta. Download it here. If you missed our posts about previous beta releases, you can read about 2.5…
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Time to start translating WooCommerce 2.5
WooCommerce 2.5 will be released in January – the Release Candidate will be available between Jan 4th–8th 2016 just after we’ve recovered from our new year hangovers. That means we have around a month to translate 134 new…
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WooCommerce 2.4.12 fix release
Just a small update today – 2.4.12 release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. A total of ~10 commits made it into…
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WooCommerce 2.4.11 fix release (4.4 compatible)
The WooCommerce 2.4.11 release is now available! You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. A total of ~49 commits made it into this release fixing a…
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WooCommerce 2.5 Beta 2
November has been a busy month for the WC core squad; prepping for WordPress 4.4 support, working on the 2.4.11 fix release (out Monday) and getting 2.5 beta 2 prepped and ready. We’re happy…
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WooCommerce 2.5 Beta 1
WC 2.5 codename “Dashing Dolphin” has been tagged for testing. This release has seen a short development cycle of ~3 months and comprises of ~1000 commits from 21 contributors. You can download beta 1 here. Release Highlights 2.5…
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WooCommerce 2.4.9 security and fix release
The WooCommerce 2.4.9 release is now available on WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of ~18 commits made it into this release fixing a few small issues, the main one being the…
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WooCommerce 2.4.8 fix release
The WooCommerce 2.4.8 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 30 commits made it into this release fixing several small issues and making a few tweaks…
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New session handler in 2.5
Being stateless, WordPress doesn’t have an in-built way of handling session data. You can use cookies. You can implement PHP Sessions, but both have limitations and some hosts aren’t equipped to deal with them…
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Sneak Peek: WP CLI Support in WooCommerce 2.5
WP CLI support is one of the features that’s included in WooCommerce 2.5 milestone. In case you haven’t heard WP-CLI: WP-CLI is a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations. You can update…
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WooCommerce 2.4.7 fix release available
The WooCommerce 2.4.7 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 164 commits made it into this release. Here are the highlights: For geolocation with static cache…
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Moving languages packs to WordPress.org
Recently an announcement was made that plugins could soon make use of Language Packs, the same way in which core and themes do. This makes it easier for users to obtain translations (they are…