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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Caching and dynamic pricing – upcoming changes to the get_variation_prices method

    get_variation_prices was a method added in 2.4 to make it easy to retrieve an array of variation prices for a variable product. With this array, you can output pricing information in many different ways;…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.6 Fix Release Available

    The WooCommerce 2.4.6 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 41 commits made it into this release. Here are the highlights: Fixed grouped product is_purchasable…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.5 Fix Release Available

    The WooCommerce 2.4.5 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 76 commits made it into this release. Here are the highlights: Fixed a case where global…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.4 Fix Release Available

    The WooCommerce 2.4.4 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 24 commits made it into this release. We’ve continued going through the forums and issue reports…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.3 Fix Release Available

    The WooCommerce 2.4.3 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 16 commits made it into this release. We’ve continued going through the forums and issue reports…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.2 Fix Release Available

    The WooCommerce 2.4.2 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 22 commits made it into this release. We’ve spent the last 24 hours going through the…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.1 Fix Release Available

    The WooCommerce 2.4.1 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 8 commits made it into this release. This release fixes some issues reported by users…

  • Hooray! The Helpful Hedgehog is here

    It’s with great excitement that we announce WooCommerce 2.4 is live! Since 2.3 back in February there have been 1800 commits from 24 contributors, and 77 issues have been closed. A huge round of applause for…