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Help us make the WooCommerce Platform Better
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We’re part of a team focused on improving the WooCommerce platform, and we’re trying to make it better for all developers. To help us better understand your needs as a developer, we’re inviting you to a quick survey. We’d love to get your input: Your comments and insights will help us make WooCommerce better for…
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WooCommerce 5.6 Released
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WooCommerce 5.6 has been officially released! We’ve been hard at work and this release has 256 commits from 36 contributors in WooCommerce Core 139 commits from 22 contributors in WooCommerce Admin 79 commits from 18 contributors in WooCommerce Blocks This is another minor release and so you should expect everything included to be backwards compatible with the previous version. As…
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Storefront 3.8.0 Release Notes
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Today we have released Storefront 3.8.0. The new version can be downloaded from WordPress.org and GitHub. This release includes a fix for missing arrows on <summary> tags, fixes to the Search block when added to the widget area, fixes to full-width images in full-width pages, and a tidy up of the URLs used to import fonts, which no…
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WooCommerce Blocks 5.7.0 Release Notes
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A new version of WooCommerce Blocks has been released! Version 5.7.0 is now available for download from GitHub and WordPress.org. This release contains several fixes for the Checkout Block validation system, as well as a new country select box to make it easier to search for countries and states. There are also fixes and minor…
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New Developer Guide: Testing Extensions and Maintaining Quality Code
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As we shared in a previous post, results from the developer survey we conducted earlier this year revealed that many developers want more information about how to test the extensions they build for WooCommerce. We are excited to announce that there is now a dedicated developer guide on testing extensions and maintaining quality code. The…
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WooCommerce 5.6 RC 2
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WooCommerce 5.6 RC 2 is now available. We are on track for our planned August 17th release date. Changes This release contains couple of changes from beta: WooCommerce Admin 2.5.0. Testing If you’d like to dive in and help test this new release, our handy WooCommerce Beta Tester plugin allows you to switch between beta versions and…
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Brace yourselves: new product filtering by attributes is coming
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The filtering of variable products in WooCommerce has been broken for some time. The problem appears when there are variable products where some variations have stock and others don’t, and the “hide out of stock products from the catalog” option is set. What happens is that when an attribute is selected for filtering, all variable…
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WooCommerce 5.6 RC 1
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We’re excited to announce that the first release candidate is now available for WooCommerce 5.6. We are on track for our planned August 17th release date. Changes This release contains couple of changes from beta: Fix – woocommerce_email_settings filter being triggered twice. #30388 WooCommerce Admin 2.5 RC 1. Testing If you’d like to dive in and…
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Improving API Queries for Low Stock Products
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tl;dr Recent improvements to the REST API fix slow queries for products with low stock. There is a new REST endpoint that affected developers should adopt. The Details There was a recent issue in WooCommerce Admin where stores who had upgraded to WooCommerce 5.5 started to experience performance issues and, in some cases, stopped working…
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WooCommerce Community News: July 2021
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Howdy, Woo Developer Community! 👋 Here are some updates of recent happenings that you may have missed over the past month. Some items are detailed in previous posts on this blog, and other items are pulled from sources like GitHub. We’ve packaged everything into a digest to help keep everyone in the loop. Developer Resources…
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WooCommerce Blocks 5.6.0 Release Notes
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A new version of WooCommerce Blocks has been released! Version 5.6.0 is now available for download from GitHub and WordPress.org. This release introduces several enhancements and bug fixes in many of our blocks including the Cart and Checkout blocks, which are only accessible using the WC Blocks feature plugin, and some other blocks which are…
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New Download Handling May Cause Errors
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tl;dr Recent updates that improve security around the handling of downloadable products may cause unexpected errors in some environments. The details WooCommerce currently supports three different download methods for downloadable products: Force Downloads X-Accel-Redirect/X-Sendfile Redirect Only (Insecure) Each of these methods can fail for a number of different reasons. Up until recently, WooCommerce attempted to…
