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WooCommerce 3.3 Beta is here!
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Today we’re pleased to announce that WooCommerce 3.3 is available for beta testing! You can download it here. Release highlights 3.3 is a minor release and will be launching near the beginning of next year. There should be no breaking changes, new functionality should exist in a backwards-compatible manner, and updating from any release since…
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WC 3.3 Image size improvements
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Let’s face it, product images are a vital driving force behind sales. Combine that with thousands of WooCommerce-enabled themes out there and it can become difficult to have product images that look good out-of-the-box on all of them. WooCommerce 3.3 aims to improve that with some changes to image size settings and the rendering of images.…
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WC 3.3 will look great on all the themes!
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It used to be that you had to find specific WooCommerce-compatible themes for your store. In the upcoming release we have made big improvements in how WooCommerce handles themes that were previously unsupported, so now you can run WooCommerce with any theme! On themes that don’t formally declare WooCommerce support the templates will render inside…
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WC 3.3 New Webhooks CRUD
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We have been talking a lot about CRUD since 3.0.0, and the reason is because we want move certain features from the WordPress post database table to new database tables. This improves the performance and scalability of those features. Starting with 3.3.0, our webhooks will not use the posts and comments database tables anymore, and we…
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WC 3.3 Download Logging Feature
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WooCommerce 3.3 will include a new download logging/reporting feature to track who downloads what from your store (when selling digital products). The issue relating to this was initially logged here. This feature was contributed by @procifer during his trial (Automattic is hiring!). The pull requests for this can be found here and here. They add…
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WC 3.3 Product backorders and stock management improvements
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Managing the product stock status cycle in a store is something that many store owners spend a lot of time doing. Products are always coming in, getting purchased, running out of stock, and needing to be reordered. WooCommerce 3.3 has improvements aimed at making stock management less time-consuming and more natural and intuitive for store…
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December 12th: Dev chat #16
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The next chat will be on December 12th at 17:00 UTC in the #core channel of the WooCommerce Community Slack. If you don’t already have access to the group, you can request an invite at the bottom of the WooCommerce developers page. December 12th is also the day the WooCommerce 3.3 beta gets tagged! There…
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WooCommerce 3.2.5 fix release notes
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WooCommerce 3.2.5 is now available. This fixes a few compatibility issues with WordPress 4.9, and a conflict with themes using product shortcodes. ~25 commits made it into this release. The full changelog is below. * Fix – WordPress 4.9 – REST API – Updated schema, sanitization, and validation callbacks to support correct data types. *…
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November 28th: Dev chat #15
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The next chat will be on November 28th at 17:00 UTC in the #core channel of the WooCommerce Community Slack. If you don’t already have access to the group, you can request an invite at the bottom of the WooCommerce developers page. Our host this time will be Patrick Garman. Patrick is a partner at…
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WooCommerce 3.2.4 security/fix release notes
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WooCommerce 3.2.4 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites as soon as possible.
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WC 3.3 Order screen changes, including a new preview function, ready for feedback
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As part of the 3.3 release cycle we’ve been working on adding some features to the order screen, and improving general appearance. First let’s take a look at the current order screen and point out some issues. Problems: Additionally, viewing order items was something removed in a past version due to performance reasons, but was…
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November 14th: Dev chat #14
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The next chat will be on November 14th at 16:00 UTC in the #core channel of the WooCommerce Community Slack. If you don’t already have access to the group, you can request an invite at the bottom of the WooCommerce developers page. Here is the agenda: Contributing to WooCommerce follow-up WooCommerce 3.3 Theme support to…
