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  • WooCommerce 2.6.13 fix release notes

    The WooCommerce 2.6.13 fix release is now available. You can download it from WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~8 commits made it into this release fixing a few issues. The full changelog for 2.6.13 is below. * Fix – Demo store banner styling in 2017. * Fix – Removed default…

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  • WC 2.7 extension compatibility examples

    Our team have been looking at updating some of our extensions for 2.7 compatibility and we thought it would be good to share our notes in doing so. The first bunch we reviewed were EU VAT, Shipment Tracking, and Product Add-ons. Our notes are below.

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  • Deprecation in WooCommerce Core

    Deprecation is a method of discouraging usage of a feature, or practice, in favour of something else without breaking backwards compatibility or totally prohibiting it’s usage. To quote the Wikipedia article on Deprecation: While a deprecated software feature remains in the software, its use may raise warning messages recommending alternative practices; deprecated status may also indicate the…

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  • WooCommerce 2.6.12 fix release notes

    The WooCommerce 2.6.12 fix release is now available. You can download it from WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~12 commits made it into this release fixing a few issues. The full changelog for 2.6.12 is below. * Fix – Make images shown up on pageload when using ajax variations. *…

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  • WooCommerce 2.6.10 fix release notes

    The WooCommerce 2.6.10 fix release is now available. You can download it from WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~30 commits made it into this release fixing several issues. The main change to be aware of surrounds the variation add to cart form script. A few versions back we spotted an incompatibility…

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  • WooCommerce 2.7 beta 1 is here

    WooCommerce 2.7 codename “Bionic Butterfly” has been tagged in GitHub and is ready for testing! This is a major release with large structural changes to help us work towards a more performant platform. There have been over 1900 commits from 16 contributors since July! You can download WC 2.7 Beta 1 here. ( @ \v/…

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  • 2.7: A new CLI for WooCommerce

    WooCommerce brings many improvements to the WP-CLI powered command-line interface we introduced back in WooCommerce 2.5. WP-CLI is a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations Our WC-CLI layer adds tools for managing products, coupons, payment gateways, shipping zones, and much more. In WooCommerce 2.5 and 2.6, the CLI was powered by it’s own…

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  • WooCommerce 2.6.9 Security/Fix Release Notes

    The WooCommerce 2.6.9 security/fix release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~44 commits made it into this release fixing several minor issues and taking care of some security hardening. The main change was that we updated WooCommerce for compatibility with WordPress 4.7 and the…

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  • WooCommerce 2.6.8 Fix Release Notes

    We’ve made a small update today (WooCommerce 2.6.8) to fix a few issues. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. This release had ~14 commits. Fixed an issue where REQUEST_URI was missing a trailing slash during comparison in our page caching functions. Fixed an issue where empty prices were sent…

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  • The new CRUD classes in WooCommerce 2.7

    High order volume is one of the best problems a store can have, but it can really slow down your site’s performance. That’s why our team’s main focus this year (and going into 2017) is performance and scalability. We’ve put in motion a plan spanning several releases to help us tackle scalability head on, and you can read…

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  • WooCommerce 2.6.7 Fix Release Notes

    We’ve made a small update today (WooCommerce 2.6.7) to fix a few issues. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. This release had ~11 commits. Fixed an issue where users without permissions to view reports, but could manage other parts of WooCommerce such as orders, could see the reports widget on…

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  • WooCommerce 2.6.6 Fix Release Notes

    We’ve made a small update and released WooCommerce 2.6.6 today to fix a potential conflict with extensions. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. Only ~2 made it into this release to fix: A conflict with Local Pickup Plus due to 2.7.x code making it into the 2.6.x…

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