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WooCommerce 2.6.5 Fix Release Notes
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The WooCommerce 2.6.5 fix release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~82 commits made it into this release fixing several minor issues. The main changes are as follows. The ship to specific countries setting actually did nothing since 2.6.0. This has now been hooked up and…
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New product gallery merged in to core for 2.7
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Followers of this blog will know that we’ve been talking about the possibility of revamping our product gallery display on single product pages. This post is simply to document that this has now been confirmed and indeed merged in to core. The feature will be included in WooCommerce 2.7. Here’s a (very) quick video demonstrating the new gallery: The…
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The New WooCommerce Product Image Gallery
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A couple of weeks ago we posted about an experiment we were working on to improve the product galleries in WooCommerce, particularly the mobile experience. We laid out options to have a lightbox, a magnification/zoom, or both and included a poll to get your feedback. After 442 votes, the results of that poll look like this; Lightbox…
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A new product gallery coming to 2.7. Maybe.
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The product image galleries in WooCommerce basically haven’t changed since version 1. The layout is fine, but the lightbox functionality is looking more than a little tired. Most importantly the experience on smaller handheld devices is terrible. We’d like to replace the lightbox functionality entirely with a carousel/zoom combination which will provide a lightweight, intuitive experience…
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WooCommerce 2.6.4 Fix/Security Release Notes
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The WooCommerce 2.6.4 fix/security release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~20 commits made it into this release fixing several minor issues. The main changes are as follows. The REST API image upload feature has been locked down to only allow images, vs all supported WordPress…
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WooCommerce 2.6.3 Fix/Security Release Notes
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The WooCommerce 2.6.3 fix/security release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~104 commits made it into this release fixing several minor issues and a potential security issue. The main fixes/updates are as follows. Securify reported an issue with the way captions were shown within PrettyPhoto.…
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WooCommerce 2.6.2 Fix Release Notes
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The WooCommerce 2.6.2 fix release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~140 commits made it into this release fixing several minor issues and making some smaller tweaks. The main fixes/updates are as follows. We’ve made the password reset process redirect to the form and set…
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WooCommerce Connect moves into Alpha 2
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For the last couple months, since the first Alpha release, we’ve been diligently working on WooCommerce Connect. We’re excited to announce that we have more features you can exercise in the latest Alpha release. WooCommerce Connect now supports: Real-time rate requests for Canada Post as well as USPS Merchant defined custom packaging as well as…
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WooCommerce 2.6.1 fix release notes
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The WooCommerce 2.6.1 fix release is now available. You can download it onWordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~43 commits made it into this release fixing several minor issues and making some small tweaks to things such as the updater. The main fixes/updates are as follows. Our background updater relies on a…
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Say hello to WooCommerce 2.6 “Zipping Zebra”
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Today we’re excited to announce WooCommerce 2.6 “Zipping Zebra” has been released into the wild. 2.6 has been in beta since the end of April, development for ~5 months, and has had over 1700 commits from 25 contributors. This time round there has been a major focus on APIs, shipping, and account pages which ticks some items off…
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WooCommerce 2.6 Release Candidate
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The release candidate for WooCommerce 2.6 “Zipping Zebra” 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 to ship WooCommerce 2.6.0 on Tuesday, June 14th, but we need your help to get there. Since beta 4, we’ve…
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WooCommerce 2.6 Beta 4
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WooCommerce 2.6 Beta 4 has been tagged and is now available from Github. You can download beta 4 here Since beta 3, we’ve made a handful of fixes and tweaks you can view here. Notable changes include: Using a hook to include account page navigation Removed unused POST code in shipping template. A fix for…
