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WooCommerce 2.6 Beta 3
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WooCommerce 2.6 Beta 3 has been tagged and is now available from Github. Since beta 1 there have been a number of fixes, tweaks and commits (159) so be sure to give it a whirl. You can download beta 3 here Changes since beta 2 We have worked on several bug fixes and hook renames since…
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WooCommerce 2.6 Beta 2
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WooCommerce 2.6 Beta 2 has been tagged and is now available from Github. Since beta 1 there have been a number of fixes, tweaks and commits (183) so be sure to give it a whirl. You can download beta 2 here Changes since beta 1 Allowed country exclusion, rather than just inclusion, in ‘sell to’…
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Introducing WooCommerce Connect – Alpha Edition
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For the past few months, we’ve been quietly working on something we think will be a big part of the future of WooCommerce: WooCommerce Connect. Connect is a new architecture for integrating services with WooCommerce. We’re taking advantage of a SaaS-style Automattic-hosted server to do the heavy lifting and have created a new Calypso-style interface. On the…
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WooCommerce 2.6 Beta 1 is here
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WC 2.6 codename “Zipping Zebra” has been tagged and is ready for testing. This is our 2nd major release of 2016 and has around 900 commits in total. You can download beta 1 here. Release Highlights 2.6.0 has a host of improvements and new features to dramatically improve shipping. Shipping Zones are now part of core. This means you’ll now be…
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New REST API based on the WP REST API in 2.6
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During the development of WooCommerce 2.1 (Back in Feb 2014) we knew that one day WordPress would have it’s own REST API, but the demand was so great for such a thing in WooCommerce we had to roll our own. We’ve learned a lot from this process and our API is now widely used, but given recent developments surrounding the…
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Tabbed “My Account” pages in 2.6
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The “My Account” pages in WooCommerce are highly important for customers as it’s where you can access orders, available downloads, and address/account information. Plugins can also add data to the account page if they need to, such as Subscriptions and Bookings. Because of this, a lot of things can be happening on this one page. This can lead…
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Cart AJAX
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Cart AJAX updates for WooCommerce 2.6 allow better user experience
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Payment Token API in 2.6
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WooCommerce 2.6 will ship with a payment tokenization API. This makes it easier to store, manipulate, and retrieve payment info in a standardized way. Payment methods saved using the API can be managed from the user’s account settings and are displayed as options during checkout. The Simplify gateway also now has support for tokens meaning…
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Allowing customer access to WP Admin, and enabling the admin bar
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Add code to your child theme’s functions.php file or via a plugin that allows custom functions to be added, such as the Code snippets plugin. Avoid adding custom code directly to your parent theme’s functions.php file as this will be wiped entirely when you update the theme. By default, WooCommerce blocks non-admin users from entering…
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WooCommerce 2.5.5 Fix Release
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The WooCommerce 2.5.5 fix release is now available. A total of ~6 commits made it into this release fixing a notice in WP Admin during product creation which affected some users. As an aside, we’re currently working hard no a new API/CRUD classes in WooCommerce core to support Orders, Coupons, and products. Once complete this…
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WooCommerce 2.5.4 Fix Release
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The WooCommerce 2.5.4 fix release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. A total of ~29 commits made it into this release fixing several minor issues and making some small tweaks.The biggest fix in 2.5.4 was utf8mb4 support for our database table schema (thanks JJJ). This was causing…
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WooCommerce 2.5.3 Fix Release
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The WooCommerce 2.5.3 fix release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. The most notable change is to customer details on the thanks page. The thanks page has an obscure URL making it impossible to guess/find and see other user’s orders, however, if someone did discover the URL they’d see…
