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WooCommerce 2.5 Beta 1
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WC 2.5 codename “Dashing Dolphin” has been tagged for testing. This release has seen a short development cycle of ~3 months and comprises of ~1000 commits from 21 contributors. You can download beta 1 here. Release Highlights 2.5 mostly contains enhancements to existing functionality, but we have added some new features which developers will appreciate such as WP CLI support! The…
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WooCommerce 2.4.9 security and fix release
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The WooCommerce 2.4.9 release is now available on WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of ~18 commits made it into this release fixing a few small issues, the main one being the error handling in our Geo IP library. See the changelog for the full details. An XSS issue within the price.php template file…
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WooCommerce 2.4.8 fix release
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The WooCommerce 2.4.8 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 30 commits made it into this release fixing several small issues and making a few tweaks to the API. See the changelog for the full details. If you spot any further issues, please report them to us in…
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New session handler in 2.5
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Being stateless, WordPress doesn’t have an in-built way of handling session data. You can use cookies. You can implement PHP Sessions, but both have limitations and some hosts aren’t equipped to deal with them by default. Early on we decided to adopt a solution based on https://github.com/ericmann/wp-session-manager whereby you have a cookie to identify each user,…
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Sneak Peek: WP CLI Support in WooCommerce 2.5
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WP CLI support is one of the features that’s included in WooCommerce 2.5 milestone. In case you haven’t heard WP-CLI: WP-CLI is a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations. You can update plugins, set up multisite installs and much more, without using a web browser. All WooCommerce related commands are grouped into wp…
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WooCommerce 2.4.7 fix release available
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The WooCommerce 2.4.7 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 164 commits made it into this release. Here are the highlights: For geolocation with static cache support, ensure hash is appended during form submission. Remove use of ‘input’ event in checkout scripts to prevent IE11 triggering updates…
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Moving languages packs to WordPress.org
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Recently an announcement was made that plugins could soon make use of Language Packs, the same way in which core and themes do. This makes it easier for users to obtain translations (they are downloaded along with the plugin), lets everyone translate in the same place (translate.wordpress.org) and lets all plugins share a translation memory.…
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Caching and dynamic pricing – upcoming changes to the get_variation_prices method
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get_variation_prices was a method added in 2.4 to make it easy to retrieve an array of variation prices for a variable product. With this array, you can output pricing information in many different ways; core itself uses for example $100 – $200 format for variable products (min price to max price). These prices are used for…
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WooCommerce 2.4.6 Fix Release Available
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The WooCommerce 2.4.6 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 41 commits made it into this release. Here are the highlights: Fixed grouped product is_purchasable check during add to cart. Improved bulk variation editing. Final fixes for ajax variation < 2.4 attribute name handling. During updates,…
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WooCommerce 2.4.5 Fix Release Available
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The WooCommerce 2.4.5 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 76 commits made it into this release. Here are the highlights: Fixed a case where global text based attributes were not saving correctly. Fixed a case where display name was not checked/set correctly when editing your account. Fixed ‘no…
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WooCommerce 2.4.4 Fix Release Available
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The WooCommerce 2.4.4 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 24 commits made it into this release. We’ve continued going through the forums and issue reports on Github to find any edge-case issues missed during beta. Thanks for the reports! We have included fixes for the following…
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WooCommerce 2.4.3 Fix Release Available
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The WooCommerce 2.4.3 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 16 commits made it into this release. We’ve continued going through the forums and issue reports on Github to find any edge-case issues missed during beta. Thanks for the reports! We have included fixes for the following…
