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WooCommerce 2.4.2 Fix Release Available
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The WooCommerce 2.4.2 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 22 commits made it into this release. We’ve spent the last 24 hours 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…
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WooCommerce 2.4.1 Fix Release Available
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The WooCommerce 2.4.1 release is now available via WordPress.org or automatic update in your administration panel. A total of 8 commits made it into this release. This release fixes some issues reported by users during the upgrade to 2.4.0 WooCommerce: Emails being fired for old orders about refunds. Variations that became free after upgrade (for…
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Hooray! The Helpful Hedgehog is here
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It’s with great excitement that we announce WooCommerce 2.4 is live! Since 2.3 back in February there have been 1800 commits from 24 contributors, and 77 issues have been closed. A huge round of applause for those involved! Feature highlights include: Custom Ajax Endpoints for performance A new product variation editor Simplified flat rate shipping Static cache compatible…
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API Settings and the API Authentication Endpoint in 2.4
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API Settings In WooCommerce 2.4 we now have a tab in the settings dedicated to our Rest API. Previously these options were scattered around in the general and webhooks tab and user pages. These are now grouped. In addition, API keys are no longer found within each user profile. Everything is grouped and a user can have…
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New WooCommerce REST API wrappers
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Now we have wrappers for the WooCommerce REST API: PHP Node.JS Python Ruby It’s possible to find the documentation for each wrapper included within our official REST API docs: Soon we’ll have some new wrappers in other languages too. If you want to collaborate on the development of new wrappers, please let me know (leave…
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Google Analytics Integration 1.4 Beta
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A new version of the Google Analytics plugin for WooCommerce is now ready for testing. You can download beta 1 here: https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce-google-analytics-integration/archive/1.4.0-beta-1.tar.gz Release Highlights Enhanced eCommerce The new plugin now supports enhanced eCommerce tracking. Enabling enhanced analytics allows you to gather information every step of the way. You can now track: Purchase transactions, when an item…
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WooCommerce 2.4 Release Candidate
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The release candidate for WooCommerce 2.4 “Helpful Hedgehog” is now available. There have been ~40 commits since beta 4, including a tweak to the ajax endpoints for wider host support, and some tweaks to the variation editor based on user feedback. As a release candidate, we think it’s ready to ship but we would appreciate…
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Custom AJAX Endpoints in 2.4
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WordPress core offers plugin developers a certain endpoint which they can use for AJAX requests. This endpoint is wp-admin/admin-ajax.php. Despite it’s naming, it can be used for both frontend and admin ajax requests, and can even be used for non-logged in users. We have found one drawback with the use of this endpoint however. It…
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WooCommerce 2.4 Beta 4
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WC 2.4 beta 4 was tagged yesterday evening and is ready to test. Beta 4 should be the final beta before a release candidate is tagged later this week. If you’re an extension of theme author make sure you test as soon as possible. Download WC 2.4 beta 4 If you want to read more about whats…
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How to Beta Test WooCommerce
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Beta testing is vital to ensuring our releases are as bug free as possible, and to ensure we hear user feedback before putting changes live. Anyone can beta test; shop owners, plugin developers, theme developers, translators, any and all help is welcome. We do understand however that the process of testing can be a little bit of a…
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WooCommerce 2.4 Beta Testing Begins
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WC 2.4 dubbed the “Helpful Hedgehog” is being released for testing. This release has been in development for approximately 4 months and has around 1600 commits in total from 27 contributors. TL;DR: You can download beta 1 here: https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/archive/2.4.0-beta–1.tar.gz and optionally take our beta feedback survey here. Release Schedule Beta 1 is out today, July 13th and the beta testing…
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Improving the Variations Interface in 2.4
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In WooCommerce 2.4 we wanted to give users a better experience whilst working with variable products. Variable products have been a headache for some users whom needed to deal with many variations at the same time, mainly due to problems saving, or admin screens and product pages taking too long to long to load. We’ve made changes to improve this experience, changing the…
