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  • WooCommerce 3.1 Beta has landed
    WooCommerce 3.1 Beta has landed

    Today we’re pleased to announce that WooCommerce 3.1 is available for beta testing! You can download WC 3.1 Beta 1 here. Release highlights You may have noticed that it’s only been a couple of…

  • June 6th: Dev chat #5
    June 6th: Dev chat #5

    It’s time for our 5th dev chat, if you missed something in the last one, you can recap our summary here. The next chat will be on June 6th at 16:00 UTC in the #core…

  • Dev Chat Summary: May 23rd
    Dev Chat Summary: May 23rd

    This post summarises the dev chat meeting from May 23rd (agenda, Slack archive). Progress with importer/exporter Wrapping up development this week! We have a branch for testing: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/tree/feature/product-csv-import-export Merge is supported, based on ID and/or…

  • May 23rd: Dev chat #4
    May 23rd: Dev chat #4

    It’s time for our 4th dev chat, if you missed something in the last one, you can recap our summary here. The next chat will be on May 23rd at 16:00 UTC in the #core channel…

  • WooCommerce 3.0.7 fix release notes
    WooCommerce 3.0.7 fix release notes

    The WooCommerce 3.0.7 fix release is now available. You can download it from WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~24 commits made it into this fix release. The full changelog is…

  • Dev Chat Summary: May 9th
    Dev Chat Summary: May 9th

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from May 9th. (agenda, Slack archive). How we deal with “random” products and caching Currently results from product shortcodes are saved in cache for 30 days, and this is…

  • Display product weight on archive pages
    Display product weight on archive pages

    To display WooCommerce product weight on archive pages, below the title of the product, add this code to your child theme’s functions.php file or via a plugin that allows custom functions to be added, such as…

  • WooCommerce 3.0.6 fix release notes
    WooCommerce 3.0.6 fix release notes

    The WooCommerce 3.0.6 fix release is now available. You can download it from WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~47 commits made it into this fix release. The full changelog is…

  • May 9th: Dev chat #3
    May 9th: Dev chat #3

    It’s time for our third dev chat, if you missed something in the last one, you can recap our summary here. Our third dev chat will be on May 9th at 16:00 UTC in…

  • WooCommerce 3.0.5 fix release notes
    WooCommerce 3.0.5 fix release notes

    The WooCommerce 3.0.5 fix release is now available. You can download it from WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~44 commits made it into this fix release. The full changelog is…

  • Dev Chat Summary: April 25th
    Dev Chat Summary: April 25th

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from April 25th. (agenda, Slack archive). Product Admin UI Mock-up of proposed redesign. The UI changes are primarily to reduce confusion with new users. Product data panel…

  • WooCommerce 3.0.4 fix release notes
    WooCommerce 3.0.4 fix release notes

    The WooCommerce 3.0.4 fix release is now available. You can download it from WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~77 commits made it into this fix release. The full changelog is…

  • April 25th: Second Dev Chat
    April 25th: Second Dev Chat

    Last week was our first developer chat. Thanks to everyone that attended. If you weren’t able to be there, you can read the summary. Our second dev chat will be on April 25th at…

  • WooCommerce 3.0.3 fix release notes
    WooCommerce 3.0.3 fix release notes

    The WooCommerce 3.0.3 fix release is now available. You can download it from WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. This release fixes several issues we’ve had reported and found ourselves whilst…

  • WooCommerce 3.0.2 fix release notes
    WooCommerce 3.0.2 fix release notes

    The WooCommerce 3.0.2 fix release is now available. You can download it from WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. This release fixes several issues we’ve had reported and found ourselves whilst…

  • Dev Chat Summary: April 11th.
    Dev Chat Summary: April 11th.

    This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from April 11th. (agenda, Slack archive). CRUD Search Helpers Open Issue. We need to investigate wether we can re-use WP_Tax_Query or not. Actual taxonomy storage probably won’t…

  • WooCommerce 3.0.1 fix release notes
    WooCommerce 3.0.1 fix release notes

    The WooCommerce 3.0.1 fix release is now available. You can download it from WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. This release fixes issues reported since 3.0.0 launch on Github and the…

  • Say hello to WooCommerce 3.0 “Bionic Butterfly”
    Say hello to WooCommerce 3.0 “Bionic Butterfly”

    Today we’re excited to release WooCommerce 3.0 (previously 2.7), dubbed the “Bionic Butterfly”, into the wild! 3.0 has been in beta since December, development since August, and has had over 3000 commits from 115 contributors. Read on…

  • April 11th: First Dev Chat & 3.1 Kick-off
    April 11th: First Dev Chat & 3.1 Kick-off

    We previously announced that we would begin holding developer chats every two weeks with the community on our Slack. These chats will take place in the new #core channel — a channel meant to…

  • End-to-end testing WooCommerce
    End-to-end testing WooCommerce

    It is important for developers to be able to easily and quickly test new versions of WooCommerce. The Core Testing Checklist has 30 items in it, and is a manual process. Running through the whole thing…

  • WooCommerce 3.0.0 RC2
    WooCommerce 3.0.0 RC2

    WooCommerce 3.0.0 RC2 is available for testing. This fixes a bunch of issues from 3.0.0 RC1 which we’ve spent the last 2 weeks working on. Notable fixes include: Fixed some edge case gallery issues…

  • Developer Chats.
    Developer Chats.

    Starting with the 3.1 release cycle, we will begin holding dev chats every 2 weeks. These meetings will happen every other Tuesday on WooCommerce Slack and are open to the community. Each chat will…

  • WooCommerce 3.0.0 RC1
    WooCommerce 3.0.0 RC1

    This was quite the week. A few days ago we announced the decision to reversion and release 2.7 as 3.0.0. This was due to finding a critical bug in the way the system handles timestamps, which…

  • Important update regarding the upcoming WooCommerce release; 2.7 will be 3.0.0
    Important update regarding the upcoming WooCommerce release; 2.7 will be 3.0.0

    tl;dr: We’re re-versioning WooCommerce 2.7 as WooCommerce 3.0.0, and releasing this on 4th April 2017. We found a critical bug in the way the system handles timestamps, which wasn’t caught sooner, and have had numerous requests…

  • WooCommerce 2.7 Release Candidate
    WooCommerce 2.7 Release Candidate

    The release candidate for WooCommerce 2.7 “Bionic Butterfly” is now available! Shipping a release candidate (RC) means we think we’re done, but with hundreds of thousands of stores and so many plugins and themes…