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WooCommerce 2.7 beta 3
Today we tagged WooCommerce 2.7 “Bionic Butterfly” beta 3. If you’d like to find out whats new in 2.7, you can read more about 2.7 in our first beta post here and our second beta post here.…
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WooCommerce 2.7 beta 2
Today we tagged WooCommerce 2.7 “Bionic Butterfly” beta 2. It contains a whole host of bug fixes and is ready for testing! if you’d like to find out whats new in 2.7, you can read more…
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WC 2.7 extension compatibility examples #3 – Bookings
Bookings is a complex extension which extends WooCommerce product types to add it’s own ‘Booking’ product type. Due to this, it’s a good example to CRUDify and implement data stores, both new concepts in…
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WooCommerce 2.6.14 security/fix release notes
The WooCommerce 2.6.14 fix release is now available. You can download it from WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~23 commits made it into this release fixing several issues and hardening…
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WC 2.7 extension compatibility examples #2 – Deposits
Our goal this time is to have the WooCommerce Deposits extension work with both WooCommerce versions 2.6.x and 2.7.x, display no notices, and use the CRUD abstraction to future-proof our code. Like in our…
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Improved logging in WooCommerce 2.7
One of the changes coming in 2.7 is an improved log system. We’ve made a significant effort to address the limitations of the logger with a focus on extensibility. In this post I’ll outline…
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WooCommerce 2.6.13 fix release notes
The WooCommerce 2.6.13 fix release is now available. You can download it from WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~8 commits made it into this release fixing a few issues.…
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WC 2.7 extension compatibility examples
Our team have been looking at updating some of our extensions for 2.7 compatibility and we thought it would be good to share our notes in doing so. The first bunch we reviewed were EU…
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Deprecation in WooCommerce Core
Deprecation is a method of discouraging usage of a feature, or practice, in favour of something else without breaking backwards compatibility or totally prohibiting it’s usage. To quote the Wikipedia article on Deprecation: While a deprecated…
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WooCommerce 2.6.12 fix release notes
The WooCommerce 2.6.12 fix release is now available. You can download it from WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~12 commits made it into this release fixing a few issues.…
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WooCommerce 2.6.10 fix release notes
The WooCommerce 2.6.10 fix release is now available. You can download it from WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~30 commits made it into this release fixing several issues. The main…
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WooCommerce 2.7 beta 1 is here
WooCommerce 2.7 codename “Bionic Butterfly” has been tagged in GitHub and is ready for testing! This is a major release with large structural changes to help us work towards a more performant platform. There…
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2.7: A new CLI for WooCommerce
WooCommerce brings many improvements to the WP-CLI powered command-line interface we introduced back in WooCommerce 2.5. WP-CLI is a set of command-line tools for managing WordPress installations Our WC-CLI layer adds tools for managing…
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WooCommerce 2.6.9 Security/Fix Release Notes
The WooCommerce 2.6.9 security/fix release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. ~44 commits made it into this release fixing several minor issues and…
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WooCommerce 2.6.8 Fix Release Notes
We’ve made a small update today (WooCommerce 2.6.8) to fix a few issues. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. This release had ~14 commits. Fixed an issue where…
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The new CRUD classes in WooCommerce 2.7
High order volume is one of the best problems a store can have, but it can really slow down your site’s performance. That’s why our team’s main focus this year (and going into 2017) is performance…
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WooCommerce 2.6.7 Fix Release Notes
We’ve made a small update today (WooCommerce 2.6.7) to fix a few issues. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. This release had ~11 commits. Fixed an issue where…
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WooCommerce 2.6.6 Fix Release Notes
We’ve made a small update and released WooCommerce 2.6.6 today to fix a potential conflict with extensions. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. Only ~2 made…
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WooCommerce 2.6.5 Fix Release Notes
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…
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New product gallery merged in to core for 2.7
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…
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The New WooCommerce Product Image Gallery
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…
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A new product gallery coming to 2.7. Maybe.
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…
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WooCommerce 2.6.4 Fix/Security Release Notes
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…
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WooCommerce 2.6.3 Fix/Security Release Notes
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…
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WooCommerce 2.6.2 Fix Release Notes
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…