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  • Time to start translating WooCommerce 2.5
    Time to start translating WooCommerce 2.5

    WooCommerce 2.5 will be released in January – the Release Candidate will be available between Jan 4th–8th 2016 just after we’ve recovered from our new year hangovers. That means we have around a month to translate 134 new…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.12 fix release
    WooCommerce 2.4.12 fix release

    Just a small update today – 2.4.12 release is now available. You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. A total of ~10 commits made it into…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.11 fix release (4.4 compatible)
    WooCommerce 2.4.11 fix release (4.4 compatible)

    The WooCommerce 2.4.11 release is now available! You can download it on WordPress.org or as an automatic update in your administration panel. A total of ~49 commits made it into this release fixing a…

  • WooCommerce 2.5 Beta 2
    WooCommerce 2.5 Beta 2

    November has been a busy month for the WC core squad; prepping for WordPress 4.4 support, working on the 2.4.11 fix release (out Monday) and getting 2.5 beta 2 prepped and ready. We’re happy…

  • WooCommerce 2.5 Beta 1
    WooCommerce 2.5 Beta 1

    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…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.9 security and fix release
    WooCommerce 2.4.9 security and fix release

    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…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.8 fix release
    WooCommerce 2.4.8 fix release

    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…

  • New session handler in 2.5
    New session handler in 2.5

    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…

  • Sneak Peek: WP CLI Support in WooCommerce 2.5
    Sneak Peek: WP CLI Support in WooCommerce 2.5

    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…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.7 fix release available
    WooCommerce 2.4.7 fix release available

    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…

  • Moving languages packs to WordPress.org
    Moving languages packs to WordPress.org

    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…

  • Caching and dynamic pricing – upcoming changes to the get_variation_prices method
    Caching and dynamic pricing – upcoming changes to the get_variation_prices method

    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;…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.6 Fix Release Available
    WooCommerce 2.4.6 Fix Release Available

    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…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.5 Fix Release Available
    WooCommerce 2.4.5 Fix Release Available

    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…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.4 Fix Release Available
    WooCommerce 2.4.4 Fix Release Available

    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…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.3 Fix Release Available
    WooCommerce 2.4.3 Fix Release Available

    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…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.2 Fix Release Available
    WooCommerce 2.4.2 Fix Release Available

    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…

  • WooCommerce 2.4.1 Fix Release Available
    WooCommerce 2.4.1 Fix Release Available

    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…

  • Hooray! The Helpful Hedgehog is here
    Hooray! The Helpful Hedgehog is here

    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…

  • API Settings and the API Authentication Endpoint in 2.4
    API Settings and the API Authentication Endpoint in 2.4

    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…

  • New WooCommerce REST API wrappers
    New WooCommerce REST API wrappers

    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…

  • Google Analytics Integration 1.4 Beta
    Google Analytics Integration 1.4 Beta

    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…

  • WooCommerce 2.4 Release Candidate
    WooCommerce 2.4 Release Candidate

    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…

  • Custom AJAX Endpoints in 2.4
    Custom AJAX Endpoints in 2.4

    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…

  • WooCommerce 2.4 Beta 4
    WooCommerce 2.4 Beta 4

    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…