Roadmap insights
Stay ahead with insights into what we’re working on at WooCommerce.
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WooCommerce in 2024 and beyond: Roadmap update
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Welcome to a special edition post, brought to you by Beau Lebens, Head of Engineering for Woo. Today, I’d like to share some insight into our plans for WooCommerce, Woo’s core product, over the course of the rest of the year and beyond. In this post, I’ll outline our priorities for the coming year, highlighting…
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WooCommerce 2016 core wishlist
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With 2015 and 2.5 (almost) out of the way, we’ve started looking forward to 2016 and the next major release. WC 2.6 has already been partially roadmapped on Github and on our roadmap Trello board,… Read more
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Time to start translating WooCommerce 2.5
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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 strings… Read more
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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… Read more
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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,… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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Making Geolocation Static Cache Friendly in 2.4
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WooCommerce 2.3 introduced a neat feature which allowed you to geolocate your customers to set their initial location, showing correct taxes and shipping values without the customer needing to input their address. Although this worked well,… Read more