Looking for technical details? Read the 3.0 release post on the Develop WooCommerce blog here.
It’s hard to believe it’s been so long since our last major WooCommerce release, but sometimes good things are worth waiting for. 😉
Today we’re proud to unveil the WooCommerce 3.0 release, which includes:
- An updated product gallery with new zoom, gallery view and mobile features
- Multiple speed and performance improvements
- The addition of CRUD classes
- A new CLI powered by the REST API
These are some important additions, and there’s even more to explore in the Bionic Butterfly, so let’s get right down to business!
Show off your product images in the overhauled gallery
↑ Back to topWe’ve been talking about revamping the gallery experience on individual product pages almost since the time of the 2.6 release last year. We hadn’t been satisfied with gallery’s functionality for a long time — especially on mobile devices and smaller screen sizes — and felt it was time for a change.
After taking a poll and doing some internal testing, we eventually came up with a new gallery that had more functionality, was far more mobile-friendly, and was more intuitive than the previous iteration.
Here’s a short video of the gallery in action:
In the overhauled gallery, which will appear on individual product pages, you’ll find:
- Shoppers can now both magnify images from the page, and zoom into them from a lightbox popup
- If you have more than one image, the gallery behaviour is more intuitive; for example, clicking a thumbnail updates the image you’re already viewing instead of opening a lightbox popup window
- Dramatic improvements for mobile gallery views, including touch gestures: swipe to scroll through the gallery, pinch to zoom, and swipe up to close the current image
- Zooming into a product image on mobile now displays the image’s true size — previously it would scale to match the (very small) browser window, not an ideal experience!
We think these improvements create a faster and easier experience for shoppers viewing your product images, especially on mobile devices, and give them the ability to zoom in and see those little details. If you haven’t already, now’s the perfect time to make sure you have multiple product images in place for all of your items!
You can read more about the gallery here, plus find out what you might need to update for compatibility if you’re a theme developer.
Watch for performance improvements, especially in larger stores
↑ Back to topWe’re always working to make WooCommerce faster and more efficient, and this update is no different. We’ve packed several significant performance enhancements into 3.0, which you’re most likely to notice if you have a larger store (specifically with several hundred products or many different variations).
Two of the specific improvements we’d like to point out:
- We now use taxonomies to determine and display product visibility, featured products, and out of stock products instead of the slower post meta, and
- We’ve reduced the number of queries for upsells and related products on product and cart pages.
But this is just a sampling of the improvements we’ve made. The entire list is available on the original beta release post, if you’re curious. But the most important thing you need to know is that we’ve actively working on speeding up larger stores, both in this and future releases.
Introducing CRUD classes — what they are and how they’ll help developers
Up until this release, there were multiple ways for developers write data to the database for orders, products, and so on. Retrieving data could also be done in multiple ways. This all required developers to know what type of data they were trying to modify, and this wasn’t ideal: it was time-consuming and complicated.
To optimize data storage, we need to ensure that developers use a single method of writing and retrieving data. So that’s why we’re introducing CRUD classes with this release.
CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update, Delete — the four basic operations you can do to a resource. With the CRUD classes added to WooCommerce 3.0, you can modify orders, products, customers, line items, shipping zones, payment tokens, and coupons with less code across a unified system.
The benefits of this addition:
- We define the data for each resource and control its flow and validation
- You’ll only need to know the names of the data you’re working with, instead of the types or internal details
- The data can be moved elsewhere (like custom tables) without affecting existing code
- Less code means fewer changes, plus more tests
For more info on the CRUD classes in WooCommerce and how to use them, read Mike’s post announcing their addition to this release on the Develop WooCommerce blog.
Manage data faster with the new CLI
↑ Back to topOne more treat for developers: we’ve overhauled our command line interface (CLI). Initially, the WooCommerce CLI was powered by its own code separate from the REST API. This meant code could be duplicated accidentally across the code base, and that certain things possible in the REST API were not possible at all with the CLI.
The new CLI is powered by the REST API, and is a fork of Restful. This reduces the amount of code we’ll need to maintain, provides you with more power, and means that the commands will always be current as we improve the REST API.
Justin’s post on the Develop WooCommerce blog has more details, plus a list of commands you can use starting today.
And that’s not all
Truth be told, WooCommerce 3.0 has much more going for it than what we’ve highlighted so far, but it’s hard to fit it all into a single post. Here are some more changes you might want to know about:
- Automatic sorting of tax rates, which makes it easier to add and manage new tax zones
- The sitewide notice is now dismissable by customers
- WordPress networks/multisite user handling has been updated so that WooCommerce will add existing users to the current store if the user already has an account in the same network (this resulted in an error in 2.6)
- We’ve merged cart percent and product percent coupon types into one method, reducing confusion and errors caused by cart-based validation
- And finally, improved logging for developers
You can read a full list of changes and features in the beta release post on our development blog.
Why this release is 3.0 instead of 2.7
↑ Back to topAs you may have seen in emails or chatter online, this release was originally planned to be numbered as 2.7, and released in mid-March. But our plans changed in the process of beta testing, and as we announced, we felt it was time to move to a new release system.
Moving forward, WooCommerce releases will use Semantic Versioning, which dictates that major releases — those with API changes or the potential to affect extension compatibility, like this one — receive a new major version number (ex. 4.0, 5.0). Minor releases and patches, on the other hand, will receive point versions (ex. 3.1, 3.2).
We’re using this method in an attempt to better describe what each release contains, and tell you at a glance how much of a potential impact a release might have on your store. We hope this also increases confidence in minor releases and patches, and helps you update WooCommerce more quickly when one of these updates is released.
Additionally, moving forward, we plan to add more time for beta and release candidate testing after new major versions are announced. This is due to helpful feedback we received on our (then) 2.7 release post from developers who wanted more time to test.
We’re incredibly appreciative of all of the feedback and advice that led to us implementing this new release system, both Semantic Versioning and the longer testing periods. We’re eager to try this out with the next few updates and look forward to further feedback from you on how it goes!
Ready to try the Bionic Butterfly? Your update is waiting
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We hope you’ve enjoyed reading about WooCommerce 3.0. When you’re ready to give it a shot, review our documentation about how to update, make sure your backups are in place, and then grab the update from your WordPress Dashboard.
If you run into an issue while updating or find what you think is a bug, here’s what to do:
- Think you’ve found a bug with 3.0 or a conflict with another plugin? Report it to us via our GitHub issue tracker.
- Having trouble with the upgrade? Visit our support page to open a ticket.
- Just want to chat about the release, or have a great idea for the next version? Start the discussion on the public WooCommerce forums at WordPress.org.
Please note that we are not able to diagnose or solve potential issues via blog comments. The fastest way to get in touch with us is via one of the methods listed above. But we are always excited to read your feedback and give general advice.
For specific things to look out for with 3.0, potential compatibility issues and ongoing updates are on our development blog.
What do you think of the Bionic Butterfly? Let us know in the comments!
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Dear Madam, i use woocommerce for my ecommerce website, if i update woocommerce 3 version , will my ecommerce data like category list, product list will be the same or after update woocommerce 3 it ll delete my everything? please madam let me know, it ll be huge helpful for me. thnx a lot Madam.
Ahasan habib
Hi there Ahasan, when you update your WooCommerce version all your data will remain intact (including your products, categories, theme, etc). The update is designed just to upgrade the software powering your store. It’s a bit like updating the software on your Apple or Android phone or Mac or Windows computer, more features are added but your data is preserved.
That said, we always recommend making a backup of your store before a major update like this one just in case you run into trouble, especially because the open source nature of WordPress and WooCommerce means some extensions/plugins might not be prepared to «play nice» with 3.0 just yet. 🙂 You can read more about best practices for updating here: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/how-to-update-your-site/
Hope that helps!
Do a full backup before updating, files and database. It will take a few weeks for two required things to happen for successful WooCommerce 3.0 updates in store environments with multiple Plugins for WooCommerce active:
1. for the majority of Theme and Plugin developers to get WC 3.0 compatibility releases out, and
2. for store owners to install those Plugin updates
#1 has been mostly taken care of thanks to the April 4 release extension but #2 is where store owners are going to get hit hard updating WC before other Plugins.
I closed my eyes and hit the update for WC, and then all my plugins that had updates. And BOOM it works perfect!
Of course the backup was done first…………
This is like music to our ears, even with a smooth update a backup is a wonderful peace of mind!
You can make it even better by having a copy of your site on a staging setup mirroring your live site environment. Then you can test everything with your particular setup to see if anything goes awry.
If all went well you can do the same updates on your live site knowing you tested it AND you have backups. 😀
should i wait until you update again?.. maybe 3.1
coz i’m afraid if some of our extension not compatible with new Woocommerce.
btw do you have any list of woo extension that compatible with 3.0 ?
please let me know. Thanks
I always do that. 🙂
Well, it did take a little longer than expected but it’s definitely worth the wait Nicole.
definitely worth waiting for nicole
After updating most of my products when on sale even though there is no such setting on them. So now I have the old and new price the same and sale label everywhere. I’ve update everything even my theme, but nothing helped
I have the same issue!!
ALL products became on «SALE» suddenly although the price didn’t change.
Very much need this to be resolved asap.
Hey there Olga – try 3.0.1 if you’ve got some time and see if this is resolved for you? https://woocommerce.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/woocommerce-3-0-1-fix-release-notes/
Let us know 🙂
This is great and i must update and try the new features out…
Bigup
Hi, I have a problem with woocommerce 3.0, since a few hours, and After the update, the system do not send automatically emails. Manually it works. What should I do? Thanks a lot.
Hey there, sorry to hear this! The update shouldn’t have affected your emails but we are seeing reports of a bug with emails sending multiple times: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-order-emails-with-3-0/
Best advice here would be to open a ticket so we can track this and see if it’s caused by the same thing (ex. a specific host, something in the store configuration, etc).
Same problem here. I followed Nicole’s advice and opened a ticket. Otherwise everything seems to be working smoothly.
As an update, we’ve resolved some issues with emails in 3.0.2: https://woocommerce.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/woocommerce-3-0-2-fix-release-notes/
Hoping this helps everybody 🙂
I’ve just updated to Woo 3 on Allegiant theme and there doesn’t seem to be a product gallery any more, just links to full size pics. Am I missing something?
Same problem here, all images on product detail pages are gone. Theme Hamburg. Please advise!
Your themes might not have been updated by their creators to declare support for the new gallery. We try to communicate with developers in advance of major updates like this (and will be giving them even more time moving forward) so this doesn’t happen, but it’s unfortunately something that does still happen, especially since plugins can still interfere.
The first step to troubleshooting here is to temporarily switch to the Storefront theme and see if the gallery appears properly — if not, it might be a plugin or other conflict (custom code etc)
We definitely recommend getting in touch with the theme developers with screenshots to get them to update ASAP if it is the theme. If not, please open a ticket with us and we’ll get you sorted.
Our apologies for the hassle!
same problem with the theme Sela !! :'(
Unfortunately, there’s more: when I try to edit details of a product in admin, it breaks with a Http Error 500. 🙁
That DEFINITELY shouldn’t be happening. Let me know what your ticket number is please? Want to follow up on this and see what’s causing it.
Same Problem here. Trying to edit any product throws a 500 error. Please advise.
Same problem. Theme: Accesspress Basic Pro.
Bonjour,
depuis la dernière mise à jour, j’ai un problème avec les liens de téléchargements que j’ai dans mes produits, lorsqu’on clique sur un des liens il prends en compte que le premier liens.
exemple :
liens 1 = site.com/fichier1.rar
liens 2 = site.com/fichier2.rar
lorsqu’on clique sur liens 2 il télécharge le liens 1, et quand on clique sur le liens 1 il télécharge bien le liens 1…
Une aide est possible ?
cordialement
Hi,
We just updated to Woo 3 and it destroyed our shop completely. We are missing everything.
We are currently using DIVI, and a number of Woo injectors and plugins. Something is seriously not working well with it.
Help please.
Pinky,
I’m a divi dude and glad i read your post. are you still down?
With Best Regards,
-Carmine
We have backups in place and have recovered from this!
We are still looking for a solution.
Hey there,
I’m sorry to hear your site hasn’t faired well through the 3.0 update. When you say destroyed what is happening specifically? 🙁
I do hope you have a backup strategy in place where you could quickly restore the site to when it was working. From there you will want to work with a staging environment that mirrors your live site to test updates and figure out what is causing the issues.
You can always reach out to our support team for help and advice.
We do indeed have a backup strategy in place. We rolled back and its working now.
When we updated to Woo3.0 we lost all our products, footers and headers on the shop page. The only thing that we can see is the menu, nothing else. All other pages are untouched though.
What we are doing now is mirroring everything on a new cPanle and trying to understand why this is happening.
We have so many plugins and extensions, woo injectors, DIVI injectors ext ext.. it could be anything.
We might have to start from scratch though. Fortunately we are not live yet, but this is months of work.
Best practice is to disable everything but WooCommerce, switch to a basic theme (like Storefront or Twenty Sixteen/Seventeen) and re-enable items one-by-one until you see errors.
Also, unfortunately, we’ve done our best to let theme and plugin/extension developers know about the update ahead of time (and will continue to give more time for testing in the future) but if those themes or add-ons aren’t updated for compatibility, they’ll cause conflicts in unexpected ways. Our support team is keeping an eye out for common issues and might be able to look at your system report and tell you what’s incompatible based on what they’ve seen on other sites.
Definitely keep in touch with our support team, they are going through 3.0 incompatibility reports and helping customers like you 24/7 right now.
Thank you for your help.
We have started to rebuild the shop. We realised we have too much happening and believe that it would be better to cut it down to the minimum as possible, as few plugins as possible.
We can’t risk this happening when we go live.
Keep you posted.
If we do need help, how can we reach out to you?
Head over to https://woocommerce.com/my-account/tickets/ and open a ticket – that’s the best way to get help at any stage 🙂
Feel free to reach out at any time, our support team is absolutely happy to lend a hand, answer questions, etc. That’s what they’re here for 😀
Hi,
Thanks for such a wonderful plugin, I had an issue when I update woocommerce to 3.0 version, My product archive page added Short description and I want to hide it but it is not hiding, I tried to hide it via css but still issue is not resolve.
Here is the screenshot: https://www.screencast.com/t/jBLoZamnRr
This problem arise when I update woocommerce to 3.0 version.
I’ve got that problem too but only when I call the archive from the Product Category widget. If I call via a shortcode in the page the short description is hidden. Not a solution but might help the debuggers.
The revamped product gallery looks nothing like that video up there, just flat thumbnails linked to the image. Nothing like the rather nice galleries in the previous version.
Here’s hoping 3.1 comes soon!
My site is now conflicted with the Woo Commerce plugin update – continually re-loading and refreshing…guess I made a big mistake in pressing the update button on dashboard. Now I don’t know what to do. Sent in a support ticket.
I did the same as you.. regretting it.. Just gotta go back to my 24 hour backup.. but still.. 24 hours of work gone..
I believe this was an issue with geolocation setting, see the thread here.
Just to add – I deactivated all my plugins and switched on Woo Commerce plugin (3.0), and it causes the continual refresh/ loading problem – so the conflict is ONLY with woo commerce plugin, no others….thoughts please how to troubleshoot? Thanks.
Hey there, are you using geolocation on your store by chance? See this Github thread: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/13902
If so, try temporarily disabling it to see if the loop ends and please let us know. If not, can you let me know what your ticket number is so I can track it?
Apologies for the hassle, we will fix this ASAP for you.
My site went into infinity loop for all pages after updated to v3.0.0.. Please help!!!
Hey there, are you using geolocation by chance? See this thread: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/13902
If so, try temporarily disabling it and see if that works. If not, please open a ticket if you haven’t already so we can investigate.
Either way we’ll get you fixed up ASAP — apologies for the trouble!
Hi, Yes, I’m selected «Geo-location (with page caching support)». It is solved my issue after changing the setting to «Geo-Location».. Thank You.
Glad to hear this – we’ll get this fixed ASAP.
As an update, this should now be fully fixed in the most recent patch (we’re up to 3.0.2 as of my comment). Geolocation with caching should be all good for y’all again. 🙂
Thanks for finally upgrading to semantic versioning! Messages like ‘2.6 is a major release’ make my developer brain hurt.
Haha, thanks Aaron! We were trying to follow the WordPress release versioning, I think, but I agree that this will make more sense moving forward.
I’m working on a new site with no plugins and have updated WooCommerce. However the image zoom feature when clicking on the main image opens in a new page rather than a lightbox. Same with the thumbnails. Switching to twenty seventeen and the zoom icon shows but distorts the image!
Hey Steven, this doesn’t sound right. Out of curiosity (and apologies for asking you to test another theme), does this also happen for you with Storefront?
We’d definitely like to have a look at this, so please open a ticket when you get a chance.
Thanks a lot. All works great. I must check new feature
Hi, Thanks for upgrading, but seem like the «Sold individually» in not in function after ticking. Customer still able to select the quantity and after while my item is showing «Sorry, this product is unavailable. Please choose a different combination» cant purchasable. Please advice =(
Hey Kalvin, the first step here in troubleshooting is to temporarily switch to a different theme (ex. Storefront or Twenty Seventeen) and see if that resolves the issue — we’ve sometimes seen errors like these pop up on themes that haven’t yet been updated.
If it goes away, we recommend contacting the theme developer with your issue so they can fix it ASAP. If not, please open a ticket with us, we’re standing by to look into any possible issues/conflicts and will happily investigate. Sorry for the inconvenience so far!
Luckily I had my files backed up before upgrading I think we’ve got a fatal error on the checkout page when we tried doing the update. When exactly was this particular one released? I was notified on the 4th and I’m not exactly sure if it was 3.0 or 2.7 … Was 3.0 just released today?
Hey Chris, take a quick gander through the part of this post where we talk about 2.7 changing to 3.0 and why that happened.
For help with the fatal error, please reach out to support, we’d be more than happy to find out why this is happening — we’ve got ninjas standing by and ready to troubleshoot.
hello, woocommerce 3, is recommended for ecommerce with about 1300 items or too many? (Items with variants are about 150)
thank you so much
1300 products is a piece of cake, go for it 🙂
nothing works, well done…
If you have a problem with 3.0 you need to use plugging Rollback, it helped me!
How do you know what to roll it back to?
There’s nothing at all stopping you from using the Rollback plugin, but be forewarned: That plugin will «rollback» your site’s files – only the files. It will not rollback the database update that happened with the 3.0 update.
Clarity: Files=Functions & Database=Information
So, while you could simply «rollback» to version 2.6.14, here’s what that rollback will not fix:
A Theme bought from an author who took zero interest in keeping up with WooCommerce Updates
Plugins which have been bought / installed / downloaded / activated which are in direct conflict with WooCommerce 3.0
Custom functions added which are not compatible with WooCommerce’s 3.0 Update
Think of your store as a body with a circulatory system, nervous system, & muscular system. Everything is connected
Good comment Brad.
Works, figured it out, thank you…not going to use 3.0 until they work the bugs out, literally not one single plug in worked, not one, even Woocommerce extensions…that is a problem. I am sure they will get the problems ironed out as I like the concepts of the new gallery but don’t want to be the guinea pig in the test lab.
As a reminder, please open a ticket with support about any issues you are having. As we mentioned in the post, these blog comments are not the place to troubleshoot errors. We cannot see your site, validate the authenticity of your statements, know the exact details of your configuration, etc.
Many times issues causing an «entire site» to stop functioning are caused by a theme that has not been updated and it takes our support folks five minutes to point that out to you, versus hours waiting for someone to respond to a comment.
Thanks for bearing with us. 🙂
While I hear the «guinea pig» frustration, please understand that your store is not a ‘test lab’.
Both theme authors and plugin developers (the reputable ones at least) have had ample time, advanced notice, fair notice, and perfectly documented line-by-line changes regarding the newest version of WooCommerce.
DECEMBER 15, 2016 ~ ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN DAYS AGO
https://woocommerce.wordpress.com/2016/12/15/woocommerce-2-7-beta-1-is-here/
FEBRUARY 9, 2017 ~ 55 DAYS AGO
https://woocommerce.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/woocommerce-2-7-beta-2/
FEBRUARY 17, 2017 ~ 47 DAYS AGO
https://woocommerce.wordpress.com/2017/02/17/woocommerce-2-7-beta-3/
«…they work the bugs out, literally not one single plug in worked, not one, even Woocommerce extensions…that is a problem»
Actually, look at the changelog on most of the Official WooCommerce Extensions. What you’ll see is some peace of mind knowing that some (Yes. Again, it’s only some) of the more reputable developers have indeed kept up-to-date with their development of Extensions.
Is that everyone? Of course not! Some developers ride the coat-tails of WooCommerce all the way to the bank and seemingly only give updates and compatibility an after thought.
But check out Skyverge’s (and a few others) changelogs for example.
Subscriptions from Prospress:
http://dzv365zjfbd8v.cloudfront.net/changelogs/woocommerce-memberships/changelog.txt
Skyverge’s Social Login:
https://dzv365zjfbd8v.cloudfront.net/changelogs/woocommerce-social-login/changelog.txt
Does Product Reviews Pro from Skyverge Work:
https://dzv365zjfbd8v.cloudfront.net/changelogs/woocommerce-product-reviews-pro/changelog.txt
Is Skyverge’s Memberships Extension updated for WooCommerce’s 3.0 Update:
http://dzv365zjfbd8v.cloudfront.net/changelogs/woocommerce-memberships/changelog.txt
See the pattern? While there’s several thousand plugins floating in canyons, found on the innerwebs, (limited) versions in the .org area, some of them keep their customers happy 🙂
some don’t 🙁
Sorry you’re having a rough time with the updates. I am!
At the same time though, it sounds like the bugs might be in «various» 😉 areas of your store’s setup.
Do you work for Woo if so you should clarify your affiliation. As already stated above, I am not using a bunch of random, externally developed plug ins, most of what I have is Woo extensions, I al absolutely in a test lab scenario if an update is deployed and doesn’t work with top, common plug ins or themes. Basics should work. And I contacted Woo support, I was
told to use rollback, I don’t think they would have said that if things deployed as they should. Judging by the list of similar experiences here, they have more testing to do and I will patiently wait as I do not have time in a busy store to fix plug ins. Fyi two of the plug ins I used that were not Woo developed had zero clue about 3.0, so word didn’t get out well I guess.
Any Automattic employees commenting in this thread will have their comments marked in green (as mine is). Brad is a member of the community spending his own time trying to help others (just as someone might on the WordPress.org forums, on GitHub, etc).
In previous version of product gallery I use ‘named material’ images. The updated product gallery doesn’t show the name or description text. Not usable anymore… Can you fix so that the filename or image description is shown with the image. Please…
Hey there, just as an update here, 3.0.2 should now resolve this: https://woocommerce.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/woocommerce-3-0-2-fix-release-notes/
Hi
After the update, i don’t have any onsale prices on my website. Nothing works. WTF???
As an update, either 3.0.1 or 3.0.2 should resolve this for you (and anyone else who might run into this bug): https://woocommerce.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/woocommerce-3-0-2-fix-release-notes/
OMG, I just launched my site yesterday, stupidly update to 3.0 and my site is hosed! Sliders gone, images not populating on product pages, my mobile menus gone, everything wiped! Is it possible to restore to a previous version, crap crap crap!
Did you make a backup before updating? If so, restore your backup.
All work great. I must check the new features now 😉
What is your site url? I want to see a site this didn’t hose?
This is a («working») demo site:
https://emojithreads.com
I use it for MeetUps, WordCamps, testing plugins, php7 version tests, my 12 year old wanted an emoji shirt, & I needed a live («not local») demo to test layouts, keyboard inputs, and let other developers see it live as well.
Yes it’s been running beta versions of WooCommerce from day one. :-O Now, at any given moment, you can find who-know-what going on with the Extensions 😉 Nonetheless, it still works. Nothing is «hosed».
But that’s only because I keep WooCommere stores on a strict set of standards. And, yes connected456789, YOU can do it too! 😉
If you’ve got a 2003 Chevy Suburban, you wouldn’t put a starter from a 2014 Ford F-150 in it would you? :-O Of course not.
The same is true with your store. It makes you money. It puts food on the table for you, perhaps your family, and maybe even creates a line of wealth and income for many people’s families! (which is totally awesome)
Keep your store walking a very fine line and WooCommerce will pay and yield dividends, money, opportunity, and wealth beyond what you’re seeing.
I PROMISE!
This site doesn’t even have categories and is difficult to navigate. In the real world you need a clean site with proper organization. I don’t know how you test anything on a half baked site like that. I seriously don’t understand your motivation for posting on every thread arguing with people’s experience or insulting them with your «I only use strict compliance none sense». Every plug in stopped working, all
of them. That is universal. I didn’t create the problem, clicking the update button did. My site worked just fine before that and my plugins and theme and everything else updated. Also works fine again after the rollback. I al not bashing Woocommerce, I absolutely love the platform, but there are clear bugs in 3.0 that need fixing. Fact of life not something to get sensitive over, you seem to take this to personal dude, lighten up.
Hey there — apologies if the discussion in our comments has upset you. We see a lot of community members trying to help each other out here and on other forums, which I’m sure was Brad’s intent (to assist).
Regarding your site, the 3.0.1 patch was released last week to address the incompatibilities discovered upon release: https://woocommerce.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/woocommerce-3-0-1-fix-release-notes/ Please give that a try if you’ve got some time to do so (though I’d recommend creating a staging site for testing, both for this and future releases, particularly if you have a lot of extensions/themes and regardless of their source).
Let us know if we can help in any way, you are welcome to open a ticket on any specific issues and our team will find out what is needed to resolve them.
Thanks Alex! Give us a shout if you have any feedback.
i did an update, now the shortcodes that were previously working are not working anymore like
[featured_products per_page="50" columns="4"]
also when i go to wp-admin and view the products list my site times out.
what happened ?
I was encountering the same issue and then I read this:
«Featured products are also using the new product_visibility taxonomy instead of meta which improves queries on those.»
So I thought I’d do a «quick edit» on one of my featured products, and look for the product_visibility taxonomy. I then unticked and re-ticked featured, hit save, and my featured products began working again.
Hope that helps others rectify the issue.
Thanks James!
Thank you SO much for posting that. I was getting kinda cranky trying to figure that one out.
Will it be possible to edit the order total from now on?
The field is still editable in the admin area, but saving always recalculates the value, regardless of user input.
updating to ver 3 screwed my site up, shortcodes not working and the products page via admin is timing out
I am having issues when I send a customer an invoice. The link returns the Pay for Order page, but shows «Invalid order» error. I checked the system status, but it does not look like the checkout/form-pay.php file was changed.
So an update to this issue… A user can pay for their order, but they have to be logged in. I do not allow guest orders during checkout, so this kind of makes sense, but before v3.0 if i sent someone a link to that order they could pay without logging in – I like it much better that way.
Hey Josh, this is definitely something that merits a ticket so we can dive in and have a look. Might not have been an intentional change or the result of a conflict somewhere. Apologies for the hassle!
Looks good over here, but did you take away the «item» column on the Orders page in admin? I always only used that instead of actually clicking and loading every single order.
Hey Karl, there’s some info on that here (our dev blog): https://woocommerce.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/say-hello-to-woocommerce-3-0-bionic-butterfly/
If this causes you issues we can definitely take that feedback into consideration for the future redesign as mentioned 🙂
Seriously? How else is a Shop Manager supposed to see what customers have ordered? The only place to get that information now is to track down the email notification. And depending on the server, email provider, or email client, email can have a tendency to be delayed, deleted or even lost in transit. Not a good idea removing those item details. Please bring them back.
I agree with Industry, to woocommerce users that is an unnecessary removal that only negatively impacts our business with even longer actions to processing orders… good job. I use it to quickly see what the user bought after order, and even follow ups, terrible update so far.
You say its for performance? wow, are you running your computer on Windows 3.1 aswell? I am sure our computers can keep up…
Please don’t tell me you guys are going to make a plug-in to view order items and make us pay $100 a year for it…
No. As stated in the development post linked in my prior comment, we are considering adding this back.
I will pass this feedback along to our developers.
In the meantime there is a workaround linked from this ideas page (where you can also vote for this to be rebuilt with the previously referred to performance issues removed, which was, again, the reason for removal): http://ideas.woocommerce.com/forums/133476-woocommerce/suggestions/18832222-dynamically-display-order-content-on-orders-page