Mike and Jay are working tirelessly around the clock, ensuring some great momentum with more significant upgrades to WooCommerce and more extensions that we are pleased to report on.
WooCommerce Version 1.1
The most important feature of Version 1.1 is that it is fully compatible with the beta versions of WordPress 3.3, ensuring no hiccups and complete peace of mind when it comes time to upgrade.
Noteworthy new features:
- Allow users to add thumbnails for product categories that can be reserved for brand logos, or generic product images.
- Optional product dimension fields can be filled in to provide further product information.
- Drag and drop term ordering so that variation options can be sorted.
- Filters for tax rates, and a hook for payment complete order status.
- Hard crop option for product images.
- Ability to change product permalinks to include category.
- General JS & CSS revisions for faster, more stable usage.
New Extensions
As like last week we have been working on even more payment gateways. WooCommerce can now take payments via DIBS with the DIBS Form extension, and with the eWAY (Australia) extension one can use the Australian payment gateway eWAY.
We also have released the Disability VAT Exemption extension for store owners selling to charities or customers with disabilities whom are exempt from paying VAT. The extension adds a simple form to the checkout process which allows the customer to enter details which are attached to the order, and exempts them from paying VAT.
Lastly, we’ve released a newsletter subscription extension that allows you to easily integrate with MailChimp and CampaignMonitor via bespoke options screen in the WooCommerce settings.
The extension adds a dashboard widget which displays recent subscriber activity and a sidebar widget for placing a signup form in your sidebar or any other widgetised area. On the checkout page a subscribe checkbox is also inserted automatically.
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Aweber integration in the works, maybe?
Maybe. Their API isn’t the best though, which complicates things.
In the next WooCommerce update would it be possible to consider enabling custom fields on products so that we can customise and include additional details/features to product pages. Also the ability to add pdf files to products so that users can download supporting data sheets/product information on the product pages would be awesome!
We’ve had a lot of requests for this and it’s something we’ll be looking into. I believe it to be a fairly niche feature though so will most likely arrive as an extension.
Dont forget to add / vote up your ideas on our ideasboard; http://ideas.woocommerce.com/forums/133476-woocommerce/topics/134100-how-can-we-improve-woocommerce-/filter/top
You can just add a .pdf in the product description details section. As for custom input fields, I think they are working on that. It’s something I suggested in the Woo Ideas forum that is now « planned »!
You should just add pdf files to the products by making a zip or rar archive. Not only do you have greater protection against corruption by using an archive format you can bundle things.
A knowledge base tab for products would be a pretty cool feature down the road though, make it kinda like a simple support forum where ppl can answer each others questions and share tips/etc. Building a community around your products is always a plus.
Great to see the categories can now get an image and you can show subcategories on a page. This is actually a big help for the design I had in mind.
They don’t show up though if there is only another subcategory under that and no products in that category as well.
I’ve made a post on the support forum explaining this in more detail, thought I’d mention it here too for the benefit of others http://woocommerce.com/support-forum/?viewtopic=56929
Exciting. Glad to see yall are cranking ahead!
I’m curious about the product image hard crop option. Since images are currently hard cropped I assume this will allow you to keep the original image aspect ration. Correct?
I hope this is the case. I will be selling art and photography and cropped images are no bueno.
Thats correct. Use in conjunction with the ‘Regenerate Thumbnails’ plugin if you’ve uploaded some images already 🙂
Mike ..thanks for the info regarding the Regenerate Thumbnails’ plugin. its exactly what i needed
I agree this plugin is awesome..
What’s the advantage of using the Mailchimp extension versus just using the standard Mailchimp plugin, aside from the nifty dashboard widget? Does it allow customers to subscribe at the time of purchasing/creating their account and hook into Mailchimp?
Yup there’s an opt in (or out, you can specify this in the admin) checkbox during the checkout process 🙂
awesome! that sounds GOOD 🙂
I tried to use mailchip.its easy but it has limitation to the adress book
awesome!!! i like MailChimp. i will try woocomerce 1.1 now..thanks woothemese so much!
Regarding the mailchimp extension. Can you place multiple signup forms on one page? One in the sidebar and one in the footer for example.
There have been issues with this previously when using mailchimp generated code and people have reverted to iframes to include more than one.
Just double checked and this seems to work fine. You will see a ‘thanks for subscribing’ message on both forms but I guess that’s not a big deal.
Great stuff guy! Would be awesome if you could include HTML markup on the product category description field. Any chance of that?
Hey Fred, try adding this for your functions.php file;
remove_filter('pre_term_description', 'wp_filter_kses');
add_filter( 'pre_term_description', 'wp_filter_post_kses' );
Cool that worked, why not implement this into the code and make it standard? It would make sense – no?
Just a heads up. I, along with others, can’t get hardcropping to work now after the plugin update.
http://woocommerce.com/support-forum/?viewtopic=57064
Maybe membership and protected content in the future?
I would love to see this added 🙂
i agree membership is a logical move…
I am a madmimi fan but mailchimp is also relaible…
Mailchimp has better templates than madmimi
I’m really liking WooCommerce so far and excited about the possibilities. Great work guys!
Does anyone have recommendations for a member management solution that would work well with WooCommerce. More specifically, something with a member database and recurring payments through PayPal? Has anyone done anything like this with WooCommerce?
are you able to add an import & export items to/from an excel spreadsheet? that would simply things greatly.
This would be a welcome feature. My site is currently in Shopify which allows an export csv of all products.
A product import and export function is an extension that I would be gladly willing to pay for. Please add my vote.
Thanks,
Melissa
I’ll add my request for product import/export via excel!
Missing CSV import/export is reason, why i dont use woocommerce yet. Very important feature for my clients.
I too would like this greatly…
I’ll add my request for product import/export via excel too!!!
Add my vote. Lack of export to excel is preventing me from using this for my website redesign.
I am also very interested in a product import feature for woocommerce. I am very happy with its design but looking for a way to upload potentially 100+ photos (each as a product) on a daily basis. Manual creation is a possibility but looking like a time consuming task. We are creating SKU’s based on the file name as well, so I just need to duplicate my original product and load the thing up. Is this possible? I would be happy to purchase an additional extension with this functionality!!
Any news or roadmap to get woocommerce multi-language full support? Its a most have feature.
Keep the good working,
its ideal for an e-shop.. thnaks
thats a very useful for an online shop…..thanks a lot..
Are you planning a integration with Woo Commerce and the Listings Theme if, so what is your time frame? This would easily put you ahead of the other directory theme competition. Thanks for you work and your themes!
The Regenerate Thumbnails plugin will boost my sales… without exra cost.. thanks a lot…