WooCommerce

If you’ve built a plugin for WooCommerce before you may have come across the ‘message’ functionality which let you add messages (or errors) to the frontend using: $woocommerce->add_message( ‘Hi there’ ) $woocommerce->add_error( ‘You bafoon’ ); Part of the development of WooCommerce 2.1 was refactoring the main WooCommerce class which involved moving out unrelated methods (such…

WooCommerce 2.1 has a new dashboard widget which replaces the previous version’s “Right now”, sales, and recent order widgets. Some users will like this change, others may ‘miss’ the old widgets. In this post I’ll explain the reasoning behind the changes.

I was asked about WooCommerce’s session handling at WCEU (where I seized up; darn social phobia) so I thought it would be good to give a brief history of our handling of sessions, and how things are changing in 2.1. Cart sessions have been a long standing source of frustration in WooCommerce. To clarify, the…

Back in January we had several shipping methods for WooCommerce for getting quotes from APIs such as UPS, USPS and FedEx. Because these APIs expected ‘packages’ to quote on, it was necessary for items to be ‘packed’ into packages with a weight and dimensions. The original extensions attempted to pack items by attempting to stack…

Sometimes code needs to change; without doing so you can end up with a non-consistent, bloated mess. When changing things such as functions and hooks however, you do have to consider backwards compatibility so that code which relies on the old things doesn’t just stop breaking without explanation. In WooCommerce major releases we often have…

WooCommerce 2.1 includes a standardised credit card form which payment gateway plugins can now utilise for a consistent UI. Using the jQuery Payment script (built by Stripe) inputs are formatted as you type which also helps prevent user error.