WooCommerce 2.5 New features

Wordpress Meetup Tokyo Feb 1Shohei Tanaka from Artisan Workshop

My profileName: Shohei Tanaka

Place of Birth: Fukuoka

From: Akashi, Hyogo Japan

WordPress Plugins Translator and Plugin developer.

E-Commerce marketer.

WooCommerce Japanese translator and editor

What is WooCommerce?

One of the most popular WordPress E-Commerce Plugin.

One of the most popular E-Commerce System.

One of the most extension plugins for it in WordPress.

One of the most filters and action hooks be had it.

WooCommerce Main FeaturesProduct(Single, Variations, Download, Virtual)

Account control(Billing Address and Shipping Address)

Coupon

Tax, Payment Method, Shipping Method

WooCommerce REST API

WooCommerce Style?

Additional features by the extension plugins.

Main System is more strong and safe, useful.

New features 1 WooCommerce CLI

The WooCommerce CLI (command line interface) lets you perform many actions on your store via the command line, such as creating customers and coupons. This should be very useful for power users!

Explain of WooCommerce CLI

New features 2 A new

sessions table

User’s order session is an important thing for e-Commerce.

This worked well, and has served us nicely until now, however it did lead to problems with scalability and data cleanup.

Explain detail of a new session by Mike Jolley

New features 3 Improved checkout

flowMoved the terms and conditions box before the place order button

Tweaked default call to action button styles

Added error recovery when malformed JSON is returned by the ajax methods.

Removed the ‘estimated’ text from the cart totals area.

Made it so when only 1 gateway is enabled, the radio buttons will be hidden.

Added password strength indicators when creating an account.

New features 4 Performance improvements &

Tax rate settings UI

We made a number of performance improvements in 2.5, mainly working on optimising our usage of transients which we covered in our beta 2 post.

2.5 we’ve used backbonejs to improve the tax rate input screens, which now saves via ajax and has a new inline search.

New features 5 some REST API

improvements for developers using

Added /products/shipping_classes endpoint.

Added support to POST, PUT, and DELETE categories and tags.

Added support to filter products by tag, category, shipping class, and attribute.

Added tax and tax_class endpoints.

Everything else…

Template Changes

Moved emails in the email settings to a table to keep things organised.

wp.template usage for variations which now allows developers to change the layout of single variations.

Removed the welcome screen.

For coupons with category restrictions, respect the category hierarchy.

A new wc_array_cartesian function to generate variations in a logical order.

Extra How to make themes

for WooCommerce

• Basically same as WordPress Theme.

• Copy WooCommerce plugins "template" folder to as “woocommerce" in themes folder.(like a child themes)

• Declare WooCommerce supportnon-WC theme compatibility

– Shohei Tanaka

“Thank you for listening my poor English.”