WooCommerce - Version 3.0.0

Version Description

• 2017-04-04 =
• New gallery on single product pages with better mobile support, using PhotoSwipe and Zoom. Declare support with add_theme_support() - wc-product-gallery-zoom, wc-product-gallery-lightbox, wc-product-gallery-slider
• Made the store notice dismissible on the frontend.
• Variable products no longer show striked out prices in combination with ranges for clarity when on sale.
• Prices no longer display as 'free' instead of 0, to fix issues with ranges and localization and for consistency.
• Improved structured product data by using JSON-LD instead of inline Microdata.
• Improved downloads list layout (template file).
• Respect stock status and prevent the "out of stock threshold" setting affecting existing in-stock products.
• Improved handling of shop page rewrite rules to allow subpages.
• Redirect to login after password reset.
• When using authorizations in PayPal Standard, automatically capture funds when the order goes processing/completed.
• On multisite, when a user logs into a store with an account on a site, but not the current site, rather than error, add the user to the current site as a customer.
• Show variable weights/dimensions even when parent values are not set.
• Automatically sort tax rates rather than allow clunky manual sorting.
• When deleting a tax rate class, remove it's tax rates.
• Made WC_Logger pluggable via wc_get_logger function.
• Use 'average rating' post meta for 'rating' product sorting option.
• Show better labels in nav menus metabox.
• Sort Recently Viewed products by the view order.
• Removed internal scroll from log viewer.
• Add reply-to to admin emails.
• Improved the zone setup flow.
• Made wc_get_wildcard_postcodes return the orignal postcode plus * since wildcards should match empty strings too.
• Use all paid statuses in $customer->get_total_spent().
• Move location of billing email field to work with password managers.
• Option to restrict selling locations by country.
• Added tool to clear orphaned variations in system status.
• Remove checkbox options in system status tools and replace with constants.
• Added security section in system status report.
• Add image_url setting to PayPal Standard.
• Fixed attribute registration. Attributes are non-hierarchical by default (parent is not supported).
• Add sort parameter to checkout fields to aid with sorting per locale.
• Merged percent and percent product coupon types (they provide the same discount).
• Prevent payment details being cleared after update_checkout events.
• Performance - Converted _featured and _visibility meta data to terms for faster catalog queries. Upgrade routine handles migration. Developers may need to update queries to reflect this change.
• Includes product attributes archives links in "Additional Information" tab.
• Select2 has been upgraded to v4.
• Improved logging system for extensions.
• Tax suffix is now hidden on non-taxable products.
• Grouped products are linked from the parent rather than the children. Children can be in more than one group.
• Performance - Converted rating filters to visibility terms.
• Performance - Added visibility term for outofstock products to speed those queries up also.
• Performance - Introduced a new CRUD (create, read, update, delete) system for Products, Orders, Customers and Shipping Zones.
• Performance - Optimised variable product sync. Upper/lower price meta is no longer stored, just the main prices, if a child has weight, and if a child has dimensions.
• Performance - Removed WP_Query from up-sells.php and related.php and replaced with PHP foreach loop (since we already have the product IDs).
• Performance - Removed the feature where old orders get access to new downloads on product edit. Looping potentially thousands of orders to do this is too much of a performance burden for stores and this can sometimes be unexpected behavior too. This does however updates edited downloads.
• Performance - Removed 'items' column on orders screen due to loading excessive data.
• Performance - Deferred email sending for faster checkouts. Now uses CRON.
• API - New Rest API v2 with support for meta_data amongst other things.
• API - Removed last order from customers part of the API due to performance concerns - use orders endpoint instead. Other order data on the endpoint is now transient cached.
• API - Allow oAuth1.0a authentication using headers.
• API - New Shipping Zones endpoints.
• API - New variations endpoints.
• API - New settings endpoints.
• API - Payment gateways and shipping methods endpoints.
• API - Prevented the (broken) ability to manipulate variations directly on the products endpoints.
• CLI - New CLI which uses the REST API endpoints rather than it's own functions.
• Localization - Improved RTL support.
• Localization - Added a language independent permalink setting function.
• Localization - Added inline comments for placeholder strings.
• Localization - Added Nigerian and Pakistan Provinces to i18n/state.
• Localization - US and Poland postcode validation.
• To read more about this release, see our dev blog announcement here: http://wp.me/p6wtcw-Uo

See changelog for all versions.

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