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WooCommerce 6.6.1 Fix Release

June 21, 2022 by 7th Circle Designs Leave a Comment

WooCommerce 6.6.1 is available for download. It introduces a few fixes for issues that were introduced in the 6.6.0 release.

What’s New?

  • WooCommerce 6.6.0 introduced sanitization for payment gateway titles. This could cause a problem if you had a payment gateway that didn’t properly set a title. We’ve fixed the issue introduced in 6.6.0 with gateways that don’t set a title. [#33434]
  • We’ve fixed an issue with WooCommerce 6.6.0 with searching for products when WordPress 5.8 was also installed. [#6590]
  • We’ve resolved an issue with Blocks that was causing some product images to not render because the “Product image is visible” option wasn’t being interpreted correctly. [#6599]

You can download the latest release of WooCommerce here or visit Dashboard → Updates to update the plugin from your WordPress admin screen.

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WooCommerce 6.6 Released

June 15, 2022 by 7th Circle Designs Leave a Comment

We are pleased to announce the release of WooCommerce 6.6. This release should be backwards compatible with the previous version.

This release contains:

  • 904 commits from 51 contributors in WooCommerce Core
  • 97 commits from 21 contributors in WooCommerce Blocks

As always, we recommend creating a backup of your site and making sure that your theme and any other plugins are compatible before updating. You can check out this update guide for more information.

What’s new in 6.6?

  • Added a new TikTok Marketing Extension. #32778
  • WooCommerce Blocks updated to version 7.6.0. See the release posts for 7.5.0 and 7.6.0 for included changes.
  • Updates to bump the tested WordPress version to 6.0 and the minimum version to 5.8, per our WordPress support policy.

These are just some of the changes that are included in WooCommerce 6.6. You can find the complete changelog for this release in the changelog.txt file.

Actions and Filters

This release adds 1 new action.

ActionDescription
before_woocommerce_pay_formTriggered right before the Pay for Order form, after validation of the order and customer.

And 1 new filter.

FilterDescription
woocommerce_orders_cot_and_posts_sync_step_sizeFilter to customize the count of orders that will be synchronized in each step of the custom orders table to/from posts table synchronization process.

Database Changes

There are no database changes in this release.

Template Changes

There are no template changes in this release.

Deprecations

There are no deprecations in this release.

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WordPress 6.0 “Arturo”

May 24, 2022 by 7th Circle Designs Leave a Comment

WordPress 6.0 Arturo

Welcome to “Arturo”

Say hello to “Arturo” and WordPress 6.0, inspired by Grammy-winning jazz musician, Arturo O’Farrill. Known for his influence on contemporary Latin jazz, Arturo has pressed more than 15 albums spanning a body of work across five decades. 

Take some time to explore WordPress 6.0, built to help you unlock your creative aspirations and make your site-building experience more intuitive. And check out some of Arturo’s inspirational sounds that span Afro Cuban jazz, contemporary Latin jazz, and so much more.

With nearly 1,000 enhancements and bug fixes, the second major release of 2022 is here. Download it now! As of today, WordPress powers more than 42% of websites worldwide.

Site owners and administrators should upgrade to take full advantage of the many stability, performance, and usability enhancements today. WordPress content creators will enjoy a suite of new features geared toward improving the writing and designing experiences.

Expanding Gutenberg into a full site editing experience in WordPress means that all of the problems the community had to address were complex and far-reaching. WordPress 6.0 is an example of the community’s commitment to tackling these tough challenges together. With thoughtful updates to the writing experience, building better block functionality, and adding a new intuitive style switcher, I’m really proud of the work that’s been done in this release to make a great site editing experience.

Josepha Haden Chomphosy, Executive Director

Download WordPress 6.0

What’s Inside

Selecting multiple lines of text from two blocks

Enhanced Writing Experience

Writing improvements abound, whether you’re writing a brand new post or adding elements to an existing page. Explore more ways to streamline your content creation process, including:

  • Select text across multiple blocks for easier copying and pasting.
  • Type two open brackets `[[` to quickly access a list of recent posts and pages.
  • Keep existing styles when you transform some blocks from one kind to another—from a Paragraph block to a Code block, for instance.
  • Create customized buttons and any new buttons you make will retain the style customizations automatically.
  • Make tag clouds and social icons even more appealing with updated settings and controls, and a new outline style for the tag cloud.
Style variations of Twenty Twenty Two theme

Style Switching 

Block themes now include the option to contain multiple style variations. This expands the new Style system even further and enables shortcuts to switch the look and feel of your site all within a single theme. In block themes that support this feature, you can change both the available settings, like the font-weight, and the style options, like the default color palette. Change the look and feel of your site with just a few clicks.

Popover listing available templates

More Template Choices

WordPress 6.0 includes five new template options for block themes: author, date, categories, tag, and taxonomy. These additional templates provide greater flexibility for content creators. Tailor each with the tools you already know or with the following new options in this release: 

  • Featured images can be used in the cover block.
  • New featured image sizing controls make it easier to get the results you want.
  • While editing a template, at the root, or between blocks, the quick inserter shows you patterns and template parts to help you work faster and discover new layout options.
  • The query block supports filtering on multiple authors, support for custom taxonomies, and support for customizing what is shown when there are no results.
Browsing footer patterns in the quick inserter

Integrated Patterns

Patterns will now appear when you need them in even more places, like in the quick inserter or when creating a new header or footer. If you’re a block theme author, you can even register patterns from the Pattern Directory using `theme.json`, enabling you to prioritize specific patterns that are most helpful to your theme’s users.

Additional Design Tools

Design tools grow more powerful and intuitive with each release. Some highlights for 6.0 include: 

  • A new color panel design saves space, but still shows your options at a glance. 
  • New border controls offer a simpler way to set your border exactly as you like it. 
  • Transparency levels for your colors allow for even more creative color options.
  • Control gaps, margins, typography, and more on a collection of blocks, all at once, in the Group block.
  • Switch between stack, row, and group variations to position groups of blocks with more layout flexibility.
  • Use the gap support functionality in the Gallery block to create different looks – from adding spacing between all images, to removing spacing altogether.
Selecting multiple blocks in the list view

Better List View

New keyboard shortcuts enable you to select multiple blocks from the list view, modify them in bulk, and drag and drop them within the list. List View can be opened and closed easily; it comes collapsed by default and it automatically expands to the current selection whenever you select a block. 

Unlocking the block in the block toolbar

Block Locking Controls

Now you can lock your blocks. Choose to disable the option to move a block, remove a block, or both. This simplifies project handover, allowing your clients to unleash their creativity without worrying about accidentally breaking their site in the process.

Improved Performance in WordPress 6.0

This release includes several updates focused on improving the performance of WordPress. These enhancements cover a range of performance areas including improving the page and post-load speed, reducing the execution time of various query types, caching, navigation menus, and much more. The performance team working group is an important focus area of the core development team. For more information on this group’s work, please follow their work on Making WordPress with the #performance hashtag.

Enhancing WordPress 6.0 Accessibility

Accessibility is an integral part of the WordPress mission of fostering an inclusive community and supporting users of all types around the world. With this in mind, WordPress 6.0 includes more than 50 updates specifically focused on enhancing the accessibility of the platform. You can read about these updates and learn more about the accessibility initiatives that are ongoing.

Learn More About WordPress 6.0

See WordPress 6.0 in action! Watch a brief overview video highlighting some of the major features debuting in WordPress 6.0.

Explore learn.wordpress.org for quick how-to videos and lots more on new features in WordPress. Or join a live interactive online learning session on a specific WordPress topic.

Developers can explore the WordPress 6.0 Field Guide. It is overflowing with detailed developer notes to help you build with and extend WordPress.

Read the WordPress 6.0 Release Notes for more information on the included enhancements and issues fixed, installation information, developer notes and resources, release contributors, and the list of file changes in this release.

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WooCommerce 6.5.1 Fix Release

May 12, 2022 by 7th Circle Designs Leave a Comment

WooCommerce 6.5.1 is available for download.

What’s new?

  • Approved Download Directories: Specify a maximum index size for the URL column in the Download Directories table. This fixes the missing database tables issue. [#32968]
  • WooCommerce Admin: Fix issue where FeaturePlugin class caused a conflict with older WooCommerce Admin versions. This fixes the fatal error seen in certain cases. [#32966]

You can download the latest release of WooCommerce here or visit Dashboard → Updates to update the plugin from your WordPress admin screen.

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WooCommerce 6.5 Released

May 10, 2022 by 7th Circle Designs Leave a Comment

We are pleased to announce the release of WooCommerce 6.5. This release should be backwards compatible with the previous version.

As always, we recommend creating a backup of your site and making sure that your theme and any other plugins are compatible before updating. You can check out this update guide for more information.

What’s new in 6.5?

  • WooCommerce Blocks: We’ve updated to the 7.4.3 version of the feature plugin. See the release posts for 7.4.3 to see what’s new.
  • WooCommerce Admin: WC Admin is now merged into WooCommerce core!
  • Approved Download Directories: To give site owners additional control over product downloads. Check here for more details.

These are just some of the changes that are included in WooCommerce 6.5. You can find the complete changelog for this release in the changelog.txt file.

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WooCommerce 6.4.1 Fix Release

April 15, 2022 by 7th Circle Designs Leave a Comment

WooCommerce 6.4.1 is available for download. This release rolls back a change to WooCommerce menu item sorting. It also updates WooCommerce Blocks to 7.2.2 to resolve an error when loading certain assets.

What’s new?

  • Reverted #31779. The initial change was in response to a WordPress Core change that never made it to production. (#32623)
  • Updated WooCommerce Blocks to 7.2.2. (#32641)

You can download the latest release of WooCommerce here or visit Dashboard → Updates to update the plugin from your WordPress admin screen.

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WooCommerce 6.4 Released

April 12, 2022 by 7th Circle Designs Leave a Comment

We are pleased to announce the release of WooCommerce 6.4. This release should be backwards compatible with the previous version.

This release contains:

  • 277 commits from 37 contributors in WooCommerce Core
  • 110 commits from 15 contributors in WooCommerce Admin
  • 191 commits from 21 contributors in WooCommerce Blocks

As always, we recommend creating a backup of your site and making sure that your theme and any other plugins are compatible before updating. You can check out this update guide for more information.

What’s new in 6.4?

  • WooCommerce Blocks: We’ve updated to the 7.2.1 version of the feature plugin. See the release posts for 7.1.0 and 7.0.0 to see what’s new.
  • WooCommerce Admin: We’ve updated to the 3.3.2 version of the feature plugin. See the changelog to find out what’s new.
  • With many of the preliminary decisions made, we’ve started working towards an implementation of custom tables for orders!

These are just some of the changes that are included in WooCommerce 6.4. You can find the complete changelog for this release in the changelog.txt file.

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WordPress 5.9.3 Maintenance Release

April 5, 2022 by 7th Circle Designs Leave a Comment

WordPress 5.9.3 is now available!

This maintenance release features 9 bug fixes in Core and 10 bug fixes in the block editor.

WordPress 5.9.3 is a short-cycle maintenance release. The next major release will be version 6.0.

You can download WordPress 5.9.3 from WordPress.org, or visit your Dashboard → Updates and click “Update Now”.

If you have sites that support automatic background updates, they’ve already started the update process.

For more information, browse the full list of both Trac and GitHub changes in the release candidate post, or check out the changelog of version 5.9.3 on HelpHub.

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