WooCommerce 3.0 was released last Tuesday (April 4, 2017).
The new version comes with new features, enhancements, and other useful things.
Originally, version 2.7 be released, but has finally decided to call it version 3.0. This shows how important this update is.
For you as a user are WooCommerce not perceive many changes. However much changed Technically there. So always make a backup before you apply the update and test everything in advance on a test site.
Are you curious about what's new in version 3.0 WooCommerce? Let's begin soon.
New product gallery
The biggest improvement that users see in WooCommerce 3.0 has to be the new product gallery. In the video below you can see the demo.
The gallery is as you see some adjustments. Visitors can magnify the image and zoom. When clicking on a small image (thumbnail), then switch the main image instead of the other image opens in a lightbox. It works by these adjustments are all slightly better and finer.
For mobile users, the gallery has become a lot better. So you can swipe through the gallery, you can zoom by pinching and swipe up you close the image.
performance improvements
What you as a user can also regarded WooCommerce version 3.0 is that it works quickly and efficiently. This update has actually like almost always several performance improvements. Especially big web shops will publish the best brands.
So include the number of requests to be made in this release to load become less upsells and related products. In addition, are now used to determine the taxonomies to product visibility, featured products and sold out. Previously, this was done in a slower manner, namely by post meta.
Testing developers saw a rate increase of about 94%. Definitely nice if you ask me.
CRUD Classes
Most of the changes and improvements in this update are not visible. CRUD Classes are also included. The Classes CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) are for orders, products, customers, shipping zones, discount codes and payment tokens.
The classes provide simply put a better structure and validation of all the above date, so the margin of error is less. It gives developers a unified way to deal with the database.
Improved logging system
Furthermore, in WooCommerce 3.0, a new form to keep track of things (logging). The new log system now has options to make it easier to change certain behavior of the logger without having to replace something there.
Log messages now contain multiple levels as debug, emergency, critical, warning or notice. These messages can also be put in the database, which you can view via the WordPress admin section.
Not very interesting as users, but developers can overtake easier problems this way.
Were all these improvements?
No, we have still not seen it all, but I do not want too much voorschotelen technical details. So you can manage more data faster with the new CLI (Command Line Interface).
Furthermore, tax rates automatically sorted, making it easier to add and manage new tax zones. WordPress Multisite existing users added to the shop if the user already has an account somewhere else in the same network.
So far in brief what improvements have not all been implemented in WooCommerce 3.0.