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WooCommerce 3.1 is coming – The Aelia plugins are ready

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The WooCommerce team recently released WooCommerce 3.1 Release Candidate 1. As they wrote, this means that they should be ready to release the final 3.1 version very soon. The planned release date for WooCommerce 3.1 is the 28th June 2017.

What you should do before updating WooCommerce

If you are running WooCommerce 3.0.x, then you should be able to upgrade it to version 3.1 quite easily. Version 3.1 is a minor update, which should be fully backward compatible.

If you are still running WooCommerce 2.6, or even if you just like to “play safe” (which never hurts), you can follow the step by step guide we sent some time ago via our newsletter. The guide describes our recommended way of upgrading WooCommerce. You can find the guide below, for your convenience.

The core idea behind this guide is not to update your live site directly, but test the upgrade on a staging copy of the site first. Here are a few simple steps that will help you with the task:

  1. Take a full backup of the live site.
    Tip: if you don’t have a strategy for automated backups, we would strongly recommend to prepare one as soon as possible. Please feel free to contact us if you need more information.
  2. Ensure that the backup is usable and ready to be restored in case of emergency.
  3. Create a copy of your site on a staging/test server. Work only on the test copy.
  4. Update all the plugins, except WooCommerce, to the latest versions.
    Note: some updates might not appear in the WordPress Plugins page. You can always get the latest versions of the Aelia plugins from the My Account section on our site.
  5. Update your theme to the latest version.
  6. Update WooCommerce.
  7. Test the site extensively, to ensure that all the plugins you are running, as well as your theme, are compatible with WooCommerce 3.1.
  8. If you spot any issue, contact the authors of the affected plugin or theme before updating the live site.
  9. Apply any fix provided by plugin authors and repeat the testing from step #7.

When you are comfortable that the test site is working correctly, you can repeat the above steps on the live site.

Compatibility status of the Aelia plugins

Based on the tests we conducted so far, all of our plugins are currently compatible with WooCommerce 3.1.x. We will keep testing them as updates for the new version are released, to ensure maximum compatibility.

Of course, should you encounter any issue, please report it, and we will look into it as soon as possible.

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If you don’t receive an update notification in your WordPress Admin Panel about the Aelia plugins, we recommend you to follow our our site, our Twitter account or our Facebook page, as we will announce the new releases there. You will then be able to download them from our site, or from the download link you received with your email.

Need assistance, or have any questions?

Should you need assistance, or have any questions about our plugins and how to update them before installing WooCommerce 3.1, please get in touch. We will get back to you as soon as possible, with the information you need.

Thanks for your time, and have a great weekend!

Sincerely,

Aelia – The Internationalisation Experts

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WooCommerce Product Table and Password Protection plugins now support Currency Switcher and Prices by Country

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Barn2 Media’s WooCommerce plugins now include multi-currency support

The Barn2 Media team just informed us that their WooCommerce extensions now include native support for our popular Currency Switcher and Prices by Country plugins. This means that you can benefit from the internationalisation features provided by our solutions when creating interactive pricing tables, or adding password protected areas to your site.

Would you like to know what this means for your shop? Here we go!

WooCommerce Product Table

List products in table format, in your customers’ currency and local price

WooCommerce Product Table is Barn2 Media’s bestselling plugin. It lists WooCommerce products in a sortable, searchable table view, which can also be filtered.

Product tables are useful for WooCommerce wholesale stores and bulk order forms, as well as large catalogues. They list products in a structured table layout, with more information displayed per page than the standard product pages show. The list includes details such as attributes, variations and custom fields. Customers can also purchase the products directly from the list page, which acts as a one-page order form.

If you’re using WooCommerce Product Table with our Currency Switcher or Prices by Country plugins, then the lists will automatically display the correct price for each customer, in their currency, and visitors can buy them with one click. This creates a seamless experience for your customers, which can greatly increase your conversions.

WooCommerce Password Protected Categories and Private Store

Create hidden areas within WooCommerce

Barn2 Media developed two plugins to protect or hide content within your WooCommerce shop. WooCommerce Password Protected Categories creates hidden areas which work alongside the public parts of your store. WooCommerce Private Store creates a completely hidden store – no one who visits your website will even know that you have an online shop!

As you probably guessed, these plugins are a useful addition to shops that handle wholesale customers, allowing to show some, or all products, only to customers who have specific accounts. Like the Product Tables, these plugins work beautifully with both Currency Switcher and Prices by Country. The correct currency and local price for each customer is displayed automatically on both the public and private areas of your WooCommerce store.

Acknowledgements

We’d like to thank the team at Barn2 Media for listening to the ever-increasing number of merchants who rely on our internationalisation solutions, and for their efforts in adding multi-currency support to their WooCommerce extensions.

Thanks for reading, and see you soon for more exciting news!

 

The Aelia Team

WooCommerce Prices by Country – Fixes for WooCommerce 3.0.5

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WooCommerce Prices by Country – What’s new

The Prices by Country plugin for WooCommerce has been updated to version 1.7.13.170505. This update brings the following improvements and fixes:

  • Improved performance in Edit Product page, when modifying variable products.
  • Handled edge condition that could prevent the Variations tab from loading in the Edit Product page.
  • Fixed notice due to a direct call to a product ID property.

How to get latest version

New customers

Simply place your order and you will get the latest version.

Existing customers

You should be able to download the updated file using the link you received with your order. If the link doesn’t work, please contact Support to receive the latest version. Thanks.

WooCommerce Currency Switcher – Fixes for WooCommerce 3.0.4

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WooCommerce Currency Switcher – What’s new

Currency Switcher for WooCommerce has been updated to version 4.4.16.170424. This update brings the following improvements and fixes:

  • Improved performance of reports and dashboard. The dashboard now loads up to three times faster!
  • Fixed handling of coupons. Coupon values are now converted correctly in WooCommerce 3.0.4.
  • Fixed issue of stale data displayed in the mini-cart. Added logic to refresh the mini-cart when the currency is selected via the URL.
  • Added logic to ensure that orders created manually, from WordPress Admin area, keep the correct currency.
  • Improved handling of exchange rates
    • Fixed bug in logic used to retrieve exchange rates. When the configured exchange rate provider could not be determined, the original logic tried to load an invalid class.
    • Set default provider to Yahoo! Finance, to replace the unreliable WebServiceX.

How to get latest version

New customers

Simply place your order and you will get the latest version.

Existing customers

You should be able to download the updated file using the link you received with your order. If the link doesn’t work, please contact Support to receive the latest version. Thanks.

WooCommerce Currency Switcher – Re-release of version 4.4.12.170407

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We re-released WooCommerce Currency Switcher 4.4.2.170407

Yesterday we released a hotfix for the Currency Switcher for WooCommerce, to address the glitches suddenly introduced by WooCommerce 3.0.1. The plugin we released contained a small glitch that prevented sale prices from being displayed and processed correctly on the frontend. We fixed the glitch as soon as we found it, but it might be possible that you had already downloaded the update at the time we re-released the plugin.

If you are experiencing an issue related to products’ sale price, we would recommend that you download the Currency Switcher again. The latest version is still 4.4.2.170407, but the plugin now contains a fix for the glitch with the sale prices.

How to get latest version

New customers

Simply place your order and you will get the latest version.

Existing customers

You should be able to download the updated file using the link you received with your order. If the link doesn’t work, please contact Support to receive the latest version. Thanks.

WooCommerce Prices by Country – Fixes for WooCommerce 3.0.1

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WooCommerce Prices by Country – What’s new

The Prices by Country plugin for WooCommerce has been updated to version 1.7.11.170407. This update brings the following improvements and fixes:

  • Fixed issue caused by the new WC_DateTime dates. WooCommerce 3.0.1 introduced class WC_DateTime to handle dates, instead of “raw” timestamps. This update can detect when such new class is used and handles the dates correctly.

How to get latest version

New customers

Simply place your order and you will get the latest version.

Existing customers

You should be able to download the updated file using the link you received with your order. If the link doesn’t work, please contact Support to receive the latest version. Thanks.