{"id":492,"date":"2017-04-06T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fastcomet.com\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2022-06-10T06:43:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T06:43:55","slug":"woocommerce-3-0-bionic-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastcomet.com\/blog\/woocommerce-3-0-bionic-butterfly","title":{"rendered":"WooCommerce 3.0 Bionic Butterfly is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WooCommerce<\/a> 3.0 \u201cBionic Butterfly\u201d was just released with significant improvements to the product gallery and developer tools. It\u2019s hard to believe it\u2019s been so long since the last major WooCommerce release when plugin switched to semantic versioning, but sometimes good things are worth waiting for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

But Why This Release is 3.0 Instead of 2.7?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, the release was originally planned to be numbered as 2.7, and released in mid-March. However, after more than three months in the process of beta testing a critical bug in the way the system handled timestamps was discovered and pushed back to a new release system. Moving forward, WooCommerce releases will use Semantic Versioning, which dictates that major releases – those with API changes or the potential to affect extension compatibility, like this one – will receive a new major version number (ex. 4.0, 5.0). Minor releases and patches, on the other hand, will receive point versions (ex. 3.1, 3.2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introducing CRUD classes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update, Delete \u2014 the four basic operations you can do to a resource. With the CRUD classes added to WooCommerce 3.0, developers can now easily modify orders, products, customers, line items, shipping zones, payment tokens, and coupons with less code across a unified system. For more info on the CRUD classes in WooCommerce and how to use them, read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Show off Your Product Images in the Overhauled Gallery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u0420evamping the gallery experience on individual product pages was discussed since the time of the 2.6 release last year. After taking a poll and doing some internal testing, WooCommerce came up with a new gallery that has more has subtle improvements for galleries with multiple images. Galleries in 3.0 are also far more mobile-friendly and more intuitive than the previous iteration on mobile. Now visitors can both magnify and zoom images, touch gestures have been greatly improved including swipe to scroll through the gallery, pinch to zoom, and swipe up to close the current image and the mobile lightbox now displays the image\u2019s true size. These and several bug fixes and improvements deliver a much smoother experience of viewing product images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n