tl; Dr:
We are building a service to the woocommerce The method, this method uses the hosting components to simplify the process and create a better experience.
If you want to participate in the test, please join us immediately.
If you want to learn more, please continue to read or view our posts on the developer’s blog.
A few weeks ago at Wooconf, Matt Mullenweg peeked at a project we have been working excitedly. Now, we are ready to share it with the world.
Woocommerce Connect
is an important part of our future vision of WooCommerce. Now, Connect has just started Alpha test as a function expansion . If everything goes well, we hope to use it as part of the core of the Wooocommerce for everyone to use.
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Vision: The simpler way to directly connect anything in Woocommerce
Most of the features of the Woocommerce lies in the custom and add any content ability.
However, all these forces are accompanied by huge responsibilities: do basic things as simple as possible. Unfortunately, now, doing some basic things, such as adding transportation options, may be a bit complicated.
For example, the following is the current way of adding USPS:
Decompired it:
file. This contains the code you want to add to the site.
Add API key from USPS. This tells us who you are and what information you get from them.
- Add our subscription key. This will tell us which subscription link to your website, so that if you have valid subscriptions,We can pass the update to you.
In -depth understanding of the settings.
Using Connect, we eliminated step 1 to 3 -no additional extension, no API key and subscription key.
You can directly view the available function in Woocommerce instead Install the expansion program on the website. Use Connect, Adding a new option means .
We also eliminated the need to manually add the API key. Because the connection exists on one end, these keys are in place. At present,
The services and plans provided in Connect are free
, which is why you do not need to subscribe to the key. When we add a service that really needs to be subscribed, we aims to provide you with a way to connect your store to your WOOTHEMES account, rather than a key to connect to a specific subscription. 
This means that the USPS is set by Connect:
Settings will not be ends by the option, so we have updated the connect through Connect Provided settings to make them more user -friendly:
Behind the scenes: The hosting service and Jetpack make it all the reality In order to achieve all this, most of the code you must in the past are now located on the security server we hosted. We are using Jetpack to communicate with the server safely. There are other benefits in our custody code:
When dealing with these new features, you depend on the site host less,
to make it more It is easy to have a fast site
.
Providing new features only means changing on our server, so you
do not need to update the core of the WooCommerce to obtain new features
.
- Because you don’t have to update the code on the site frequently, you should see
- more stable performance .
- Your connection service is more likely to have the correct configuration to work .
- Of course, expansion is still the key part of Woocommerce. We are still committed to our modular method -a solid and flexible core product, which adds the functions you need by expansion -and provide more freedom for store owners and developers rather than less freedom.
You rely less to rely on the configuration of the host, which means
This means that expansion will always be your choice.
We believe that Connect is a simpler choice and plans to invest to make it better. But this is a substitute, not a substitute. Status: Foundation, a service start So far, we have established the foundation and added our first service: USPS. We chose this service because the United States is one of our biggest markets. is a brief remembrance, we start with a service, with the theme of Connect. Before continuing, we want to learn lessons from building an option, but we plan to add more transportation options next.
The alpha version of Connect supports real -time USPS freight in American stores . There are some differences between the content provided by Connect and our USPS extension, so be sure to read these contents.
In addition, because Connect is currently a \”functional expansion\”, you must now use it as a separate alone Extension and installation. Once it becomes a function of the core of WOOCOMMERCE, all these will become the past for Connect.
Future: Test version and later
When you conduct Alpha test, we are already actively conducting BETA tests, including: Canadian postal support [123 ] The UI improvement of the freight part of the shipping fee part with the wooocommerce entrusted wizard
Set the capacity of the shipping box
The self -service page containing the system status information
More with the overall appearance of Connect
- , so anyone who runs the Woocommerce store can easily connect the services they want to their stores.
The magnificent plan is to eventually ConnectLaunched to the core version of Woocommerce in the future
Participate in: Help us test
We have started the Alpha test stage, we have started, we have started the alpha test stage, we have started,I hope you can help us build the future of Woocommerce.Fill in the table below to start using. [WTSFC Heading \u003d \”Add us to create the future of WooCommerce.The test phase.
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We are glad to see how users respond to Connect and continue to improve it.In the end, we hope that this method will make anyone open more easily.