Steve Truman

Hi Carl – Interesting that you appear to be pointing the finger at 3rd party developers for the epic WC 3.0.0 release breaking live stores –
WC 3.0.1 – out 2 days after 3.0 released – 43 Bug Fixes

I see even plugins that where updated for WC 3.0 before WC 3.0.0 release are having to push upgrades with Patches – eg. WooCommerce Subscriptions http://dzv365zjfbd8v.cloudfront.net/changelogs/woocommerce-subscriptions/changelog.txt – 2 releases with 9 bug fixes the day after release and store owners still losing all subscriptions products https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscriptions-not-working-after-update-3-0/#post-9003680

WooCommerce was notorious for breaking tens of thousands of stores with each major version upgrade when WooThemes owned it – had hoped under the ownership of Automattic that would change – but no.

What I’ve always argued is that WooCommerce should as far as possible never do this – you are actually playing with peoples livelihoods here – these are not blogs, they are live stores owned by businesses. But still they continue to do so –

I wonder if Automattic has thought about the possibility of WC store owners filing a class action for loss of income due to something like the release of WC 3.0.0 that breaks every dependent plugin and theme?

Lets see – 100,000 store owners (not developers – the actual business owners) lose US$1,000 in sales due to 3.0.0 breaking their store – Class action = US$100 million – scary

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