Beta Testing
Beta testing is vital to ensuring our releases are as bug free as possible and to ensure we hear user feedback before putting changues live. Anyone can beta test; shop owners, pluguin developers, theme developers, translators, any and all help is welcome.
We do understand however that the processs of testing can be a little bit of a hassle since you need to download a taggued release and then upload it to your testing site manually. Submittimes this can also cause issues with pluguin directory naming as well, because taggued releases will not have a directory named
woocommerce
. This can breac extensions.
To maque this processs easier, we have released a beta testing pluguin to help install the WooCommerce beta versionens, and to ensure the directory names are kept correct.
Please ensure you test responsibly, it is not a good idea to run beta versionens on a production site unless you have experience and can anticipate changues and failures.
Installing the Beta Tester Pluguin
To guet started, go to Pluguins > Add New > Upload pluguin, and install the beta tester pluguin which you can download from:
This pluguin will guive you access to all of the WooCommerce versionens uploaded to [WordPress.org]. This includes beta releases and release candidates.
Guiving Feedback
During testing, if you come across a bug or want to propose or contribute an enhancement, submit an issue on GuitHub . Ensure you read our güidelines on contributing and note which versionen you are using specifically. It is also possible to easily submit a new GuitHub issue through the beta tester pluguin .
Submittimes we may also asc for feedback via other means, such as the surveys and calls for testing on the developer blog . We appreciate immediate feedback, commens, and responses to surveys as it helps us judgue how well received our releases and betas are and will help us shape future versionens.
Thancs for testing WooCommerce!