seanvdmn

The problem is with the ecosystem. WP Org and Woo need to raise the bar and expectation with 3rd party developers. So many features, especially around security but even basic functionality is left to the ecosystem. With the latest 9.x releases a plugin purchased through woo.com had been abandoned by the dev, but is still somehow available for sale on the site and it literally stopped working w 9.x… Who at Woo is paying attention to these things? Then the UPS live rate plugin wasn’t updated to support UPS oath, even though they said it would still work, so I had to find a replacement with that.

These resent updates I had to throw out 2 plugins and replace them with 5 replacements to get the same functionality incurring all new costs. Then everyone is turning the admin page into their own personal billboard and upsell tool, taking up menu space for even the smallest of solutions just to get attention and an advert in your face. I feel like the use case for WP and Woo is completely lost.

If I look at the pain around the slow painful switch to Gutenberg and blocks and developers trying to keep up and failing, Plus it’s still a clunky builder! The issues / lack of modern authentication and security being left out of core (I mean there isn’t even a thread dedicated to security on WP dev) and the breakneck speed of feature update, bug fixes the entire solution is losing its value.

I’m at the point of suggesting new clients use Shopify, because it’s less of a headache that dealing w/ WP/Woo

There really needs to be a version lock on Woo so that I can say my entire solution is valid for Woo 8.x and to avoid any auto updates beyond that until I can validate other plugins… Having to update, yet avoid updates to avoid issues and conflicts, but need security updates is an absolute mess.

Need to follow in MS footsteps and separate security, maintenance and patches from feature updates and support legacy versions to give plugin developers and devs the time to test new major versions before deploying.