I like the new approach. Still remember my shock when first seeing the interface, how much effort it took to learn the variations and attributes. And you're completely right about the cons, they can make it much smoother and easier.
Thanks for bringing that, is 2024 - definitely Woocommerce stores need some better Workflow and more design options of course. The new editor is 1 year in beta! This kinda sucks to be honest.
I like new approach, like you said variation is much simpler, also it would be great to open modal type of window to edit price, size, color etc.... Great improvement!
The new aproach is innecesary, the nly thing you need in a Ecommerce plataform is BULK UPDATES, when you nail that, you can make it look nice or mess with the gutenberg whatever. More than 15 years, and you cannot change prices in a easy way, you need to relay to a 3er party plug-in (i know there's free very good options) but... You made a Ecommerce product, and you have to revisit every single one of the product to change a price? Its maddness. What happend with a hardware store, or a lumber store, or a Candle store, when you have more than 3 products, you NEED that option, specially in a country like mine (argentina) with 5% monthly inflation
Great video and clear explanation as usual :-) One thing I would like to point out though with the variations is that making so many permutations per product will really eat up resources on a shared or slower server. I've been running woo since 2014 and on one store with custom hand made items for a few years. On that I usually add variations manually, with set colours, set shape and options for size and settings, so even though I have a huge amount of options per product I usually only have a few variations in WooCommerce if I am communicating what I mean clearly? ie each product is available made up in a choice of 2 colours, 3 shapes, 7 sizes, 2 to 4 metal setting choices and a gazillion different colours. The shapes and metal settings are what differentiate the prices so for the metal and the colour option I leave it set to "any" I can't imagine how long it would take to populate it automatically with all possible permutations in my case, or if the server could cope with it. This is obviously only any good if stock control isn't important, though. I strongly agree with what others have said that I would much rather prefer that they work making it faster to bulk edit pricing on products, I know you can do it from the backend products page but I don't think this applies to variable items. I've also used a code snippet to enable Gutenberg for products which only applies to the main description which is a nice compromise and have a plugin that has reverted woo to the old way, I really don't like the new interface and all the constant prodding to sub to this, buy that when I just need to get on and get stuff done.
It would make sense to enter a base price for the base product. Then add additional costs to each variation type. As the buyer changes the variations, the total price is recomputed and changes immediately.
I like parts of it, but the way they are doing it will probably rule it out for most, because of Any extension plugins will be totally busted. All our extensions just don't appear on the ui, including non-woo stuff like Rank Math. I feel a half way house would have been a better transition, giving us a Gutenberg product editor, but keeping old ux elements so you can continue using plugins till they can rewrite for the new editor. I agree the tab/scroll switch would be hugely useful, and how wasteful is all that white space. I feel it's just going to be stuck on the old editor forever, because people need the extension features...
When having products that require a bit more 'layout' than the standard template and 5 lines of text, the new editor with blocks is really good. Even makes it possible to have different pages for the same product with different cart buttons to A/B test what users buy don't buy. Coming from a custom built CMS that had blocks, it's good to see that woo finally embraces blocks. (About time...)
I agree that it's great to see the ability to design the content of the product description with blocks. It adds a lot of flexibility. You could technically do this before with a bit of a hack/workaround, but native support is always a better option.
I kinda like it I have to admit, but the bulk pricing is still a little bit odd, especially with your example. It would be nice if automatic would incorporate some kind of extra fee for attributes. so set a basic price (like for small) and then for medium: 5€ extra, large: 10€ extra. which is calculated then. it's a very common scenario and we don't have to edit the price of every variation with this, escpecially when there are more attributes involved. I know, there are plugins for that, but still a nice to have feature for a better workflow
While it does a little more time to move around from our experience, I do think that this is a better user experience on the client-side-who is most likely doing the product/inventory management within Woo. Would be great if Woo invested more time in creating a bulk importing/editing workflow for sites with 1000+ SKUs. Not a huge fan of gutenberg, but I think this is a use-case that makes sense.
Blocks are nicer than all these monolithic template in the old version, I guess. Haven’t used the new approach yet, but have been regularly fighting with the old one.
You mentioned 4 extra clicks because of tabs, huh? There are 1000's of extra clicks! If you have 10 products, MAYBE this is ok. If you have 100's of products / variations / attributes, I pray for you! And it will only get EVEN SLOWER with more product data. How is it even possible that after all of these YEARS they haven't added: 1. Bulk management 2. CSV import / export (ala WP All Import) 3. Inline editing or even AJAX editing It's mind boggling that this is still the leading Wordpress e-commerce solution! There is absolutely no way possible I would use woo commerce without a real tool to not only manage the products but to enter them also. The video you showed looked like a clicking and page loading nightmare! Nope, just give me WP All Import / Export and I can do all of that and much more with just one flat CSV file.. make hundreds of edits all through out the store if need be, in 10 to 15 mins, and be done.
Looks good although variations are still not priced as I would like. I have over 1000 variation combinations and would have liked to see each attribute priced so each variation combination was automatically priced based on what the customer chooses. To have to add these prices manually is a nightmare. Yes, the new interface allows you to select individual variation combinations in one go but it will take ages to go through over 1000 combinations.
I can't see it being a viable alternative for some time as development is just too slow. It would be nice it became viable, but it's a big hill to climb.
@@WPTuts well, yeah... Depends on the needs. For very simple online stores with a few products, I'd say it's already fine. I can't stand using Woocommerce... It's so heavy. I'd rather use anything else, even SureCart.
North Commerce still a looong way to go. I'll judge the bloat and speed once it can do what Woo does. Don't get me wrong, an alternative would be great, but at this stage it's not there.
