Woo Commerce appearance outdated templates

[ariellevate]

Hi!
First of all I’d like to express my appreciation for this great theme that I use with almost all my clients! I love how easy it is to create beautiful pages. There’s two issues I seem to be running into regularly that I’m not sure you care to do anything about but I would like to bring to your attention, maybe if may others have the same issue then it could be an area you’d like to look into.

1. Very often for the longest time your theme has outdated Woo Commerce has outdates templates. When Woo Commerce comes with an update it takes you very long to come out with an update that meets the updates template requirements of woo commerce. To prevent conflict and because I cannot bother to continue creating child themes with altered woo commerce templates/or manually installing the latest version of woo commerce that your theme is compatible with, I tend to wait with updating Woo until you come out with another update. It would be great if when woo came out with an update that you could more rapidly come out with just that small update so we could more easily keep everything updated without having to keep track of which version of Woo commerce your theme is compatible with.

2. second issue. From time to time on a regular basis I receive complaints from customers from my own site and those of other clients that have woo commerce installed that they have problems with the check out portion of the site because the styling of the elements is so minimalist ( small font, small check boxes, very light coloring of check boxes) that some clients miss them during check outs and don’t understand why they cannot complete the check out. (Not everyone is so very tech savy.) And often when I try to change the styling to make it more obvious (bigger and bolder) it either changes everywhere or everywhere but the woo commerce portion of it. Only in headings etc. So then I need custom code for that. It would be very nice if it was possible to separately edit the appearance of the checkout/ cart page to have bigger, bolder more obvious buttons/check boxes on those pages. Although I normally love the minimalist look, functionality and easy of use on these pages are way more important to not loose sales.

[christopher]

Hi Ariell,

Thank you for taking the time and giving your feedback.

• Woocommerce Update: I understand what you mean, and I will inform our development team, and we will do our best to make sure we have a shorter timeframe when it comes to updating the outdated template files. I just wanted to explain the case from our point of view, the issue that we have is that a small change in a template file might work ok for your website, but for us, it needs intensive checking and follow up as one wrong change might cause a massive incompatibility with other parts of the theme and the bundled plugins that we offer. So please know that there is a massive effort going on when it comes to updating such template files, and it really takes time. We need to be very careful as we have a vast user base and different versions here and there. That is why you see that sometimes we are behind the current version of the Woocmmerce. Honestly, the other point is that every new version is not the perfect one, and there are times that we see bug fixes to make it stable. That is why we also need to wait to have a stable version of the new release from Woocommerce. That is also a nature of software with that big of a user base such as Woocommerce.

• Cart/Checkout Page: The cart page and checkout page can be changed via CSS without affecting the other pages. The trick is the body tag class that we add, which helps to restrict the CSS code only for that page. To change the cart page, please add .woocommerce-cart class at the top. So, for example, the CSS selector of the Cart Page title should be:

body.woocommerce-cart .entry-title {
}

Same goes to the checkout page:

body.woocommerce-checkout .entry-title {
}

Thank you.