Food Products for WooCommerce

Changelog

1.1.1

• The plugin is now called “Food Products for WooCommerce” wherever its name is shown.
• Automatic Markdown now offers every batch that is close enough to its date, each at its own
  step, instead of only the one closest to expiry. The shopper picks the date they want.
• The Expiry Dashboard’s columns can be sorted by clicking their headings, and the CSV export
  follows the same order.
• The product page stylesheets now inherit the theme’s font, size and colours, so the nutrition
  table, ingredient list, best-before line and batch picker read correctly on dark and light
  themes alike without custom CSS.
• Stylesheets and scripts are only loaded on the pages that use them: a non-food product page
  loads none of them, and the markdown stylesheet no longer loads on every page of the site.

1.1.0

• The batch table is now a tracked product’s stock. Switching “Track expiry dates and batches” on
  turns WooCommerce’s own stock management off for that product or variation (and for the parent
  of a variable product) and hides the option; the product is in stock while a batch in date has
  units left, the product page shows the batch total as “N in stock”, and a shopper cannot buy
  more than the batches hold. A product that was managing stock shows what WooCommerce held, so
  those units can be entered as batches.
• A full-price sale now comes off the freshest batch first, keeping the batch nearest its date for
  the reduced offer. A reduced sale still comes off the batch the shopper picked.
• Stock past its best-before date is no longer sold at any price unless “When a batch passes its
  best-before date” under Products is set to keeping it on sale, which adds a fixed last step to the
  Automatic Markdown ladder for it with its own discount and wording. The ladder’s own steps now
  start at one day out.
• “When every batch has expired” is now “When nothing is left to sell”, with two choices: show the
  product as out of stock, or hide it. The old “keep selling at full price” choice no longer
  applies and falls back to out of stock.
• What happens to a batch past its date is now one choice under Products – write it off by hand,
  write it off nightly, or keep it on sale at a discount – rather than two toggles on two tabs that
  ruled each other out.
• New Automatic Markdown: discount a batch automatically as its best-before date approaches,
  on a ladder of steps you set, with a live preview of what a shopper would be offered, a cap on
  how many units go on offer, a price floor, and a choice of what happens once every batch has
  expired.
• New Markdown Earnings screen: what each marked-down batch sold, what it brought in, what
  the discount cost, and how much expired unsold anyway.
• New Switching Log screen: every category move the nightly run makes, with the product, the
  direction and the batch that caused it.
• New Ingredient list, with allergens picked out in bold, shown as its own tab on the
  product page.
• New nightly write-off, and a write-off button on each batch, taking what is left of an expired
  batch off WooCommerce stock so the shop stops selling it. Pick the hour it runs at, on your
  shop’s own clock; it starts at midnight. It never takes stock below zero.
• Batch quantities now follow every sale, not only the reduced ones: a sold unit comes off the
  batch closest to its best-before date, the way the shelf is emptied, and a refund puts it back
  on the batch it came off. Stock you have not put a date on is sold last. The Expiry Dashboard
  and the batch table therefore read as what is still on the shelf rather than what was put there,
  and an expiring batch is no longer written off stock that was already sold.
• Split the settings into a General tab and a new Products tab. Each dashboard is switched on
  directly under the feature it reports on, and is only offered while that feature is on: Expiry
  Dashboard and Switching Log on the Products tab, Markdown Earnings on the Automatic Markdown
  tab. The General tab is left with the date format.
• The Markdown Earnings and Switching Log screens now open on the last year, and their date filters
  are labelled From and To.
• The markdown plumbing an order line carries – the batch it came from and the amount saved – is no
  longer listed on the order screen. The Best before date and the Offer it was sold under still are,
  and the money is on the Markdown Earnings screen.
• Rewrote the option names, labels, tooltips and messages across every screen in plain English,
  with one term per thing throughout.
• The write-off and delete buttons on the Expiry Dashboard now name themselves on hover, so an
  icon-only action says what it does before it is clicked.
• Every switch in the Expiry & Tracking tab now carries a help tip saying what it does, on both a
  Simple Food Product and each variation of a Variable Food Product.
• The Best before date and the Offer a reduced line was bought under now sit on a line each in the
  basket, mini-basket and checkout, instead of running together into one sentence.
• Fixed a Variable Food Product adding its parent to the cart instead of the variation the shopper
  picked. WooCommerce chooses how to handle an add-to-cart by product type and only knows its own,
  so the chosen variation was being dropped – which also made a marked-down variation come back as
  “the reduced units have just sold out”, the batch having been looked for on the parent.
• Nutrient table rows can be dragged by their grip again – jQuery UI was cancelling every drag
  because the grip is a button.
• Fixed the “Declared per” choices stacking on top of each other in the product-level Nutrient
  tab, so 100 g and 100 ml can be picked again.
• Dropped “Serving” as a declaration basis. EU FIC 1169/2011 wants the declaration itself per
  100 g or per 100 ml, so a serving size is now simply printed alongside whichever of those is
  chosen, on both the product page and per variation. Products that had saved “Serving” fall
  back to per 100 g and keep showing their serving size.
• Fixed the Unit select being taller than the fields beside it, in both the product tab and the
  variation panels.
• Fixed the nutrient row buttons sitting top-left instead of centred inside variation panels.
• Removed the nutrient row counter and the customer preview from the editor.
• Nutrient tables inside variation panels are drag-sortable again. The handler that set them up
  listened on the wrong element for WooCommerce’s “variations loaded” event, so it never ran.

1.0.2

• Renamed the plugin display name to “MFood Products for WooCommerce” so it matches the
  assigned plugin slug, as asked for in the plugin review. Nothing you have set up changes.

1.0.15

• Renamed the plugin slug and text domain from food-products-for-woocommerce to
  mfood-products-for-woocommerce, as asked for in the plugin review. The plugin name, its
  settings and all data saved on your products are unchanged.

1.0.1

• Prefixed every remaining global name (options, meta, hooks, cron schedule keys, script
  handles, page slugs, CSS classes) and removed the dynamic prefix concatenation.
• Fixed an unbalanced closing tag on the settings screens.
• Guarded product category lookups against an error result.
• Guarded a missing quantity value when building the notification email.
• Batched the email log writes into a single option update.
• Passed fputcsv() its delimiter, enclosure and escape explicitly, for PHP 8.4.
• Removed unused code and corrected documentation.

1.0.0

• Initial release.