The solution is here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/your-theme-has-bundled-outdated-copies-of-woocommerce-template-files
This error message refers to custom template files, those stored in the /woocommerce directory of your theme. Check System Status per the error message, and the outdated files will be listed there. You simply need to copy the newer WooCommerce version of those files to your theme, maintaining your changes, and the error message goes away.
burlingtonnave, the files for the templates that come with Woocommerce have very different code than the Genesis Connect template files. The Genesis Connect files need to be updated for the latest WooCommerce. I would have no idea how to change the code correctly and have the templates still work.
Any update on this issue?
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Nick C
(@modernnerd)
Thanks for checking in about this! Please could anyone who still has this issue clarify the problems they’re seeing as a result of the older template files? Specifically:
1. What errors, layout issues, or other side-effects are the current template files in Genesis Connect causing for you? (Screenshots are welcome.)
2. Does your active Genesis child theme have custom WooCommerce templates installed in the themes/your-theme/woocommerce/ directory?
I’m very happy to investigate this further based on your responses and suggest amends to the Genesis Connect templates if required.
This message appears because you have custom WooCommerce templates in your theme’s woocommerce folder and the version number in those files is lower than version number in the equivalent template files in WooCommerce core.
The easy fix is as follows:
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Using your FTP client or hosting control panel, navigate to the wp-content/themes/your-theme/woocommerce folder.
- Open the files in that folder and look for this text near the top of each file:
@version x.x.x
(You will have an actual number where I’ve shown x.x.x above.)
- Assuming you are running WooCommerce 2.3.13, change that line to this in each of your custom templates:
@version 2.3.13
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Save the changes and navigate back to the WooCommerce System Status page in the Dashboard. The WooCommerce warning message you saw previously should have disappeared, and there should no longer be any warning messages in the “Template” section of the WooCommerce System Status page.
It is important to note that the WooCommerce warning messages appear because WooCommerce checks the @version number in any custom template against the @version number in its core template files. If the former has a version number lower than the core file, the warning message is triggered. Please note – this is a warning – it doesn’t necessarily mean that anything is actually broken.
Genesis Connect for WooCommerce works perfectly with WooCommerce 2.3.8. If you have layout issues with your shop pages AND you have your own custom templates in yout theme’s “woocommerce” folder, temporarily rename your custom templates by putting an underscore in front of the existing filename. This will cause WooCommerce and GCW to ignore those files and will load the default Genesis Connect for WooCommerce templates. If you still find a bug using the GCW templates, please report it here so that I can take a look.
Thank you studiograsshopper for that info. I haven’t had any issues other than the warning and it looks really easy to fix that with your instructions.
