WooCommerce Recommendation Engine

• Update: WordPress 6.5 is now the minimum supported version
• Update: Tested up to WooCommerce 11.0
• Update: WooCommerce 9.0 is now the minimum supported version

• New: Large stores are offered a safe, one-click background optimization (via Action Scheduler) instead of blocking wp-admin; smaller stores are optimized automatically on update.
• New: "Database Optimization" status and controls on the Maintenance tab, plus a wp wc_recommender_optimize WP-CLI command for running the optimization off-peak.

• Update: Tested up to WooCommerce 10.4
• PHPCS Fixes
• PHPCS Formatting Automated

• Update: WC and WP compatibility updates.

• Update: Remove legacy code that was used to support older versions of WooCommerce.
• Update: Remove some deprecation notices related to strpos and str_replace functions.

• Update: Enhanced the cron job scheduling and options for better reliability
• New: Added feature to track cron job execution history
• New: Added dedicated Schedules tab to report on cron job history
• New: Added settings to the Schedules tab to enable or disable the built-in WP Cron job
• New: Introduced onboarding screen with options to configure WP Cron job settings
• Update: Enhanced onboarding screen with instructions for rebuilding recommendations via WP CLI
• Update: WC and WP compatibility updates

• Update: Do not drop the recommendations table when the plugin is deactivated. This will allow the plugin to pick up where it left off when reactivated.

• Update: Do not drop the session table when the plugin is deactivated. This will allow the plugin to pick up where it left off when reactivated.

• Updates: Updates to satisfy the security scanner.

• Update: HPOS compatibility.
• Fix: Correctly sort the Recommended Widget by the correct direction when using the "Also Viewed" type.

• Update: Remove hidden and products which are not available to the current user.
• Update: Remove legacy code, which was used to support older versions of WC.
• Update: Remove legacy async rebuild script.

• Update: Include new filters when rebuilding items directly from the admin dashboard.
• Update: WC and WP Updates.

New: New filter, woocommerce_recommender_purchased_together_status, which will allow you to change the status that purchased together is built from. add_filter('woocommerce_recommender_purchased_together_status', function($status) { return 'processing'; });

• New: New filter, woocommerce_recommender_also_purchased_status, which allows you to change the status the Also Purchased is rebuild from. add_filter('woocommerce_recommender_also_purchased_status', function($status) { return 'processing'; });
• Update: WC and WP Updates.

• Update: WP and WC version compatibility tags.

• Update: When using the shortcode on a page of the site other than a product page, and when the user has never interacted with the site before, grab the top product for the activity status requested in the shortcode. This product ID will be used for the comparision.
• Update: Fix deprecated call to woocommerce_reset_loop.
• New: Added shortcodes for the three different recommendation types. Must be used on a single product page.
  • woocommerce_recommender_viewed_products
  • woocommerce_recommender_purchased_products
  • woocommerce_recommender_purchased_together

• Update: Fix widget so that it uses a select box instead of a checkbox array for selecting which items to display.

• New: Add WP ClI coommand. wp wc_recommender_install. Installs stats from order history.
• Update: Don't load session if WC API request.

• Fix: Fix issue with older PHP versions during plugin activation.

• Update: Add ability to truncate session history table to prevent issues with recommendation build timing out.
• Update: Add better visual indicators when rebuilding recommendations for specific products.
• Update: Update rebuild function to only process products which could have a potential match.
• Update: Update Maintenance to allow rebuilding specific recommendation types for performance reasons.

• Update: Fix the rebuild column in the search results of recommendations.
• Update: Remove some debug statements which were committed.

• Added .pot file for translators.

• Feature: Added admin area to rebuild all recommendations based on recorded activity.
• Feature: Added admin area to install statistics based on order history before the plugin was activated.

• Fix: Do not start a session on WP_CRON jobs.

• Fixes session ID recording issues.
• Removed the stats generation part of the installation script. This is now handled via the cron job. Recommendations will not be present until the cron job has run for the first time.
• Changed default column layout to be 2 columns instead of 4.

• Fix memory and timeout issue in installation script by limiting the processing of only the last 500 orders.
• Fix to installation script to make sure that items returned from the order are a complete woocommerce product.
• Fix problem where WooCommerce is not always returning a product object from get_product_from_item();

• 2.1 - Modified installation hook priority to 99 to allow the woocommerce taxononmies to be registered first.

• Update: Modified the SQL statement to create / alter table to get rid of the duplicate primary key warning.