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Simple Shipping Changelog

Version 2.5.2 — December 16, 2025
  • Checkout: Improves fee handling on checkout.
  • Stripe: Adds support for Stripe line items.
Version 2.5.1 — October 22, 2025
  • Checkout: Fixes an issue which could prevent checkout when the base shipping country does not have set regions.
  • Checkout: Fixes the label for selecting an existing address showing when there are no addresses.
Version 2.5.0 — October 1, 2025
  • Admin: The download editor and settings screens have been updated for the latest EDD compatibility.
  • Checkout: Shipping fee calculation and handling on checkout has been improved for performance and accuracy.
  • Checkout: Simple Shipping now supports EDD core country/region paired selectors for any country.
  • Emails: The customer email address was missing from the note added to the order when the tracking email was sent.
  • Dev: Database queries for orders have been updated for performance.
  • Dev: The new minimum requirements are PHP 7.4, WordPress 6.2, and Easy Digital Downloads 3.4.0.
Version 2.4.3 — May 23, 2024
  • Updated and improved integration for EDD emails.
Version 2.4.2 — November 28, 2023
  • Checkout: The shipping form now uses native form validation.
  • Email: The email tags did not always work in a purchase receipt email.
  • Compatibility: PHP 8 compatibility.
Version 2.4.1 — June 29, 2023
  • Fix: FES vendors could have a fatal error when viewing a customer order with a shipped product.
Version 2.4.0 — May 30, 2023
  • New: Email tags have been registered for the shipping address and shipping amount.
  • New: Frontend Submissions vendors can now manage shipping and tracking for their orders.
  • Improvement: The overall admin experience has been updated to make it easier to manage shipping for orders.
  • Improvement: When possible, the shipping address has been moved closer to the personal information fields on checkout.
  • Improvement: Simple Shipping is now compatible with the EDD Checkout block.
  • Improvement: Performance has been improved for exporting unshipped orders.
  • Fix: For stores with taxes enabled, Simple Shipping could sometimes remove taxes from the order.
  • Fix: In certain situations, shipping fees could be incorrectly treated as duplicates.
  • Fix: Frontend Submissions vendors could not always see the order shipping address.
  • Fix: Email tags now work in the subject for tracking emails.
  • Dev: As much as possible, functions have been updated to use the new EDD order objects and data to improve performance.
  • Dev: Minimum requirements have been updated: PHP 7.1; WordPress 5.4, and Easy Digital Downloads 3.1.1.
  • Dev: Packages and build scripts have been updated.
Version 2.3.12 — November 9, 2022

This is a minor release to fix compatibility with EDD 3.0/3.1, improve EDD core blocks support, FES, PHP 8.1 and improve shipping calculation rates.

  • New: In EDD 3, the orders table can now be filtered based on orders with shipping and/or shipping status.
  • New: Extension is now fully integrated and compatible with EDD core blocks.
  • Improvement: Shipping tracking details have been added to the order receipt.
  • Fix: When cart is recovered, shipping was not always correctly calculated.
  • Fix: When placing an order and canceling the purchase flow, user was redirected back to the checkout page and shipping could be incorrectly calculated.
  • Fix: The correct shipping rate was not always calculated for FES vendor products.
  • Fix: When using FES 2.7, the Shipping field did not appear as an available field.
  • Dev: PHP 8.1 compatibility.
  • Dev: The FES integration requires a minimum FES version of 2.3.
Version 2.3.11 — November 15, 2021
  • Fix: Inconsistencies with shipping rate calculation.
  • Dev: Fix shipping fields visibility in EDD 3.0.
  • Dev: Update EDD_License instantiation.
  • Dev: Refactor how plugin gets loaded and checks system requirements.
Version 2.3.10 — September 13, 2021
  • New: Integration with the new PayPal Commerce gateway. The shipping address now gets sent to PayPal.
  • Fix: A string with no translatable text was being run through __().
  • Fix: Undefined variable $user_info on payment confirmation page.
  • Fix: Unable to clear tracking information via the “x” button. (Doing so triggered an alert saying, “You must have at least one price”.)
Version 2.3.9 — June 23, 2021
  • New: Added Spanish translation.
  • Fix: Deprecation notices in PHP 8.
  • Refactor: Update plugin author name to “Sandhills Development, LLC”.
  • Dev: Compatibility with EDD 3.0.
Version 2.3.8 — October 16, 2019
  • Fix: Compatibility with version 2.6.5 of Frontend Submissions extension
Version 2.3.7 — May 24, 2018
  • GDPR: Add shipping addresses to Order data in Personal Data Exporter.
  • GDPR: Add customer’s stored shipping addresses to Personal Data Exporter.
  • GDPR: Integrates with Personal Data Eraser
  • Note: Some GDPR features require Easy Digital Downloads 2.9.2 or later.
Version 2.3.6 — April 19, 2018
  • Fix: Changing shipping country still allowed clicking complete purchase before shipping values were updated.
  • New: Admin sale notifications now show full shipping country and state/province.
  • New: Added the ability to disable taxes on shipping costs.
Version 2.3.5 — March 8, 2018
  • Fix: Taxes not recalculated properly when changing billing country
Version 2.3.4 — August 4, 2017
  • Fix: Use EDD_Payment directly to avoid nested calls to maybe_unserialize.
Version 2.3.3 — August 4, 2017
  • Fix: Prevent incorrect output from showing on purchase history page.
  • Fix: Prevent PHP Notice upon checkout.
  • Fix: Prevent PHP Notice upon activation.
Version 2.3.2 — April 17, 2017
  • Fix: Prevent possible PHP notice when saving payment details in admin.
  • Fix: Switch to using EDD_Payment during the 2.3 upgrade routine.
Version 2.3.1 — March 31, 2017
  • Fix: Price ID not properly set on shipping fee, sometimes resulting in double fees getting applied
Version 2.3 — March 8, 2017
  • New: Added support for storing tracking numbers
  • New: Added support for sending shipment email notification with tracking numbers
  • New: Shipped status now shown on customer’s purchase history
  • New: Added support for saving shipping addresses to customer profiles
  • New: Added support for selecting from saved addresses during checkout

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