Shipping Display Mode

Same here….

As stated in the release post, the dropdown option has been removed in favour of radios.

This decision was made because:

1. We don’t want to maintain 2 separate views in core
2. If shipping options change, a dropdown hides this from the user, whereas the radios are obvious
3. No additional content can be added to options in a dropdown. With radios we have more control.

If you want them back you’ll need to make template edits based on the 2.4 template files, but TBH radios should be embraced ??

The radios display under the shipping type text for our site making it hard to read. Is there a way to roll back the update as we will start to lose sales very soon if the site isn’t smooth to use?

You could change the styling? As I said, they are default so if its a WooCommerce theme it should already be styled properly?

it sucks! radio buttons look weird. Now my website look weird.

If there is a display glitch, post a link – it can be fixed with CSS. For users, Radios are superior, as I said, especially when options change during checkout.

I ended up installing the plugin “Simple Custom CSS” and added the following:

.woocommerce ul#shipping_method li {
text-indent: inherit !important;
}

worked great.

Hi Mike,

I have a site in pre-production and updated to WC 2.5 and found that it’s now still set to a select box for Shipping & Handling, and I can’t now change it to radios?

https://tls.v2.semanticrew.co.za/cart/

Is there a DB change I can make to address this?

Best,
Lee

There are no selects in 2.5 LeeStuttaford. If its like that, you’ve overridden templates.

I’ve already started to lose sales… radio buttons suck!

How on earth can you claim radio buttons are the reason without a/b testing?

As I said, if the styling is wrong, provide a link so we can correct it.

There is nothing wrong with the styling… Mike sounds like your taking this personally and you shouldn’t some of us don’t like radio buttons and were doing just fine with the dropdown.

I’m not – wasn’t just my decision ?? But you’re throwing claims that its decreasing sales which afaik is pure speculation.

If you can give a better reason than “I don’t like it” perhaps I’ll spend some time making a snippet to make it a dropdown again. As it stands though, radio is more usable and easier to extend.

I have a client who has more then 40 shipping methods, in this current situation this gets a little crowded. How would you advice on handeling this?

Thanks in advance!

So we’ve got a customer that has local pickup but needs a variety of options for this local pickup (specifically, where will they be picking it up). We were using a simple dropdown list so they would just select the location from the dropdown, with each location being a shipping method. It was dynamically added. With this change, we now have a giant list of methods with no way to trim them down. This gives a bad user experience, which in turn impacts sales and the professional look of the theme. It’s bad enough that we’ve disabled local pickup for now and just had people type in which location they plan on picking it up from, but this hurts our automation stuff and adds a lot of overhead. Any recommends on how to deal with this?