Remove WooCommerce Plugin Check

[chihsuan]

Description:

This is a follow-up to Issue #1170, where the Plugin Dependencies feature was introduced (thanks @ryanhungate for adding this! 🙏 ), but the existing WooCommerce plugin check was not removed.

Since WordPress now handles plugin dependencies natively, ideally, we don't need to check the plugin now.

Problem:

• Users with non-standard WooCommerce folder names still encounter error messages. Specifically, the Mailchimp for WooCommerce plugin is available in the WooCommerce onboarding wizard. However, when they use a custom folder name for WooCommerce, this causes an issue that users will get an error message.
• To bypass this error, I understand that users can define the RUNNING_CUSTOM_WOOCOMMERCE constant, but it's not a good user experience.
• Maintaining redundant code adds unnecessary complexity and potential points of failure.

Suggested Changes:

• Deprecate/remove the mailchimp_check_woocommerce_plugin_status and mailchimp_check_woocommerce_is_installed functions.

References:

• WordPress Plugin Dependencies

[ryanhungate]

@chihsuan thanks for the follow up :) yeah we'll get this put into our next 5.1 release no problem and report back when it's complete. We had just pushed out 5.0 today so there's no guarantee on the next timeline as of right now, but I would assume after the new year this will follow soon after 👍

[ryanhungate]

@chihsuan just to let you know - we're going to be adding this feature you're requesting into the next version. Basically just removing those internal checks as you had suggested.

[chihsuan]

Thanks for letting me know! @ryanhungate That would be great! 👍

[khungate]

Hi @chihsuan, we wanted to let you know this went out earlier this week in v5.2. Appreciate your patience and feedback, please let us know if you still need any help and we'll be glad to reopen and troubleshoot further.

[chihsuan]

Thanks @khungate, I'll try it out with the new version. Nice work!