I rolled back to WooCommerce 2.6 and the problem went away.
The site I’m launching had a lot of “cooks in the kitchen” and the person who designed it used the7 theme and Visual Composer. Those wouldn’t have been my choices, but I’m not going to redo it now. There’s some complex things going on with WooCommerce, Gravity Forms and Ultimate Member – a lot of band-aids and duct tape have been used to make the client happy.
My point is that I don’t dare try to activate TwentyFifteen at this point to see if the problem goes away and risk something weird happening when I reactivate this theme.
Ever since I took this project over this warning has been there:
Your theme (The7) contains outdated copies of some WooCommerce template files. These files may need updating to ensure they are compatible with the current version of WooCommerce.
- dt-the7/woocommerce/content-product.php version 2.5.0 is out of date. The core version is 2.6.1
- dt-the7/woocommerce/content-product_cat.php version 2.5.2 is out of date. The core version is 2.6.1
I’ve ignored it until now because everything worked and I don’t have the theme license info from the other web developer.
Just wondering if you all who are experiencing this variations problems have outdated WooCommerce theme templates like I do, and that’s what could be causing the problem.