WooCommerce 4.2 New Features & Best Themes

WooCommerce 4.2 and New Features

To keep the stability and performance of WooCommerce, the team regularly update this plugin with new features, bug fixes and improvements.

In this article, we will give you some notes about new features of WooCommerce 4.2 and some best WordPress themes ready for this new update.

And now, let’s started!

What’s new in WooCommerce 4.2

So, what’s new here? We will give some main points about the new features of this latest release.

WordPress Support Policy

Starting with the 4.2 release, the team will adapt an L-2 sliding window support policy. They are committed to ensuring that WooCommerce Core will work with the current WordPress version, as well as the two previous release branches.

You can read more about this new policy on the developer blog post.

New Hooks and Functions

In this release, one new hook will be added:

woocommerce_menu_order_count : Enables filtering for the count of processing orders shown in the menu.

Also, there are some changes in a few hooks:

woocommerce_matched_rates : Added the customer as a third argument.
woocommerce_attribute_label : Fixed a bug that caused the prefix of global attributes to be removed from the second argument.

Release Schedule

WooCommerce 4.2 will follow the release cycle:

Beta: May 12th
Release Candidate: May 19th
WooCommerce 4.2 Release: June 2nd

You can also dive and help test this new release, the handy WooCommerce Beta Tester plugin allows you to switch between beta versions and release candidates.

A set of testing instructions has been published on our Wiki page in GitHub and a helpful writeup on beta testing to help get you started.

Conclusion

Above are some main features of the upcoming WooCommerce. We plan to update all of our WordPress themes for this release and then you can download and perform it into your site.