WooCommerce 4.3 was released on July 8 with several new features and improvements. This version of WooCommerce requires PHP 7.2+ and WordPress 5.2.
WooCommerce improved their update testing and therefore removed update warnings for incompatibilities for minor updates that shouldn’t make issues.
Highlights
New Home Page Experience
WooCommerce gets a completly new home page design that makes store management easier than ever. It includes following items:
- the inbox messages,
- a quick overview of the common store metrics, and
- shortcuts pointing to the most used settings
Blocks Update
New features and improvements were added to the Blocks.
- A new status for orders: “draft”
- All “Product Grid” type blocks has now 3 rows.
- HTML editing is no longer supported.
- Filter Products block gets more options.
- Improved handling of taxes for Filter Products by Price block
- Styling consistency and CSS improvements
You should double-check your Product Grid blocks after the update because of the changed rows.
Miscellaneous Improvements
A lot of improvements have been added in this update. For instance:
- improved concurrency handling for stock level management
- added a new Verify database tool to rebuild the database schema
- fixed CSV import and export tool bugs
- improved template caching in container environments
- fixed erroneous behavior of add-to-cart links
New Hooks and Functions
WooCommerce developers have added new hooks. Here is a list of the new functions:
| Filter | Description |
|---|---|
| woocommerce_before_get_rates_for_package | Fires before getting shipping rates for a package. |
| woocommerce_after_get_rates_for_package | Fires after getting shipping rates for a package. |
| woocommerce_add_payment_method_form_is_valid | Verify the received form data when adding a new payment method. |
| woocommerce_add_payment_method_form_bottom | Add additional markup at the bottom of the form to add a new payment method. |
| woocommerce_status_widget_low_in_stock_count_pre_query | Customize the low stock threshold to use for the low stock status widget. |
| woocommerce_status_widget_out_of_stock_count_pre_query | Customize the no stock threshold to use for the no stock status widget. |
| woocommerce_hide_base_tables_missing_nag | Customize the notice that appears when database tables are missing. |
| woocommerce_checkout_order_created | Fired after an order is created. |
| woocommerce_checkout_order_exception | Fired when an order is discarded due to Exception. |
| woocommerce_before_get_rates_for_package | Fires before getting shipping rates for a package. |
| woocommerce_after_get_rates_for_package | Fires after getting shipping rates for a package. |
| woocommerce_get_path_define_tokens | Customize the list of constants to be used in path tokenization. |
| woocommerce_hold_stock_for_checkout | Allows enable/disable hold stock functionality on checkout. |
| woocommerce_rest_performance_indicators_data_value | Customize admin reports. |
| admin_body_class | Add theme class to admin body. |
| woocommerce_blocks_register_script_dependencies | Add payment method script handles as script dependencies. |
| enqueue_block_editor_assets | Enqueue assets used for rendering the block in editor context. |
| wc_order_statuses | Register custom order status for orders created via the API during checkout. |
| woocommerce_register_shop_order_post_statuses | Register custom order post status for orders created via the API during checkout. |
| woocommerce_valid_order_statuses_for_payment | Append draft status to a list of statuses. |
| woocommerce_cleanup_draft_orders | Delete too old draft orders. |
Remember to create a backup before installing updates.
