WooCommerce 7.4.0 was released on February 14, 2023. This release should be backwards compatible with the previous version and contains
- 274 commits from 63 contributors in WooCommerce Core.
- 220 commits from 27 contributors in WooCommerce Blocks.
As always, we recommend creating a backup of your site and making sure that your theme and any other plugins are compatible before updating.
The new Local Pickup
WooCommerce Blocks 9.4.0 comes with the new Local Pickup experience, offer a streamlined, dedicated pickup experience to your customers.
Local Pickups comes with a new shipping method toggle block, and an admin screen to manage locations.
New Customer Account block is now available
This block contains a link to the Login and My Account pages and was added to the Header and Footer patterns. It’s possible to customize this block to be displayed as text-only, icon-only, or icon and text. You can also select the icon style.
Highlight incompatible payment gateways within the Cart & Checkout Blocks
If you use any incompatible payment gateways, you will now get a warning notice in the editor side of the `Cart` & `Checkout` Blocks:
In the `Payment Options` Inner Block of the `Checkout` Block, we also display a warning under incompatible payment gateways:
Display “Add review” link when product has no rating
If a product has no ratings, “Add rating” link appears instead of stars. The idea is to help preserve the layout and eventually be a consistent way to link shoppers directly to the rating results for the product.
Apply rate limiting to non-admin users only
If you enable the rate limiting filter for Store API, it will only be applied to non-admin users. You can now edit your Blocks without being restricted by the rate limiting on the admin side!
Cart & Checkout buttons are editable
On the Cart Block, the “Proceed to Checkout” button text is now editable in the editor. On the Checkout block, the “Place Order” button text is also editable. These will default to the original text if left empty.
Simplified account creation settings in Checkout Block
We’ve removed some duplicate settings related to creating accounts and logging in during the checkout process. These settings are now pulled from WooCommerce Core and respected inside the Checkout Block.
Non-ASCII support for Filter by Attribute Block
You can now add non-ASCII product attributes and they will be respected by the Filter by Attribute Block.
Actions and Filters
This release adds 4 new filters and no new actions.
| Filter | Description |
woocommerce_bacs_email_instructions_order_status | Filter the email instructions order status. |
woocommerce_cheque_email_instructions_order_status | Filter the email instructions order status. |
experimental_woocommerce_analytics_variations_additional_clauses | Experimental: Filter the Variations SQL query allowing extensions to add additional SQL clauses. |
woocommerce_admin_experimental_onboarding_tasklists | Filter to override default task lists. |
Database Changes
There are no database changes in this release.
Template Changes
This release updates 5 templates.
| Template File | Github Issue |
templates/cart/cart.php | #36247 |
templates/emails/email-footer.php | #36310 |
templates/emails/email-header.php | #36310 |
templates/emails/email-styles.php | #36310 |
templates/global/quantity-input.php | #36460 |
Much💜 to all the contributors
WooCommerce thanks everyone in the community who has contributed to this release via issue reports, fixes, translation, testing, supporting other users, or simply spreading the word.
Credits
- This article was first published on the WooCommerce developer blog
- Main picture by The Average Tech Guy
