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Elementor Website Builder 4.2.0 Released

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What’s new in Elementor Website Builder 4.2.0

Released: 2026-07-20

Active installations: 10,000,000

Tested up to WordPress 7.0.2

Requires PHP 7.4

New: Introducing Grid for building advanced row and column layouts – Atomic Editor
Tweak: Improved Angie layout, composition, and design system creation from prompts and images – Atomic Editor
Tweak: Added dynamic tag support for AI-generated element properties
Fix: VideoPress URLs do not display on the frontend when used in Background Video and Lightbox dynamic tags (#24467)
Fix: Grid containers can cause slower Editor performance on complex pages
Fix: Filters do not work as expected in Website Templates
Fix: The Save as Template button is unreachable when the modal does not fit the browser viewport
Fix: AI-related Editor features show a console error when required services are not available yet
Fix: Missing classes can affect the editing panel when they are still applied to elements – Atomic Editor
Fix: Unsaved Class changes are not detected when switching between Design System tabs – Atomic Editor
Fix: Custom Font names with spaces or special characters do not work in the Font Family control – Atomic Editor
Fix: The drop indicator is missing when dragging Atomic elements inside row Containers – Atomic Editor