Release notes
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Latest updates
BigCommerce for WordPress 4.28 for May 9, 2022
4.28
View release 4.28 on GitHub
Added
Support for WPGraphQL plugin queries has been added:
bCProducts
- retrieves a list of BigCommerce products
bCProduct
- retrieves single product data by product IDbCCategories
- get the BigCommerce categories list and their databCCategory
- get BigCommerce category data by category IDbCBrands
- get BigCommerce brands data list and their databCBrand
- get BigCommerce brand data by brand ID
Support for BigCommerce out of stock inventory settings located in Advanced Settings > Inventory > General Settings. To enable that feature in the plugin go to Customizer > Bigcommerce > Product Catalog > Respect General Inventory Settings. If the option is enabled, the next actions will be applied to the products:
Do nothing - product will be shown without changes
Redirect to the category page - user will be redirected from product page to product category page if a product is out of stock
Hide product on category page - product can be accessed directly with a link but will be hidden from the category page
Hide the product completely - the product will be hidden from the category page and can't be accessible with a direct link
Changed
Successful customer registration will not perform auto-login to the WordPress store. Customers should sign in to the store using the login page
Password reset form after submission will redirect customers to the same site in WordPress network
For example: If the customer submits the reset password form on nb.store.com after submission they still stay on the nb.store.comPass product SKU in analytics events alongside product ID
Synchronize password option is enabled by default for customers created via webhooks
Fixed
Fixed the scopes issue during on-boarding process that prevented store connection and setup
Fixed total and subtotal calculation on the cart when using discounts like Buy one, get one free
Fixes for the Twenty Twenty-Two theme include:
Correct alignments for second address row
Correct Wishlist size
Correct coupon code field size on the cart page
Correct mini-cart View cart button size
API Updates for May 5, 2022
API
Increased the limit of metafields allowed on each object per client ID from 50 to 250 on all object types (Brands, Category, Products, Variants, Orders) that support metafields.
Added the ability to add, update, or delete an SSL certificate to any stencil or headless domain using the Upsert a Site’s SSL/TSL Certificate Information endpoint.
Added the ability to add, update, or delete an SSL certificate to any headless storefront channels using the Upsert a Site’s Checkout URL and Delete a Site’s Checkout URL endpoints.
Added validation and error handling to the Upsert a Site’s Checkout URL endpoint if the checkout domain does not match the main domain.
Added the ability for the Sites endpoint to return all the URL types for all the different storefront channels with
channel_id
andurl_type
available as query parameters.
API Update for April 28, 2022
API
Added the ability to apply a manual discount using the Checkout Discounts endpoint.
Developer Blog
BigCommerce for WordPress 4.27.1 for Apr 20, 2022
4.27.1
View release 4.27.1 on GitHub
Fixed
Fixed the issue with products data fetch that prevented the correct import and only allowed import of the first 10 products
BigCommerce for WordPress 4.27 for Apr 20, 2022
4.27
View release 4.27 on GitHub
Added
Added detailed description to the Import Task Processing option in Settings > Product Sync
Respect product variants availability settings: if variant is disabled, or not available, it will be unselectable and visually marked
Added support for category
is_visible
flag:Hide disabled category from menu
Redirect from category page to 404 page
Exclude category from search index
Product under category can still be accessed, directly via URL
API Announcement for April 14, 2022
API
Added a rate limit to the Add Gift Certificate to Checkout endpoint.
API Update and Announcement for April 7, 2022
Checkout
Added new endpoints, Get Checkout Settings and Update Checkout Settings, to allow for updating a checkout loader script URL via API.
Developer Blog
BigCommerce for WordPress 4.26.1 for Apr 5, 2022
4.26.1
View release 4.26.1 on GitHub
Fixed
Increased the Custom Fields values limit and added correct processing for special characters. If an error occurs on that step, the import will continue working with the next batch of products.
API Updates and Announcements for March 31, 2022
API
Added form fields values to Customers POST, Customers PUT, Customer Addresses POST, and Customer Addresses PUT endpoints.
Multi-Storefront is now available! See the Multi-Storefront API Guide for details.
Node 12 End-of-life on April 30th
Node 12 enters End-of-life on April 30, 2022 (https://endoflife.date/nodejs). From this date, new versions of Stencil CLI will drop support for Node 12, and add support for Node 14. In order to provide time for developers to update their Stencil development/deployment environments, we will not bump the required version of Stencil CLI to a version that requires Node 14+ until June 1, 2022.