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BigCommerce for WordPress 4.24.0 for Feb 15, 2022
4.24.0
View release 4.24.0 on GitHub
Added
Added separate logging section for webhooks. The section can be found under Settings -> Diagnostics -> Get Diagnostics. It shows entries from webhooks incoming requests(validation issues, endpoints triggering, webhooks errors)
Fixed
Fixed the customer's cache purging during the final import cleanup. Cache cleanup was moved to a background cron job to prevent the import process freeze due to the store's high number of customers.
To speed up the import process running import tasks in parallel was added. You can enable the option in BigCommerce > Settings > Product Sync. Enabling it will add an additional background task runs on listings, channels initialization, and product data fetching.
Added support for customer webhooks, which will enable real-time data syncing between BigCommerce and BC4WP for customer-related data, such as new customers being created and updated login settings. You can enable the option during the onboarding process or in BigCommerce > Settings > Product Sync.
Beta launch of the new BigCommerce Dev Center!
We are excited to announce the beta launch of the new BigCommerce Dev Center!
Our Vision
Your feedback is truly at the heart of this change. Over the past year, our developer advocates, product & engineering teams, and support agents have heard you loud and clear. Developers building with BigCommerce want better ways to get the answers and information they need. We took your feedback, explored the pain points, and made changes to improve the dev docs experience.
Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the documentation, resources, and tools you need to get started building quickly and have your questions answered promptly. We wanted to make the experience of using our dev docs simpler, more streamlined, and more rewarding. And we’re just getting started!
The new site lays the groundwork for the enriched developer experience and expanded resources we’re excited to introduce over the coming months. We want to empower you to design BigCommerce solutions that meet your needs and exceed your expectations, to engage with us as we create new content, and to know that you’re never working on BigCommerce products alone.
What’s Next?
During this beta phase, the current site at developer.bigcommerce.com will remain live. However, we encourage you to use the new Dev Center at developer-beta.bigcommerce.com and provide feedback to our team. We’ll be actively publishing and updating content on the beta site, making it the most up-to-date source for docs and resources moving forward.
Have questions or feedback? Fill out a feedback form here. We look forward to hearing from you!
Coming Soon: New, Redesigned BigCommerce Dev Center
We are excited to share that we will be launching a new version of our Dev Center in the coming weeks.
Our goal is to make it effortless for you to find documentation and resources that empower you to think creatively and work collaboratively to develop innovative solutions for BigCommerce stores.
What’s Next
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be posting more information on the official launch date.
If you have questions, feel free to submit them using our Docs Feedback tab on the site.
BigCommerce for WordPress 4.23.0 for Jan 24, 2022
4.23.0
View release 4.23.0 on GitHub
Added
In order to speed up the import process running import tasks in parallel was added. The option can be enabled in Bigcommerce > Settings > Product Sync. Enabling it will add an additional background task runs on listings, channels initialization, and product data fetching.
Added support for customer webhooks, which will enable real-time data syncing between BigCommerce and BC4WP for customer-related data, such as new customers being created and updated login settings. The options can be enabled during onboarding process or in Bigcommerce > Settings > Product Sync.
Fixed
Improve import process performance, optimize cleanup queries in order to reduce server resource consumption. Perform an additional cleanup before import starts.
Upcoming changes to HTTP header casing
Infrastructural changes to BigCommerce over the next 2 weeks may result in some HTTP headers being returned as lowercase which previously had a mixture of uppercase and lowercase characters.
For example, HTTP header names such as X-Rate-Limit-Requests-Left
may instead be returned as x-rate-limit-requests-left
. Per the HTTP specification (https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.2), HTTP header names should always be treated as case-insensitive, so we do not consider this to be a breaking change to the API. Most HTTP clients already treat headers with the appropriate case insensitivity, so we expect minimal customer impact from this change.
No changes are being made to HTTP header values as part of this change.
Cornerstone 6.2.0 for December 15, 2021
Theme
6.2.0
Fix tooltip on close button of modal is shifted. #2148
Optimized usage of jsTree library. #2145
Replace schema microdata with LD+JSON tag. #2138
Translation Gap: Checkbox Option selection on Product. #2063
Admin Bar displays regardless of setting. #2144
Fix Loading unnecessary product lqip images on cart page. #2149
Translation updates November 2021. #2146
API Updates for December 9, 2021
API
Added
store/order/transaction/created
andstore/order/transaction/updated
webhook events. Please note that if your application uses the store/order/* scope to create webhooks, it will start receiving this event and should be prepared to respond with a 200 status code. See Handling callbacks for more details.Created Widget Builder Guide for the newly-released Widget Builder development tool.
Updates to the Tools and Resources page and the API Docs' Building Apps section's Quick Start, Guide, and Build a Next.js Sample App tutorial reflect continuing support for app developers.
Developer Blog
API Updates for December 2, 2021
API
The Add to Cart URLs example now uses promises to demonstrate using JavaScript to make serial requests to a single endpoint.
The Add Consignments to Checkout endpoint now reflects limits to the number of line items a consignment can contain.
BigCommerce for WordPress 4.21.0 for December 1, 2021
4.21.0
View release 4.21.0 on GitHub
Changed
Set “New/Updated Since last Sync” as the default selection in the manual product sync on both the Settings page and the Product Archive in the admin.
Fixed
Reflects change of the customer's group after full re-sync process: customer should see product prices according to group settings
BigCommerce for WordPress 4.20.1 for Nov 19, 2021
4.20.1
View release 4.20.1 on GitHub
Fixed
Handle legacy PHP filter_input bug which may cause situation with empty auth headers and webhook validation fail
Update existing webhooks with new passwords when enabling webhooks in settings. The update prevents webhook validation issues with old passwords