API

• Determine the checkout that best suits your needs by reviewing the checkout options described in the new checkout customizability article.

Email Templates

• Added Email Templates Code Examples to demonstrate how to update text, add a button, change logo size, and change font size in the recently updated transactional emails.

Developer Blog

• GraphQL Authentication on BigCommerce

• Employee Stoplight: Issac Buckland

• Automate your BigCommerce Theme Configuration for Different Environments

• BigCommerce Employee Stoplight: Patrick Puente

A bug affecting users of stencil-CLI has been fixed as of CLI version 3.5.0.

As this bug was resulting in CLI requests incorrectly redirecting which resulted in a degradation of the local development experience, we have bumped the required version of CLI to 3.5.0to limit the customer impact of this issue. All CLI versions before 3.5.0 are affected. All users are strongly encouraged to update immediately in order to avoid issues during local development.

To get the latest version of stencil-CLI, simply run this command in your terminal:

npm install -g @bigcommerce/stencil-cli

4.17.1

View release 4.17.1 on GitHub

Fixed

• Fixes an issue with product imports/syncing where the process would fail (504) due to a timeout with upstream_response_time. The timeout value was increased to allow more time to complete the process.

4.17.0

View release 4.17.0 on GitHub

Changed

• PHPDoc for cart-footer.php template updated

Fixed

• Fixed Product Import logic so script and style tag contents are not displayed in product description.

• Fixed Uncaught ReferenceError: ga is not defined console error

• Fixed Wishlist product image thumbnail size

• Fixed reset password error

• Fixed low stock notification

Theme

• Fixed images placeholder on hero carousel shifted on mobile when slide has content. #2112

• Google AMP feature request - Add in release date info for preorder products. #2107

• Translation for states select field on account signup page. #2105

• Added description field below payment provider name on "My Account" > "Payment Methods" page. #2111

4.16.0

View release 4.16.0 on GitHub

Fixed

• Fixed styling of hidden product variant radio elements in Twenty Twenty One theme

• Fixed subtotal to exclude tax in cart details

• Fixed subtotal to exclude tax in order history details

• Fixed CLI importer warnings

Theme

• Translation mechanism for config.json has been updated. #2089

• As a shopper I want to see gift wrapping price in cart’s product list. #2093

• Fixed wishlist dropdown shift on quick view modal. #2102

• Empty email input in newsletter field should trigger an error. #2101

• Make Hero Carousel both slide and button clickable when button enabled. #2098

• "Manage Website Data Collection Preferences" phrase is not translatable. #2090

• No navigation back to wishlist tab when you are in a wishlist. #2096

• Reviews pagination navigation buttons reload page and does not open the Reviews tab. #2048

• Fix social share links for product pages and blog posts. #2082

• 'undefined' is announced with screen reader while changing product quantity on PDP. #2094

• Counter on the Wish Lists tab on Account page has been removed. #2087

• User Account, bug styles in section payment methods. #2085

• Scss lint has been replaced with stylelint. #2069

Theme

• Updated the product attributes table in the front matter reference to include the maximum number of reviews available per page. If a product has over 250 reviews, you can fetch the rest using the GraphQL Storefront API.

Storefronts

• Published a Headless Commerce Guide to instruct developers on implementing a custom headless storefront powered by a BigCommerce backend.

Apps

• Added a step-by-step tutorial on how to build and embed a Next.js sample app using Node.js, Next.js, and BigDesign.

Developer Blog

• The Practitioner’s Guide to BigCommerce Webhooks

• What’s New for Merchants in July

• When is Headless the Right Choice?

4.15.1

View release 4.15.1 on GitHub

Fixed

• Fixed a fatal error on plugin activation for new installs

4.15.0

View release 4.15.0 on GitHub

Added

• Added support for partial product import. A dropdown is added next to the Sync Products button with an option to sync only products that have changed since the last sync.

• Added support for channel status. The plugin will not load on the front-end if the channel status is anything other than active. Admin area will load but the product import will be allowed only for active and inactive status.

Changed

• Updated "Add to Cart" JavaScript functions to use [data-js="bc-cart-item-count"] selector instead of .bigcommerce-cart__item-count.

Fixed

• Fixed product page 404 error for logged in user. WP Forum: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/product-page-404-error-for-logged-in-user/