Checkout

• Added new endpoints, Get Checkout Settings and Update Checkout Settings, to allow for updating a checkout loader script URL via API.

Developer Blog

• The BigCommerce Order Confirmation Page is Newly Customizable

• What’s New for Merchants in March

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

• 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 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.

4.26.0

View release 4.26.0 on GitHub

Added

• Added automatic API scope check during the plugin installation. If the API credentials don’t meet the required criteria, the plugin installation will be aborted and an error message will be shown.

• Added the ability to control customer's group cache expiration time and the ability to purge customer and products cache. To control or purge the cache go to Bigcommerce > Settings > Diagnostics.

• Use the Flush Users Cache button to purge the customers' group cache and retrieve fresh data from the Bigcommerce API.

• Use the User Cache Expiration option field to set the time that the group cache should be stored for.

• Use the Flush Products Cache button to invalidate products cache.
  Note: If webhooks are enabled the cache will be automatically invalidated.

Changed

• Update plugin readme Tested up to version.

• Update styles for Choose Options on Twenty Twenty-Two theme.

Fixed

• Correct label spelling from Production Condition Color to Product Condition Color in Customizer Colors section.

• Fix image zoom styling on product page for Twenty Twenty-One theme.

On April 15, 2022, the number of product images returned by the Featured Products, New Products, and Popular Products panels on Stencil storefronts is changing.

These panels will now return up to 10 images per product, instead of returning all of the images on each product if there are greater than 10. This change will result in improvements to storefront performance when products on the store have a large number of images.

If the design of your storefront relies on accessing the data for a large number of images for each of these products, please consider using a GraphQL query instead to access more images. GraphQL can be used to fetch additional data as frontend API calls, or can be embedded in Frontmatter to be utilized directly within the theme context via Handlebars.

On April 15, 2022, the behavior of the product.images node in the GraphQL storefront API will be changing to only return 10 images by default. If you wish to request a different number of product images, you should specify the `first` argument explicitly with your request, which is considered a best practice when interacting with any paginated collection.

For example, if you were previously sending a request like this:

query productsWithImages {
   site {
     products {
       edges {
         cursor
         node {
           entityId
           name
          images { // will return 10 images unless explicit arguments are specified
            edges {
              node {
                url(width: 640)
              }
            }
          }
         }
       }
     }
   }
 }

You could instead send a request like this:

query productsWithImages {
   site {
     products(first: 5) { // as a best practice, use `first` on all collections to specify page size
       edges {
         cursor
         node {
           entityId
           name
          images (first:20) { // will return up to 20 images per product
            edges {
              node {
                url(width: 640)
              }
            }
          }
         }
       }
     }
   }
 }

Please note that requesting larger amounts of data with increased page sizes will factor into the GraphQL complexity calculation for your query.

WordPress

• Added documentation that outlines how to improve WP-Cron reliability when using the BigCommerce for WordPress plugin.

Developer Blog

• V3 Pages API Debuts Bulk Operations & MSF Compatibility

API

• Added support to allow the gift wrapping option to be managed via Server-to-Server Cart API.

• Added Create a Customer Address and Update a Customer address endpoints to resolve duplication behavior for customer addresses in the Customer v3 API.

• Added visibility to new refund override fields in the Create a Refund and the Get Refunds for Order endpoints.

Checkout

• Added documentation describing how to create and update a consignment using the Checkout Consignment API.

Webhooks

• Added the ability for the store/customer/updated webhook to trigger when the account signup custom form fields is updated.

Theme

6.3.0

• Update blog component to use H1 tags on posts. #2179

• Remove Compare Form. #2162

• Fixed password complexity error not displaying the complexity rules set in the store settings. #2117

• Translation updates February 2022. #2177

• Cornerstone performance optimizations: blocking scripts delaying DomContentLoaded. #2158

• Cornerstone performance optimizations: remove unused fonts. #2176

• Update stencil-utils package. #2157

• Add google recaptcha to the password reset request page. #2164