Dev Center Updates

Control Panel URL change now live

by BigCommerce
The URL used in all store Control Panels will now reflect the store's Permanent Address (i.e. store-abc123.mybigcommerce.com). Previously, if a store had an SSL certificate installed, the store URL (i.e. my-store.com) and the Control...
Announcement
Maintenance

Cart Suggestions removed from Stencil context Cart model

by BigCommerce
As of June 16, the ability to request a list of suggested products relevant to the user's current shopping cart has been removed. If this information is requested using Front Matter or a stencil-utils call, it will not be returned. This...
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Extend the BigCommerce Page Builder with custom Widgets!

by BigCommerce
Beginning April 8, BigCommerce stores will have improved content management capabilities in the new Page Builder feature. This new capability is being slowly rolled out, starting with new BigCommerce stores. BigCommerce provides several...
Announcement
Enhancement

Chrome's SameSite changes have been temporarily reverted by Google

by BigCommerce
In a previous changelog entry, we warned you about changes to Chrome's handling of cookies via the new SameSite attribute, which affects the behavior of cookies in iframes, and thus affects the loading of BigCommerce apps. Google has...
Announcement
Warning

GraphQL Storefront API Updates - April 3, 2020

by BigCommerce
Bugs Fixed An issue where product description and relatedProducts would sometimes return null when the product was looked up via a route has been fixed. New Features The GraphQL Storefront API now supports running requests in the...
Announcement
Enhancement
Storefront API

New control_panel_base_url property on Store Information API

by BigCommerce
A new controlpanelbase_url property has been added to the Store Information API. This will always return the appropriate URL for the store's control panel, so you should use it for any instance where you need to link back to the control...
Enhancement
API
Announcement

Stencil-CLI 2.0.0 Release

by BigCommerce
The local Theme Editor has been removed, as it is no longer representative of the production experience. To test theme settings, we recommend pushing your theme up to a store and using the real editor. Add-to-cart issues when developing...
Stencil
Announcement
Developer Blog

API and Theme Updates for March 20, 2020

by BigCommerce
API Royal Mail is no longer a supported carrier for creating Order Shipments Tax Classes API now returns the default tax class Theme Theme Editor was deprecated in Stencil CLI versions 1.23.1 and later Developer Blog How to Write...
API
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Developer Blog

API and Theme Updates for March 13, 2020

by BigCommerce
API Clarified an App Client ID is required in requests to Get Current Customer Added more information about updating default currency Updated Webhooks documentation to clarify behavior Developer Blog BigCommerce Developer Blog to...
API
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Developer Blog