API Update and Announcements for September 23, 2021

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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

Required Stencil-CLI version set to 3.5.0

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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
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Developer Updates for August 5, 2021

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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
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Published Widgets now appear during local development with Stencil-CLI

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As of stencil-cli version 3.4.0, any published Widgets on the storefront will appear while rendering the storefront locally with the CLI. This will allow you to have a more realistic preview of what theme changes will look like in
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API and Theme Updates for July 15, 2021

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Theme Added support for Localizing Variation Descriptions enabling you to customize the display language of your theme. API The Widgets API now supports Localizing Widget Template Settings. GraphQL API Reference documentation now includes a
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Theme Updates for July 1, 2021

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Theme Added ability to embed a GraphQL query in the front matter of a Stencil theme. See GraphQL attributes for examples and a complete list of available variables. Localization- Added ability to localize the control panel, system messages,
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Rendered Widget HTML now available in GraphQL Storefront API

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You may now fetch the rendered HTML of widgets created via Widgets API or Page Builder. To get the content, you’ll need to provide a page type, and the ID for the page (if necessary). In the response, you’ll get a list of all the regions on
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Blueprint Theme Update for June 17, 2021

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Blueprint Themes Removed Internet Explorer 11 or later from the list of Supported Browsers for the BigCommerce control panel. Developer Blog Headless Commerce Summit 2021 Recapped Now in Open Beta: Product Sort Order API on BigCommerce
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API Update and Announcement for June 3, 2021

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API Added the Product Sort Order API(Open Beta) which allows you to effectively manage the sort order of products displayed on any given category page. Developer Blog Inclusive And Accessible Omnichannel Strategies with JAMstack
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