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Moving to Sitemap Indexes

Over the course of October, storefronts will be moving to return a Sitemap Index by default when navigating to/xmlsitemap.php, the default sitemap route for storefronts. There will be separate sitemaps for different types of pages such as

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BigCommerce for WordPress 4.18.0 for Oct 07, 2021

4.18.0 View release 4.18.0 on GitHub Changed Added support in the WP Menu feature for BC product sub-categories for adding the Product Categories. Updated version requirements and compatibility for PHP, MySQL, and WordPress. PHP 7.4+, MySQL

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GraphQL Storefront API can now be used to power Stencil theme context

It is now possible to augment the data available in the theme context through the use of GraphQL queries described directly in the Front Matter of template files. Using this capability, you can fetch data a little bit more flexibly to build

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BigCommerce for WordPress 4.17.1 for September 14, 2021

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

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BigCommerce for WordPress 4.17.0 for September 8, 2021

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

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BigCommerce for WordPress 4.16.0 for August 12, 2021

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

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BigCommerce for WordPress Hotfix 4.15.1 for August 3, 2021

4.15.1 View release 4.15.1 on GitHub Fixed Fixed a fatal error on plugin activation for new installs

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BigCommerce for WordPress 4.15.0 for July 29, 2021

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

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Published Widgets now appear during local development with Stencil-CLI

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