What’s Trending in the Dev Community?

Heather Barr
BigCommerce Developer Blog
3 min readNov 2, 2021

Welcome to a recap of what’s trending in the BigCommerce Developer Community. Every other week, we’ll take a look at the discussions happening in our dev spaces. You’ll see our most popular and insightful conversations, along with questions that could use your expertise or helpful advice.

In the BigCommerce Developer Community, we’re seeing conversations about the recent Store Switcher UI update on the login page from Agency Partners, troubleshooting the mini cart for BigCommerce for WordPress, and building custom indexing solutions for clients.

📣 Announcements

  • New Documentation!: We recently added documentation over Translating Regions, which describes how to create translations for a specific region. Check out the update in our Developer Changelog.
  • BigCommerce for WordPress V4.19.0 is now available: This update includes added support for the BigCommerce product create/update/delete webhooks, and more! Read all of the details of this release in the Developer Changelog.
  • BigCommerce for WordPress V4.19.1 is now available: This update brings in the ability to set the max file size for the import log and includes many fixes to product syncing. Read all of the details of this hotfix release in the Developer Changelog.
  • New Developer Blog: “Employee Spotlight: John Witson” by Heather Barr. In this blog, we introduce you to the manager of the Partner Enablement team and get to learn more about what drives their work, their journey at BigCommerce, and how they see the future of partner enablement at BigCommerce.

⭐ BigContributor

BIG Thanks to Geoff Tipley! You’ve always been someone that our community can count on. Whether that’s providing excellent support to merchants, developers and other partners, to being an A+ Partner who helps push BigCommerce forward, your contributions are definitely noticed! Woo! 🙌

🗣 Can’t Miss Conversations

Some of our favorite, trending conversations from the BigCommerce Developer Community.

  • Osama was experiencing some strange mini cart behavior with their BigCommerce for WordPress site and reached out to the community for some help. They noticed that the mini cart was appearing only on category and product display pages. Has this happened to you, or are you curious to know what the solution was? Check out this amazing thread in the #wordpress channel of the BigCommerceDevs Slack where Osama lets us know how he resolved this!
  • Justin was looking to connect with other Agency Partners on a recent change with the Login UI. This new functionality was introduced as a security requirement of BigCommerce. In case you missed this update and want to learn more, check out Justin’s thread in the #general channel of the BigCommerceDevs Slack.

🤝 Share a Solution

The latest Community questions and conversations that need a response. Provide a helping hand to your fellow e-commerce developers and share your ideas and solutions with the group.

  • Damon is about to start building a custom part finder solution for a site and is looking for advice from other members about querying product categories. If you’ve done something similar or have a creative idea to share with Damon, join our conversation in the BigCommerce Developers Community group! 😁

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