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Big Cartel Wholesale Order Form Upgrade - Version 1.1

Template Details:

  1. Wholesale Order Form - ref.

Upgrade Details:

  1. Enable / disable stock level quantity limits - added option - ref.
  2. Show / hide associated product category list for each product entry - added option - ref.
  3. Define a minimum order value - added option - ref.
  4. Added “review order” link in form footer - expanded functionality
  5. Updated jQuery library and image zoom scripts
  6. Expanded image zoom style options
  7. Show / hide “Made With Aarcade” link also displays in sign-in footer

Notes:

To upgrade your template, re-download the zip package using the same download link provided in your original order and repeat all of the installation process - refer to Wholesale Order Form Installation Instructions.

Lite Theme Upgrade - Core Release 2

Affected Themes:

  1. All Current Lite Themes

Upgrade Details:

  1. CSS colour and extra style settings changed to custom option format - improved functionality - ref.
  2. Big Cartel background image uploader support added - expanded functionality - ref.

Additional Reference:

  1. How do I upgrade my theme?
  2. How do I install my Big Cartel theme?

Theme Upgrade - Core Release 7

Affected Themes:

  1. All Current Standard (Full Feature List) Themes

Upgrade Details:

  1. CSS colour and extra style settings changed to custom option format - improved functionality - ref.
  2. Pinterest and Instagram options added to social network icon links - expanded custom option - ref.
  3. Fit to width for middle located thumbnails on product page with small image setting - improved functionality - ref.
  4. “large freeheight” option added to products pages thumbnail sizes - expanded custom option - ref.
  5. Big Cartel background image uploader support added - expanded functionality - ref.
  6. Header text or image alignment custom option moved to Extra Styles section - improved functionality - ref.

Additional Reference:

  1. How do I upgrade my theme?
  2. How do I install my Big Cartel theme?

Theme Upgrade - Automatic

Affected Themes:

All Current Standard (Full Feature List) Themes

Upgrade Details:

1. Slide shows are now fully responsive down to small screen devices (e.g. iPhone) and include previous and next slide navigation via mobile device swipe gestures - expanded functionality - ref.

2. Vimeo and YouTube videos are now automatically resized to work with theme responsive layouts - new functionality - ref.

3. Slide show styles added - expanded functionality - ref.

4. Slide show effects revised to suit new responsive features (we got rid of the overly flashy ones) and random image order option added - revised functionality - ref.

5. Image zoom styles added - expanded functionality - ref.

6. Social network link styles added - expanded functionality - ref.

Instagram and Pinterest options, shown above, will be added in the upcoming core upgrade.

Notes:

1. This is an automatic upgrade and is already applied to your standard Aarcade theme. No further action is required.

2. If you notice any odd behaviour at your shop, reload your shop page (click the circular arrow icon in your web browser control bar) to ensure that all of the updated assets are loaded correctly.

Big Cartel Wholesale Order Form

A good wholesale order solution is something we need ourselves and know would be handy for a lot of our small business friends. So this is one that has been on our to-do list for a while.

Thanks to our wonderful friend Nicole (darngoodyarn.com), we finally got the push we needed to prioritise the development of a Big Cartel Wholesale Order Form.

Now available from our Extras section with plenty of features, including:

  • Works with any theme (with valid coding).
  • Works with Big Cartel’s standard checkout process.
  • Display wholesale discounted prices.
  • Password protectable.
  • Product category filter interface allows easier browsing of products.
  • Product image viewer displays all images for each product in a pop-up gallery.
  • Stock level check / correction as quantities are entered.

Check out the details and the full list of features at the product page - Big Cartel Wholesale Order Form.

Creating an “order via email” link

Check out the newly posted support article How do I allow my customers to email their orders? for an example that makes use of the recent core 6 upgrade (i.e. Big Cartel API code enabled in Insert Content pages).

Theme Upgrade - Core Release 6

Affected Themes:

  1. All Current Standard (Full Feature List) Themes

Upgrade Details:

  1. Custom menu links via custom options has been deprecated. Replaced with “##Page Title” advanced page navigation control - expanded functionality - ref.
  2. Big Cartel API code enabled in Insert Content pages - expanded functionality - ref.
  3. Responsive layout now enabled by default - changed custom option - ref.
  4. Support for hidden inputs added to custom options for the newsletter sign up form - expanded functionality - ref.
  5. Addressed issue with PinIt button displaying %20 in place of spaces - bug fix - ref.
  6. [[storename]] and [[copymark]] shortcode deprecated. Use Big Cartel API and HTML instead - removed functionality - ref.

Notes:

  1. If you only wish to address the PinIt button bug (item 5 above), you can download the latest theme package and install only the product.html (singular, not plural) to the Product theme page using the theme file tool.

Additional Reference:

  1. How do I upgrade my theme?
  2. How do I install my Big Cartel theme?

New Theme: Tupelo

Tupelo, the latest addition to Aarcade themes, includes all of our standard powerful features as well as:

  1. Expanding product grid: automatically fills full browser width
  2. Fixed sidebar navigation: remains in place as you browse products
  3. Colour-editable pop-out menus to display your product sub-category and sub-page menus
  4. Pop-out menus for social links and sharing tools with editable labels
  5. In menu newsletter and search forms
  6. Controllable menu order, i.e. category menu first or page menu first

We put a load of work and love into our themes and we hope you find this evident in the end result.

Check out Tupelo in the Aarcade shop.

Black Milk - for Aarcade’s Milk Theme Our first style block is now available in the Extras section. Style blocks are provided to show how the appearance of Aarcade themes can be easily changed using the inbuilt theme styles and options.

Black Milk - for Aarcade’s Milk Theme

Our first style block is now available in the Extras section.

Style blocks are provided to show how the appearance of Aarcade themes can be easily changed using the inbuilt theme styles and options.

New Stuff: Support, Previews and Extras

What we’ve been doing:

  • Re-writing support articles (including new streamlined installation instructions and tool) to accommodate Big Cartel’s new “Customize design” area. Visit Aarcade support.
  • Recapturing all standard theme previews to better showcase the power of in-built features including shortcodes, sub-page menus, category introductions, auto-categories and more. Visit Aarcade themes.
  • Adding all of the new pages (used in the theme previews) to our Extras section, so you can grab them for free. Visit Aarcade Extras.

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