Kings Road 1.9.0 is now available. The update adds support for BigCommerce Backorders, featured promotion callouts and multiple coupons.
There are also new product display settings, wider use of responsive images and improvements to headings and blog pages.
Backorder support
Customers can now order out-of-stock products using BigCommerce Backorders with Kings Road.
You can set the quantity available for backorder and provide an expected shipping date. The theme displays backorder details on product and cart pages, including:
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Backorder messages
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Backorder quantity and availability
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Expected shipping information
This gives customers more information before they place an order, including when a backordered product is expected to ship.
For more details, see the BigCommerce Backorders guide.
Featured promotion callouts
Kings Road now supports featured promotion callouts on product listing pages and product pages.
You can use the new theme settings to control whether callouts appear and choose their colours.
These callouts help bring selected promotions to customers' attention as they browse your products.
See BigCommerce's guide to featuring promotions for more information.
Multiple coupons in the cart
The cart now has a new section for managing multiple coupon codes.
Customers can add and remove codes directly from the cart. We've also updated the cart totals to make multiple discounts easier to follow.
This uses BigCommerce's multi-coupon functionality for the cart and checkout.
You can read more in BigCommerce's article on multi-coupon support.
More product display options
Kings Road 1.9.0 adds new settings and improvements to product displays:
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Brand names: Choose whether brand names appear on product cards.
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Product columns on smaller screens: Select one or two columns for product listings on smaller screens.
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Title text transformation: Disable automatic text transformation to retain the original capitalisation of titles.
The theme also uses responsive images in more areas of the storefront, allowing images to adapt to different screen sizes.
Heading and blog improvements
We've made some changes to how headings are used across the theme:
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Individual blog posts now use an H1 heading for the post title, while pages displaying multiple blog posts continue to use H2 headings.
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Only the first hero carousel slide uses an H1 heading. Other slides use H2 headings.
The "Sort by review" option now also only appears when reviews are enabled in store settings.
Fixes
This release also fixes several issues:
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Fixed digital items showing as "Shipped to null" on the Order Details page.
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Fixed additional checkout buttons not updating after cart changes.
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Corrected wallet button display and updates when cart contents change.
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Fixed an issue with third-party integrations that could prevent customers from submitting product reviews.
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Fixed blog pages not receiving theme settings, which could cause the footer to be missing.
See the full Kings Road changelog for all changes.
Updating Kings Road
Kings Road 1.9.0 is available now.
If you use an unmodified Kings Road theme, you can update to the latest version from your BigCommerce control panel.
If you've customised your theme, those changes will need to be re-applied to a new copy of the updated theme.
Our Modified Theme Update service can take care of this if you'd like us to manage the update.
Looking for a new theme? View Kings Road to explore its features and see if it's right for your store.