Release notes
Broadcast theme updates
Broadcast theme updates
This release introduces two new sections: collection list hover and text with products. We've also updated to include Shopify section groups and the new Shopify query suggestions for predictive search plus a few other improvements.
New section: Collection list hover
New section: Text with products
Implemented Shopify's new search functionality
Page templates can use the transparent header option
Improved the Inventory Counter on the product form
Added more icon options
Included the "Divider" block into more sections
Modified secondary button styles – Buttons will now appear side-by-side instead of below
Brought back the previous product form style as a design option
Improved video functionality and fixed button icon shift
This release includes a significant update to the product form and shop the look section, improves button styles and functionality throughout the theme, and builds upon UX best practices.
Product form features have been separated into blocks.
Image with text – New secondary image style added.
Multi-column (previous "Text columns with images" and "Text columns with icons") – Added a "Menu" option with the ability to customize block widths
Focal points – This Shopify feature replaces our existing "position" setting.
Product form design.
Shop the look design and improvements to the mobile functionality of Shop the look.
Improved button functionality theme-wide.
Merge existing sections together for greater visibility*
The Split images section and Image Banner sections have been merged together as Image banner
The Text columns with images section and Text columns with icons section have both been merged into a new section called: Multi-column.
The Collection carousel section and Featured collection sections have both been merged into a new section called: Featured collection
*Note: You will need to reconfigure these sections when updating. Existing section settings will not migrate as they have been replaced by new sections. We recommend you manually add the new sections and configure them with the new options and controls.
General consistency improvements for arrows, buttons, and underline styles.
In this release, we've introduced a new icon set, mobile height settings for all sections, and general improvements throughout.
Mobile height setting for all sections to improve the mobile experience
New "Image with text" section
New "Features" block on the product page
New mobile slider style for product images on the product template
Customize the width of each Footer block for unique layouts
New icon set!
Connected the "Size chart" to the "Size" variant
Modified the "Image banner" section to utilize blocks – If you are currently using this section, you will need to rebuild it to accommodate this new functionality
Cart drawer and upsell product popup animations have been improved
The free shipping design has been updated and appears in empty carts to market free shipping minimums
Improved cart circle style for larger screen sizes
Optimized forms and newsletters for Google reCAPTCHA
Added color settings for the mega menu images to improve visibility
New password page design
New predictive search results for blog, pages, and collections heading terms
Enhanced the responsive design for product pages
Introduced blocks for the "Rich text" section. This will require you to reconfigure your "Rich text" sections.
Improved sibling functionality on Quick Add
This release adds support for product siblings, updates the collection page filters, and improves accessibility across the theme.
Product siblings - Link multiple products together as swatches. Learn more
Collection filters - New design and usability improvements
All new Quick Add design and functionality added with slide-out drawer
Introduced better cart animations
Accessibility improvements
Product search and close icon sizing
New section called Highlights to showcase collections and text content
New metafield option to customize the text below product images on collection pages
New circle option for the Cart icon
New Newsletter section in the Footer which appears above the main Footer content
New an option to include an arrow on buttons and text links
New text alignment setting for the Tab Collections section
Ability to increase or decrease the padding between the product images on the collection
Ability to add a Linklist menu to an Empty cart
Italian language translations
The upsell design, now allows customers to choose their variants 🎉 - Learn how
An all new Testimonials section with refreshed design
Improved linked variants for sold out products
Added support for multi-currencies in the free shipping message
Refined collection pagination when a Featured Product block was used
3.4.1 Release fixes a hamburger menu issue, where the closing "X" was missing
3.4.1 Added tooltips to the color swatches in the Upsell feature
Added granular padding options to each section. Now you manage easily manage the padding between various sections with top and bottom padding controls.
Improved sold-out variant styles. Swatches and variant boxes are now displayed as crossed out and drop-down variants will have sold out text next to them.
v3.3.0 was displaying a dark background on the header image blocks. This has been removed.
Improved the functionality of the mobile main menu animations.
Improved the video section on mobile if the device is in low power mode.
FIXED
Empty translation string error.
Now you can include a short description on the product grid sections like collections, collection list, and featured collection.
Add icons and text under product form on product pages
Pulsing loading icon that will appear on the first load of your website, or all pages. Example usage: Display your brand logo on page loads.
Inventory message. Low stock notification on the product form.
Before and after section to showcase customer results.
Sidebar section with sticky navigation. Recommended for FAQ and About pages.
Product page images can now appear 2 per row with the new grid setting.
Header design option for logo center and text left.
Added a text option for header icon styles.
Ability to use metafields for pre-order and badges instead of tags. Tagging option is still available.
Option to choose % off instead of $ off for sale items.
Upsell will now skip a product if that product is already in your customer's cart.
Video section now has the option for mobile-only image and height.
Gift card translation issue.
Main Menu animation now works when using the back button.
Footer social media icons are opening pages in a new tab.
Footer opacity setting.
Minor padding and margin adjustments.
Fixed Issue with Cart Drawer clicking "X" not removing items
Product grid text elements like product title and price now use Body font for sizing
Improved sold out badge text visibility on the product grid
New header icon set and options
Improved language support in Cart when items are changed
Fixed issue with video playback on mobile when there is no sound
Fixed issue with flashing slideshow transitions
Improved support for iOS 15 - slideshow and size chart scrolling
Improved support for Reviews app with Recently Viewed and Product Recommendation sections
Improved small newsletter visibility on scroll
New Added support for $0 products in Language Editor (Edit languages)
New Added Liquid code block to Product form
New Added show after 3 seconds option and position options to Small newsletter
Fixed issue with transparent header upon page refresh
New native video player. Deprecated Plry.
Improved support for no image products
Improved a11y support for navigation dropdowns
App block supported added to Accordion section
Improved collection filter selection support
New Added hotspot links to products in Shop the look section
Fixed Collection filter bug
New Supports Shopify Online Store 2.0 (OS2) platform
New Support for Shopify’s Collection Filtering - Add collection filters in your Navigation admin
New Includes support for sections everywhere - Place sections on all page types including Products, Collections, Blogs, Pages, Cart and more
New Pickup options for product template
New Recently viewed section
Updates to home page collection sections to ensure consistency
Fixed product page over scroll
Fixed minor cart upsell issue
Improved FAQ template design
New newsletter popup with targeting functionality, including a cookie popup.
New "Pair with" functionality to upsell in the cart. This automatically integrates with our product page upsell feature.
New "Collection Carousel" section.
New "Tab Collections" section.
New size chart functionality for product pages with the ability to have custom popups per product.
New "Back to top" scroll feature.
New "Custom icon" setting for the "Text row with icons" section.
New "FAQ" page template.
New mobile image option on the "Slideshow" and "Image with text overlay" sections.
New custom label functionality allows you to add any text such as "coming soon" to a product on the collection template.
Updates to product page images, with a new size setting and a new thumbnail position. Thumbnails can now be placed on the left side of the main product image on the desktop!
Updates to announcement bar with dynamic free shipping message.
Improved animations and transitions.
Improved main menu and mega menu design.
Fixed issue with line item properties.
Fixed issue with iOS scroll lock which can prevent scrolling the cart body when there are many items in the cart.
Fixed password page login error.
New upsell feature on the product page
New quick add functionality, replaces Quickview
New about page template
New accordion sections to the product template
New “Featured collection” slider option
New cookie popup option
Updates to sticky cart functionality
Updates to color swatches on collection grid when quick add is disabled
Updates to accessibility
Added Shop Pay
Fixed issue with product variant images
Removed jQuery dependency
Improved speed and load times
Added a cart drawer setting
Updated design for mobile menu
Added new menu design settings
Switched to predictive search API for faster search
Added support for subscriptions / setting plans on cart and order pages
Fix secondary currency price formatting on cart popup and recently viewed products
Fix issue on recently viewed products where no-image product causes JS error
Fixes issue were app injected URL params were wiped by variant state changes
Add unit_price in cart popup
Fix bugs introduced by architectural changes in 1.7.0:
Fix index-blog not showing tags
Fix margin-top for blank/captcha template
Fix issue where header height calculation was incorrect when the search is disabled
Fix auto height on RTE images for legacy mobile devices
Fix product title size for recently viewed
Fix forgot password page
Convert snippets to use render which improves overall performance.
Added support for Unit pricing (currently supported for Shopify shops in Germany and France).
Convert to social image setting in shop admin. Now uses Shopify's admin setting for the social image.
Improved the speed with Quickview on collection pages and all product grid listings.
Lighthouse performance updates. Major overall theme speed performance.
New setting to show/hide reCAPTCHA terms
Minor improvements to mobile display and navigation including newsletter popup and updates with cart icon.
Improved mobile layout for newsletter pop-up when using an image. Resolves blurry image issues and small input space when button text is long.
Corrects PayPal dynamic payment button not displaying after quantity change on the cart page.
Fixes shipping calculator currency money format on the cart page.
Yotpo ratings will now appear correctly on collection pages after an endless scroll load.
URL fragments can now be used with variant history on the product page
Better variant focus states for tab-thru
Fixes issue with swatches on collection page after endless scroll occurs
Adds a simpler way to manage pre-order products
Fixes issue where leading or trailing non-breaking space could prevent megamenu from matching a name
Fix small screen grid for related products
Added support for checkout in multiple currencies when using Shopify Payments
Added currency switcher to the footer settings - View supported apps
New group filtering mode added - This allows you to build custom groups to filter by. Tag your products with custom prefixes and underscore to build custom groups
Adds Shopify Pay multi-currency select to footer
Removes currency estimator from header
Adds support for Store Languages
Adds a tag filtering sidebar popout
Moves tag and sort pop downs on the collection page
Show variants as boxes added to Product Grid settings (displays variants in box format similar to swatches instead of dropdowns)
Fixes an issue with the YouTube Background videos
Adds a custom HTML section to make instagram app integration
Product Media - Shopify now supports Video and 3D model files on product pages. This release supports Shopify's new product media formats. Additional details.
Removes Instagram section Learn more
Add new bold preset
Adds a split here section
Corrects an issue with endless scroll. Most noticeable when loading the third page of products on collection pages.
Added the ability to turn off endless scroll in Layout settings under Theme settings.
Adds support for automatic discounts and buy-one-get-one discounts
Adds support for the new product recommendations
Adds live search (using the old API for now, we built this right before the new API came out)
Improved add to cart popup cart notifications
Adds an image and text column section
Adds an icon with text section
Adds a logos section
New translations: Portuguese and Spanish
Tweaks price and title mobile sizing
Switch open graph tags to JSON-LD remove messy itemprop markup
Improved screen reader performance
Improved homepage blog layout
Improved layout for collections list page
Transparent header setting
Meganav images
Sticky header setting
Add support for javascript currency switcher
Featured post section for the blog
Background video sound setting added for browsers that support audio autoplay
Update schema with contact url
Bug fix: Hide default variant title in cart
Bug fix: Fix quickview showing incorrect product on homepage with multiple collections
Bug fix: Fix footer social link colors
Initial release 🎉
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