This major release launches some big new features and continues to refine the experience of using the Align theme. We've also fixed a number of priority issues which have been reported by our customers (thank you, all!) This is our biggest release to date, and we appreciate everyone's patience as we continue ensuring the highest level of quality.
Highlights of this release include: a complete product card overhaul (with hover imagery, video support, and variant interface); powerful new content and section layout settings; banner theme settings and a beautiful new banner card style; variant swatches in collection filters; a complete slideshow refactor; improved Multicolumn block column settings to more easily create custom layouts; and you can now add an icon to any button in the theme!
We're also excited to launch awesome new background settings in every section of the theme (and many blocks): you can now add background color, gradient, image, or video to any section in your shop 👀
This release includes our seventh major round of theme localization support, including new support for Arabic, Bengali, Estonian, Javanese, and Punjabi. This is in addition to the languages added in our previous major releases (👋 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇹 🇪🇸 🇨🇳 🇳🇱 🇯🇵 🇵🇹 🇧🇷 🇩🇰 🇬🇷 🇮🇳 🇹🇷 🇰🇷 🇳🇴 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 🇻🇳 🇬🇧 🇫🇮 🇮🇩 🇵🇱 🇸🇪) and brings us to a total of 30 supported languages!
This release also culminates an intensive theme-wide audit of all settings and setting organization, and aims to improve your experience in the theme editor. We've standardized all core section settings and added powerful new theme, section, and block settings throughout. And as always, we've continued to optimize our underlying codebase in preparation for exciting new updates in our forthcoming releases.
This is Align's seventh major release, and our seventeenth overall since Align went live 🎉 Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in the previous v1.6 release — it was a big one too!
We'd once again like to thank our customers for your trust and patience in our work. As always, we're here to help and we welcome your feedback — please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions, comments, or concerns. Your feedback helps us build a better theme.
Added
- All blocks: Ability to show/hide on desktop/mobile
- All buttons: Ability to add icon and control icon layout
- All cards: New banner style
- All cards: Text alignment settings
- All images: New "ultrawide" aspect ratio
- All sections: Add background images or videos to any section in the theme, including support for custom mobile settings
- All sections: Layout settings for content and section width, including new full-bleed section style
- Banners: Added theme settings for theme-wide styles
- Collections: Filter interface for variants and swatches
- Product cards: Hover image/video support
- Product cards: Slideshow gallery option
- Product cards: Variant interface with swatch support
- Product cards: Video and 3D model support
- Product galleries: Added setting to toggle image zoom functionality
- Product information section: Added testimonial block support
- Theme settings: Added border-radius layout setting for customized corner roundness on most frontend elements
Improved
- Accordion section/block: Improved dynamic post/page functionality to use excerpts and links
- All articles and pages: Improved excerpt control via
tag - All sections and blocks: Improved setting organization and information
- All slideshows: Completed core audit with miscellaneous improvements, including enhanced pagination styles
- Cart, Mini-cart, and Product information sections: Added keyboard support to the quantity input field
- Collage section: Improved layout support for 3-5+ blocks
- Hero section: Video block support and miscellaneous layout improvements
- Image and video sections/blocks: Improved width control via "max-width"
- Logo list section: Improved column settings and item text
- Multicolumn section: New block column controls for improved layout flexibility
- Product information section: Extended and improved the stock status component
- Theme settings: Improved setting organization and information
Fixed
- Banner block: Fixed minor issues and liquid errors related to foreground image
- Collections: Fixed mobile grid sizing edge-cases
- Mini-cart: Fixed miscellaneous UX/performance issues
- Product and Collection templates: Fixed sticky scrolling and performance issues
- Search: Fixed "clear all" functionality and miscellaneous minor issues