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This maintenance release fixes priority issues caught internally and reported by our customers (thank you, all!) Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in the previous v1.8 major release — it was a big one!

New

• All cards: Added new ”Image aspect ratio - Mobile” setting
• Buttons: Added new “Circle” button style

Improved

• All sections: Audited and improved full-bleed border radius
• All slideshows: Improved renderering for "Preview next slides" setting
• Banner section: Removed full-bleed left/right borders
• Collection list section: Improved header button rendering
• Footer section: Audit full bleed gap and border radius
• Hero section: Icon margin on hover adjusted if/when only share UI available
• Localization blocks: Flex-direction updated to display in single row
• Logo list section: Desktop column count max setting increased to 12
• Mega menu block: Polished first-level-only Mega menu layout
• Mobile navigation: Improved ‘close’ hamburger click target
• Mobile navigation: Removed extra gap below banners
• Navigation section: Improved cursor hover style on non-link elements
• Navigation section: Refined layout of Mega menu, Menu, and Search block modals
• Navigation section: Improved overlay rendering for active modals
• Product cards: Improved image loading
• Product cards: Improved UX for edge-case of multiple cards with same product
• Product information section: Improved full-bleed layout gap/padding
• Product information section: Improved overflow rendering
• Testimonial blocks: Improved rendering for no/zero rating
• Miscellaneous section and block settings order and information updates

Fixed

• All slideshows: Audited missing navigation interfaces
• Buttons section: Audited extra top padding
• Collage section: Aspect ratios audited for all blocks
• Collection list section: Pagination and button positioning rendering issue fixed
• Collection section: Empty filters buttons rendering edge-case fixed
• Collection section: Mobile filtering and sort interface fixed
• Features bar section: Mobile rendering audited everywhere
• Hero sections: Correctly hiding empty featured image
• Image/Video with text sections: Content alignment audited
• Logo list section: Fixed column count setting issue (off by 1)
• Mini-cart block: Fixed the color of items-in-cart number
• Mobile: Viewport scale/drag edge-case fixed
• Mobile navigation: Banner layout fully audited
• Multicolumn section: Content alignment settings audited for all blocks
• Navigation section: Fixed hover menus not closing with search UX
• Product card: Padding card style fixed
• Rich text: Fixed caption font rendering
• Slideshow with text controls: Removed overlay from active slide

This major release launches some exciting 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!)

Highlights of this release include: an entirely rebuilt Navigation section (previously known as “Main navigation” section), including the ability to easily fine-tune desktop and mobile layouts, and to use it as a standalone section in any template; awesome new text transform theme settings to easily control how text looks throughout your shop; groovy new theme settings to use a gradient for your primary body background or alt backgrounds; a refactored “sticky” engine for buttery smooth sticky/scrolling UI/UX; and some significant improvements to slideshow performance which leverages the work we released in v1.7. Also be sure to check out our new “Calm” theme style preset — we think you’ll love it.

There’s a ton of other frontend polish and “under the hood” refinement in this release, and we’re excited to see what you build.

This release also includes our eighth major round of theme localization support, including new support for Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian, Latvian, and Romanian (👋 🇧🇬 🇨🇿 🇭🇺 🇱🇻 🇷🇴). This is in addition to the languages added in our previous releases and brings us to a total of 35 supported languages! (👋 🇦🇪 🇧🇩 🇨🇳 🇩🇰 🇳🇱 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇬🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇮🇩 🇰🇷 🇱🇹 🇳🇴 🇵🇱 🇧🇷 🇵🇹 🇵🇰 🇷🇺 🇪🇸 🇸🇪 🇹🇷 🇺🇦 🇻🇳)

This is Align's eighth major release, and our nineteenth overall since Align went live 🎉 Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in the previous v1.7 release — it was huge!

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

• Collection and article descriptions: Added “Expandable” setting to collapse long collection descriptions or article excerpts (great for SEO!)
• Mobile navigation: "Show open by default" setting to control which menu starts opened
• Navigation section: Added separator settings for full visual control
• Theme settings: New body and alt background gradient theme settings
• Theme settings: New text transform settings to easily make any text Capitalized, fixed width, lowercase, or UPPERCASE
• Theme style: Added new “Calm” style preset (previous “Minimal” preset has been deprecated)

Improved

• All slideshows (and all sections with slideshow functionality): Huge performance improvements; polished pagination styles; and new "freemode" scrolling for more natural UX
• Banner section/block: Improved margins, layout, and settings precedence
• Blog cards: Enhanced image rendering to improve image sharpness
• Collection filters: Improved sticky location and UX
• Collection section: Subnavs now have border option
• Footer navigation: Improved custom colors support
• Headings: Mobile layout polish and alignment settings
• Hero sections: Improved content and heading widths; enhanced button color support
• Logo block: Improved color settings
• Menu blocks: Improved layout for smaller screen sizes
• Menu blocks: Improved features bar rendering
• Mini-cart: Removed outer border on mobile
• Navigation and footer logo block: Added mobile width setting to provide even greater control of your mobile logos
• Navigation section (previously "Main navigation"): Rebuilt from the ground up to provide better performance and layout control for desktop and mobile (and some fun new features in future releases! 👀)
• Navigation section: Can now be used as a standalone section in any template
• Navigation section: Enabled hover UX style in editor
• Product cards: Improved image click UX and refined variant sizing
• Product information section: The variant select/dropdown arrow is now clickable; the gallery has improved pagination spacing
• Search: Polished mobile frontend layout
• Social media icons: Improved frontend ordering to match theme settings (alphabetical)
• Various content width and margin polish

Fixed

• All separators: Fixed edge cases with custom colors
• Articles: Fixed excerpts rendering the full post content
• Collection filters: Fixed mobile dropdown icon on reload
• Expandable text bug fixed on Safari mobile
• Minicart: Fixed empty cart glitch
• Navigation section: Fixed overlay "flash" bug
• Product cards: Fixed default variant selection bug
• Product information section: Fixed sticky add to cart bug with unavailable variants
• Product information section: Fixed sticky image which was getting influenced by Featured product section
• Product information section: Fixed mobile separator settings
• Search: Fixed predictive search results edge case issues
• Videos: Fixed the promise-based console error

Align theme

This maintenance release fixes priority issues which have been reported by our customers (thank you, all!) Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in the previous v1.7 major release — it was a big one!

Added

• Theme setting: New WhatsApp setting
• Translatable hardcoded strings for breadcrumb “shop” and collection “grid size view”

Improved

• All sections: Audit background siblings
• Banner section: Audit border radius
• Cards: Audit card padding style
• Product cards: Slideshow sizing
• Product cards: Slideshow navigation layout
• Collection and article cards: Setting to hide buttons

Fixed

• Collections: Filter results loading in editor
• Collections: Subnav background in editor
• Product cards: Video autoplay
• Product information section: Variant selector inconsistency

Align theme

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

Align theme

This maintenance release fixes priority issues which have been reported by our customers (thank you, all!) Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in the previous v1.6 major release.

Fixed

• Missing translations in section and block settings
• Predictive search functionality issues in the main navigation section
• Price range filter issue when applied filter does not match any products

Improved

• Fallback settings for cards using "default" and "theme setting" image aspect ratio settings
• Styling of Slideshow section cards on mobile devices
• Styling of the Rich text block with a specific combination of section settings
• Styling of the Variant picker block on mobile devices

Align theme

This major release provides significant refinement and control to the Align theme and fixes 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 ensure the highest level of quality.

We're most excited to launch our new color and image-based variant interfaces for Product templates — check out the improved Variant block in the Product information section! This leverages the recent updates Shopify has made to swatch handling, but we've added a few of our own concepts and settings: we're loving this additional flexibility, but we'd love to get any/all feedback as you start to implement this in your stores. (Next up: we'll be implementing these swatch filters in Collections! 👀)

This release also includes our fifth major round of theme localization support, including support for English (GB), Finnish, Indonesian, Polish, and Swedish languages (👋 🇬🇧 🇫🇮 🇮🇩 🇵🇱 🇸🇪). This is in addition to the languages added in our previous major releases (👋 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇹 🇪🇸 🇨🇳 🇳🇱 🇯🇵 🇵🇹 🇧🇷 🇩🇰 🇬🇷 🇮🇳 🇹🇷 🇰🇷 🇳🇴 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 🇻🇳) and brings us to a total of twenty-five supported languages!

Beyond that, we've added additional powerful new theme, section, and block settings throughout and we've continued to optimize our underlying codebase to continue launching exciting new updates in our next major releases.

This is Align's sixth major release, and our fourteenth overall since Align went live. Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in in previous v1.5 release!

We'd once again like to thank our customers for your trust and patience in our work. As always, we are here to help and we welcome your feedback! Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any/all questions, comments, or concerns. Your feedback is helping to build a better theme.

Added

• New section: Buttons; a simple section to display a row or column of buttons
• New interface and theme settings: Color and Image swatch variants in Product information section
• Accordion block: New video controls setting
• Accordion: Heading alignment setting
• All cards: Added "default" image setting (i.e. natural aspect ratio)
• All cards: Border color setting
• Banner: New border setting
• Banner: New mobile Background video setting
• Buttons: New XS style
• Buttons: New setting to open link in new tab
• Collections: Added 'Sort by' interface on mobile
• Collections: New 'Out of stock' product handling setting
• Discovery: Conditional section groups
• Featured product: Added Column width options
• Footer: Mobile alignment setting in all blocks
• Heading section/block: Include all header settings
• Heading: Add button link target
• Image/video block: New overlay color/gradient setting
• Multicolumn: Add Heading block and audit alignment settings
• Products: New color swatch variant interface and settings
• Products: New image swatch variant interface and settings
• Theme defaults: New 'Add to cart' default text setting
• Theme defaults: New 'Subscribe' button default text setting

Improved

• Accordion: Improve tag filtering
• Accordion: Improve video border radius
• All cards: Improve card and image border radius
• Article cards: Improve cta width
• Article cards: Improve text display logic
• Articles: Improve product sniffer logic to only display unique products
• Banners: Improved image settings
• Banners: Open link in new window
• Blogs: Improve tag filtering
• Collage: Improve image block display
• Collection filter: Conditional clear button
• Collection filter: Improve availability filter
• Collection filter: UI display settings
• Collection: Improve filters border radius
• Collection: Improve hover UX in "Showing" UI
• Collections: Deep audit of filters JavaScript
• Collections: Improve 'Sort by' dropdown functionality
• Collections: Improve filter stickiness when fixed sticky nav setting is enabled
• Email signup: Improve email signup error message handling
• Email signup: Improve tablet size display
• Featured collection: Improve pagination logic
• Footer blocks: Deep audit of all layout settings for all blocks
• Hero - Basic: Improve overlay z-index logic
• Hero: Improve share/print icon layout
• Image blocks: Improve alignment layout
• Image section/block: Audit rounded corners style
• Image/video: Mobile aspect ratio
• Logo list: Audit presets
• Main navigation: Deep banner audit
• Main navigation: Improved menu column layout logic
• Main navigation: Improved nested menu display
• Product cards: Improve price display logic
• Product cards: Improve tablet/in-between layout display
• Product cards: Various price, sale, availability improvements
• Product information: Audit Shopify subscriptions app
• Product information: Deep block audit
• Product information: Improved availability message on unavailable variant selection
• Product information: Improved button sizes
• Product information: Improved price update on variant selection
• Product information: Improved sticky Add to cart interface
• Product information: Improved unavailable variant logic
• Products: Improve unavailable variants handling
• Rich text: Audit button layout
• Search: Various UX improvements
• Slideshow: Banner block aspect ratio fix
• Testimonials: Custom icon and color settings
• Testimonials: Improved logic to handle testimonials without associated product
• Variant selector: Color Swatch UI
• Video block/section: Improved handling of custom poster size
• Video: Audit alternative aspect ratios
• WYSIWYG: Better image height logic

Fixed

• Accordions: Audit dynamic content edgecase
• Banners: Fix video background image fit
• Buttons: Audit secondary style borders
• CSS: Fix CSS issue in the Dark preset
• Collection cards: Audit aspect ratio overrides
• Collections: Fix anchored submenu flickering on mobile Safari
• Collections: Fix filters 'Clear all' sort-by query
• Main navigation: Fix CSS z-index issues
• Main navigation: Fix layout issue when the header is not fixed
• Main navigation: Fix menu auto-close bug
• Main navigation: Predictive search overlay not closing correctly on menu click
• Overlays: Fix 'blur' effect display issue
• Price range filter: Fix Firefox display bug
• Price range filter: Update missing “uses_comma_decimals” conditional
• Product cards: Remove selected_or_first_available_variant from url
• Search results: Fix sidebar empty links
• Slideshow text control: Broken layout fix
• Video block: Fix YouTube embed code error

Align theme

This maintenance release fixes priority issues which have been reported by our customers (thank you, all!)

Fixed

• Issue with the predictive search overlaying elements on mobile screens
• Issue with the empty predictive search sidebar links
• Issue with the price range filter when comma-separated currencies are used in a store
• Issue with the sticky subheader animation on iOS devices

Align theme

This maintenance release fixes priority issues which have been reported by our customers (thank you, all!)

Improved

• Sale badge takes priority over others on product cards for better product merchandising accuracy

Fixed

• Issue with the mobile menu closing
• Issue with the banner default aspect ratio setting
• Issue with the footer navigation blocks in the theme editor
• Issue with element height in the collage and multicolumn sections
• Wrong label in the theme editor for the top mobile padding section setting

Align theme

This major release provides additional refinement and control to the Align theme and fixes priority issues which have been reported by our customers (thank you, all!)

We've added powerful new theme, section, and block settings throughout the theme and we've continued to optimize our underlying codebase to prepare for some exciting new updates in our next major release.

This release also includes our fourth major round of theme localization support, including support for Korean, Norwegian, Russian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese languages (👋 🇰🇷 🇳🇴 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 🇻🇳). This is in addition to the languages added in our previous major releases (👋 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇹 🇪🇸 🇨🇳 🇳🇱 🇯🇵 🇵🇹 🇧🇷 🇩🇰 🇬🇷 🇮🇳 🇹🇷) and brings us to a total of twenty supported languages.

This is Align's fifth major release, and our eleventh overall since Align went live. Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in in previous v1.4 release!

We'd once again like to thank our customers for your trust and patience in our work. As always, we are here to help and we welcome your feedback! Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any/all questions, comments, or concerns. Your feedback is helping to build a better theme.

Added

• Support for customizing how filters are displayed when no matching products are found in a store using the Shopify Search & Discovery app
• Ability to adjust the padding of the Main navigation section allowing control over Main navigation height
• Setting to hide video controls in the product gallery
• Setting to control the product gallery display on mobile
• Slideshow option for the Testimonial section
• Ability to add inline icons to an Accordion block title
• Ability to link content in the Icon with text block
• Theme settings to customize the display of Collection cards
• Theme localization for Korean, Norwegian, Russian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese languages (👋 🇰🇷 🇳🇴 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 🇻🇳)

Improved

• Better dynamic calculation of Menu and Predictive search block position relative to the Main navigation bar on mobile
• Mobile predictive search layout
• Minor styling improvements in sections and blocks
• Product gallery video controls
• Removed Hero section template restrictions

Fixed

• Mobile Menu and Predictive search close UX
• Banner section aspect ratio settings
• Cart and mini-cart special order insructions
• Submenu flickering on Safari
• Heading type control in the Hero section

Align theme

This major release provides additional refinement and control to the Align theme and fixes priority issues which have been reported by our customers (thank you, all!)

We've added powerful new theme, section, and block settings throughout the theme, and we've added a few new templates to show off the power and flexibility of Align. We're also excited to launch a full overhaul of our Predictive search system, which will provide better performance and customization, and paves the way for some exciting new features in our next major release.

This release also includes our third major round of theme localization support, including support for Danish, Greek, Hindi, and Turkish languages (👋 🇩🇰 🇬🇷 🇮🇳 🇹🇷). This is in addition to the languages added in our previous major releases (👋 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇹 🇪🇸 🇨🇳 🇳🇱 🇯🇵 🇵🇹 🇧🇷) and brings us to a total of fifteen supported languages.

This is Align's fourth major release, and our tenth overall since Align went live. Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in v1.3!

We'd once again like to thank our customers for your trust and patience in our work. As always, we are here to help and we welcome your feedback! Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any/all questions, comments, or concerns. Your feedback is helping to build a better theme.

Added

• "Minimal" theme preset and demo store
• Theme setting for card heading font
• New product, collection, and blog templates for additional layout options
• Ability to show the five most recent searches in the Predictive search block
• Ability to show Page results within the Predictive search results
• Ability to search by product SKU in the Predictive search block
• Block setting to control default Predictive search results title
• Block setting to control the text size in the Heading block in the Hero section
• Icon with text block added to the Product information section
• Image block added to the Footer navigation section
• Banner video support for mobile navigation
• Section setting to disable the shipping and tax policy notice in the Product information section
• Section setting to control the ancillary image width in the Banner section
• Section setting to display the Main navigation as always fixed to the top, reveal/hide on scroll, or not be fixed
• Section setting to control column count in the Footer navigation section
• Section setting to make a block span the full width of the Footer navigation section
• Theme localization for Danish, Greek, Hindi, and Turkish languages (👋 🇩🇰 🇬🇷 🇮🇳 🇹🇷)

Improved

• Rebuilt our Predictive search functionality for better control and performance
• Rebuilt blog filtering functionality to not require page reload when filtering posts by tags
• Inactive collection filters hidden in a Collection
• Increased the maximum column width in the Slideshow section
• Altered the logic of the product cards to display product variant information when filters are applied in a Collection
• Various minor styling and UX improvements

Fixed

• Conditions for the sale badge to show up in the product card
• Collection subnav background color and animation issues in Safari on iPhone devices
• "View cart" button display in mini-cart
• Various minor styling fixes

Align theme

This minor release fixes priority issues which have been reported by our customers (thank you, all!) We've also included various priority style and UX refinements for various sections, blocks, and elements.

This is the third minor update to our recent Align v1.3 major release, and our ninth overall since Align went live. Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in Align v1.3! It was a big one!

Fixed

• Bug related to the "Show quick add button" theme setting
• Banner overlay flashing when navigating through the megamenu items

Added

• External links added to the announcement bar now open in a new tab automatically

Improved

• Increased the maximum allowed size of the images added to the "Collection List" section
• Audited empty cart elements in cart drawer and cart page
• Various section, block, and element UX and style improvements and optimizations
• Various mobile, tablet, and XL screen size UX and style improvements and optimizations

Align theme

This minor release fixes an issue which is causing visual website issues for some existing customers.

Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in Align v1.3! It was a big one!

We'd once again like to thank our customers for your trust and patience in our work. As always, we are here to help and we welcome your feedback! Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any/all questions, comments, or concerns. Your feedback is helping to build a better theme.

Fixed

• Replaced display_mini_cart with ux_cart theme setting

Align theme

This minor release fixes an issue which is causing theme updates to fail for some existing customers.

Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in Align v1.3! It was a big one!

We'd once again like to thank our customers for your trust and patience in our work. As always, we are here to help and we welcome your feedback! Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any/all questions, comments, or concerns. Your feedback is helping to build a better theme.

Fixed

• Reverted to v1.2.3 Hero section template restrictions
• Reverted blog templates to use hero-basic section

Align theme

This major release adds significant refinement and additional control to the Align theme and fixes priority issues which have been reported by our customers (thank you, all!)

We've added powerful new theme, section, and block settings throughout the theme, and we've added some great new templates showing off the power and flexibility of Align. We're also excited to launch an overhaul of our mini-cart and cart system, which will provide better performance, easier customization, and better compatibility with third-party apps.

(Oh, and we did a top-to-bottom JavaScript audit and reduced our scripts and dependencies by over 50%! And we introduced a small-but-mighty navigation setting to help create centered-style header layouts! And much more! We've been busy!)

This release also includes our second major round of localization support, including support for Chinese, Dutch, Japanese, and Portuguese languages (👋 🇨🇳 🇳🇱 🇯🇵 🇵🇹 🇧🇷). This is in addition to the key EU languages we added in our previous major release (👋 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇹 🇪🇸).

This is Align's third major release, and our sixth overall since Align went live. Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in v1.2!

We'd once again like to thank our customers for your trust and patience in our work. As always, we are here to help and we welcome your feedback! Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any/all questions, comments, or concerns. Your feedback is helping to build a better theme.

Added

• "Natura" style preset and demo store
• Page templates: About, Hero, Home page, Landing 01, and Landing 02
• Collection templates: Basic, Featured subcollection, Hero with background, No banners, and With promos
• Blog templates: Documentation, Landing 01
• Article template: Documentation
• Theme setting for the action performed after a product is added to cart: open the mini-cart drawer, update the icon in the header, or redirect to cart page automatically (Theme settings > Cart > "Add to cart style")
• Theme setting to choose sitewide card hover effects (Theme settings > Cards > "Show box shadow", "Show image filter on hover", "Scale on hover")
• Theme setting to set a default image to be used in page, product, article, or collection cards instead of the default Shopify image placeholder (Theme settings > Cards > "Default image")
• Theme setting to change the Add to cart button style in the product cards, or to hide it completely (Theme settings > Cards > "Button style")
• Theme setting to display or hide the product price from the product cards sitewide (Theme settings > Cards > "Show price")
• Theme setting for LinkedIn URL, which will display the icon alongside other social media icons sitewide (Theme settings > Social media > "LinkedIn url")
• Section settings to change the header and footer background, text, and icon colors (Main navigation, Footer navigation)
• Section setting in the “Product information” section to change the column widths on desktop devices (Product information section > "Column width")
• Section setting to align text and content in the Hero section
• Section and block settings to hide the video controls in all video sections and blocks
• Section and block settings to display blog posts from a selected blog or article in the Accordion section and block
• Section setting to choose the number of columns for tablet screen sizes for Slideshow and Multicolumn sections
• Block setting to pin any Main navigation block to the center of the section
• Block setting in Accordion blocks to display a button inside of the accordion
• Block setting to disable predictive search in the header and hero section search blocks (Search block > "Show predictive results window")
• Block setting a footer block in a new column (Footer navigation > block > "Show in new column")
• Block setting to display a footer block in a new row (Footer navigation > block > "Show in new row")
• Block setting to align the footer block content
• Block setting to display custom images in a Testimonial block
• New blog post footer section with more controls and better UI to showcase author, post date, tags and share/print icons

Improved

• Lots of miscellaneous mobile, layout, and style polish throughout! 💎🧐
• Refined default settings throughout all sections and blocks
• Overhauled mini-cart and cart page rendering using the Shopify Section Rendering API for better performance, easier customization, and better compatibility with third-party apps
• Improved performance and load times by reducing CSS file size and removing certain JavaScript dependencies
• Improved the handling of lazy/eager loaded images using the latest upgrades from Shopify
• Better styling of various WYSIWYG editor, hero, icon, text, and button elements
• Polished the styling for ordered and unordered lists for better nested list support
• Updated the placement of the “view all” button in the megamenu when there are more than three menu columns
• Improved the handling of certain theme color settings when transparent colors are selected
• Add to cart buttons now use translation JSON files instead of the block setting
• Changed the Twitter logo to X
• Removed grayscale from linked logo blocks
• Better 404 page layout and customization settings
• Pagination layout and style
• Better support for products with a 3D model as primary media

Fixed

• Miscellaneous edge cases for theme color settings
• Cart price display issue which prevented the display of “amount_no_decimals” setting
• Cart issue related to products with automated discounts
• Testimonial section image size issue
• Features bar default icon color issue
• Flashing of related product tooltips on initial load of a blog post

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This release improves app support and fixes priority issues which have been reported by our customers (thank you, all!) We've also added some small style refinements to various sections.

This is our third minor update to our core v1.2 release, and our fifth overall since Align went live. Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in v1.2!

We'd once again like to thank our customers for your trust and patience in our work. As always, we are here to help and we welcome your feedback! Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any/all questions, comments, or concerns. Your feedback is helping to build a better theme!

Fixed

• Display custom fonts in headers.
• Out of stock message on product pages.

Improved

• Hide the Features bar section on mobile if it is removed or hidden on desktop.
• Better validation for contact form inputs.
• Use final_line_price instead of original_line_price in cart items.
• Refined styles in Hero section if no featured image.
• Better header display in Hero section.
• Theme setting for Free shipping "threshold" updated to use number input instead of range (which was previously capped at 100).
• ReCharge app support (view documentation for more information).

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This release fixes a bug we've encountered with collection filters.

This is our second minor update to our recent v1.2 release, and our fourth overall since Align went live. Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in v1.2!

We'd once again like to thank our customers for your trust and patience in our work. As always, we are here to help and we welcome your feedback! Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any/all questions, comments, or concerns. Your feedback is helping build a better theme!

Fixed

• Display of filters on collection pages.

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This release fixes a bug we've encountered with mobile collection filters, adds backorder support to the product template, improves a few features in various blocks, and refines presets to better use new theme settings from the v1.2 release.

This is our first minor update to our recent v1.2 release. Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in v1.2!

We'd once again like to thank our customers for your trust and patience in our work. As always, we are here to help and we welcome your feedback! Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any/all questions, comments, or concerns. Your feedback is helping build a better theme!

Fixed

• Display of mobile filters.
• Display of search bar in hero section.

Improved

• Refined preset settings for new theme settings.
• Better translation support for predictive search block results.
• Hide accordion if no content available, e.g. empty metafield.
• Backorder status: Display "on backorder" for products with 0 remaining inventory, but marked to continue selling when out of stock.

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This release adds refinement and additional control to the Align theme, and is the first major release which accounts for customer feedback. Along with key bug and layout fixes, we've added more nuanced settings within various sections and introduce a powerful new setting to help create more flexible navigation layouts. We're also excited to introduce the concept of using article and page content within sections (only the Accordion section for now, but more to come soon!) We've also included our first round of localization support focused on key EU markets.

This is our second update since the Align theme went live, and we'd once again like to thank our customers for your trust and patience in our work. As always, we are here to help and we welcome your feedback! Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any/all questions, comments, or concerns. Your feedback is helping build a better theme!

Added

• Support for the "Follow on Shop" button
• Support for the Gift Card Recipient form
• Support for theme editor section previews
• Support for custom third-party and self-hosted fonts
• Setting to "fill available space" checkbox in all Main navigation blocks to allow highly flexible layouts
• Setting to display a full-width menu in the Main navigation
• Setting to control the layout of the search bar in the Main navigation, including the ability to show icon-only or full-width layouts
• Setting to display Vendor name in the product card
• Option for article and product cards to not show an image
• Setting to show/hide the add to cart button in the product card
• Setting to control the button style of the contact form
• Setting to control the "View all" button, including adding it to the mobile megamenu
• Setting to hide or show the announcement bar
• Settings for sitewide input styling
• Setting for Hero sections without featured image
• Support for custom date formats
• Support for videos in the Accordion section
• Support for page and article content in the Accordion section
• French, German, Italian, Lithuanian, and Spanish theme translations 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇹 🇪🇸 (More soon!)

Changed

• Updated organization of editable content (translatable fields)
• Moved the "items" string in the cart to a translatable field

Fixed

• In-stock button handling when no other filters are present in search and collection pages
• Logo maximum width issue on mobile
• Animation issue with the sticky add to cart button
• Megamenu issues when no maximum container width is set
• Audited and fixed background color and gradient settings across all sections

Improved

• The predictive search open/close logic to only show one predictive search dialog at once
• Standardized font weights and line heights across the theme
• Product page benefit block styling on mobile
• Cart drawer payment buttons setting and styling
• Article card caption content handling
• Improved Google Material Icon loading technique for better performance
• Full WCAG 2.1 compliance review and confirmation
• Other minor section and block styling updates

Align theme

This release introduces better pre-defined theme templates that mimic the Themea demo store more closely, along with some minor bug and layout fixes.

This is our first update since the Align theme went live in the Shopify theme store! 🎉 We'd like to thank our customers for your trust in our work. As always, we are here to help and we welcome your feedback! Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any/all questions, comments, or concerns.

Added

• New Product templates which show alternative gallery styles.
• New Collection templates which show potential banner settings in use.
• New "FAQ" page template.
• New setting in Product templates to disable the sticky add to cart functionality.
• New setting in the Banner section to define mobile aspect ratio and mobile background image.
• New separator block in the footer navigation section.
• New “Demo 01 - Themea” theme style preset.

Changed

• Adjusted the default index, product, collection, blog, article, contact, and cart templates to make the theme resemble the Themea demo store more closely on first install.

Other fixes and improvements

• Improved spacing of text and icon elements across multiple sections.
• Improved handling of the sticky “add to cart” animation.
• Fixed an issue with featured products in articles if multiple links to the same product present.
• Removed button settings from rich text section.
• Miscellaneous style and layout improvements.

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