Our change log is an overview of new features that have been added to the Showcase theme recently. If your store is running an older version and you want to update it, you can! It's available as a free download. Read more about the theme update process here
4.0.9 - published 4th February 2021
Maintenance edits including a fix for iOS when pressing the browser back button where the page appeared to load slowly
4.0.8 - published 21st January 2021
New: Added support for subscriptions (requires an app)
New: Product page - added a new "Product Story" section (This allows you to add additional content blocks to the product page - the same content is shown on all product pages)
New: page to page transition fades on mobile
New: Gallery, ‘Image with Text’ and ‘Text columns with images’ sections can now have mp4 video or an image.
Update: Product page - added an option to have the description directly under the product title and not in accordions/tabs
Update: Product page - added an option to make the right hand side product details not stick
Update: Product page - review stars have moved below the product title
Update: Story page - now has Featured Blog section
Update: Collection page - Added text alignment setting
Other maintenance edits and settings updates
4.0.7 - published 21st Dec 2020
New: Added language support for Danish, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil + Portugal)
Maintenance edits
4.0.6 - published 19th Nov 2020
Hotfix: On Firefox, when the product Image Shape setting isn’t set to ‘Natural’ - the product image doesn’t show on product blocks.
4.0.5 - published 18th Nov 2020
New: Added color swatches
4.0.4 - published 13th Nov 2020 - maintenance edits
4.0.3 - published 10th Nov 2020 - maintenance edits
4.0.2 - published 10th Nov 2020
Maintenance updates to iPhone layout and tag group filtering
4.0.1 - published 5th Nov 2020 - maintenance edits
4.0.0 - published 5th Nov 2020 - design update
New: Product page redesign with lots of new layout choices
New: Inline navigation layout in addition to a burger menu and settings to show images in the menu
New: Search has a new look and feel
New: More control over announcement bar colours and text sizes
New: Footer is now block based - so it can have multiple columns and has more flexible settings
New: Collection page tag group filters added
New: Homepage sections
- Gallery
- Testimonials
- Text columns with images
- Background video
Updates to many different homepage sections to add new settings and flexibility:
- Slideshow
- Blog posts
- Collection list
- Featured collection
- Image with text
- Image with text overlay
- Featured product
- Newsletter
- Rich text
- Video
New: Story page - sections updated to reflect new homepage sections
Added settings to control the shape of images on product and collection cards to allow for more consistent layouts (Natural, Landscape, Portrait)
Update: New choices for product labels - including a scrolling marquee
Update: Added on scroll animation, and page to page animation (and settings to disable)
Added settings to control button styles
Added settings for ‘alternate sections’ (where the background has a different colour from the body)
New: Added support/styling for the Shopify Geolocation app
New: Added Surface Pickup support
New: Added popup - allows merchants to have a newsletter popup
Update: latest jQuery version and replaced liquid includes with render
Miscellaneous accessibility updates
3.0.5 - published 30th Sept 2020 - maintenance edits
3.0.4 - Submitted 4th May 2020 - maintenance edits
3.0.3 - published 4th May 2020 - maintenance edits
3.0.2 - published 30th April 2020 - maintenance edits
All CSS has been restructured/changed in preparation for Shopify scss deprecation.
3.0.1 - published 31 March 2020
New: Support for multi-currency (using Shopify Pay) and language localization (Allows for a multi-language store when used with an app)
Add unit price for Euro compliance
Maintenance edits
3.0.0 - published 26th February 2020
New: Support for Product Media - this new feature allows merchants to add video and 3D models to their products as product images. Read more about adding other media to your products.
For information regarding older versions, please reach out to our Support Team
