Align

Version 1.7 - 21 November 2024

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.

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

• Main navigation text color setting issues
• Blog filter functionality issues
• 'Clear all' button functionality in the 'Recent Searches' section of the predictive search
• Cart special instructions text color settings

Improved

• Specific cases of predictive search functionality
• Styling and display of sale prices on product pages
• YouTube video embed functionality and styling
• Product 'sniffer' functionality in blog article template
• Minor styling improvements in article, breadcrumb and contact form sections

Added

• A new theme style preset

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