Version 1.9 - 24 June 2025

This major release prepares Align for some exciting new Shopify updates and continues to refine the experience of using the Align theme.

We’ve done a top-to-bottom rebuild of all style presets and we’ve added a dozens of thoughtful, refined templates to use with each new theme style. We hand-crafted each template to help you hit the ground running with intuitive layouts designed to maximize conversion. These updates will help you effortlessly create the polished look from any of our demo stores, and will give you a huge head start to continue building your dream storefront.

This is Align's eighth major release, and our twenty-second overall since Align went live 🎉 Please reference the changelog to learn about everything included in the previous v1.7 and v1.8 releases — they were 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.

Stay tuned for more exciting updates just around the corner!

Added

• We’ve added dozens of hand-crafted templates to match your favorite theme style and look great out of the box.
• Updated and refined the new “Align” preset (previously “Clean”).
• Updated and refined the new “Darkroom” preset (previously “Dark”).
• Updated and refined the new “Embrace” preset (previously “Calm”).
• Updated and refined the new “Playroom” preset (previously “Playful”).
• Updated and refined the new “Verdant” preset (previously “Bloom,” and “Natural” before that).
• Added new Sitewide navigation settings group for more nuanced control of the sections and layout of your store’s main navigation.

Improved

• Miscellaneous polish and incremental updates to various core templates.
• Updated

Version 1.8.2 - 15 May 2025

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!

Improved

• Refined full-bleed section width margins for Banner, Image, and Video sections

Fixed

• Removed deprecated Shopify fonts from presets
• Fixed display issue for slideshow image style in Product cards

Version 1.8.1 - 24 April 2025

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