Baseline 5 is a major update featuring new sections, a refined design, and support for extended variants. The update also includes numerous bug fixes, performance optimizations and other improvements.
Added
- Support for extended variants with reengineered product forms
- Support for Combined listings (Shopify Plus)
- Product groups: a new theme feature that shows linked products as variants in each others’ product forms
- New “Shop the look” section
- New “Image with scrolling text” section
- New “Image with product grid” section
- New “Text and image carousel” section
- Several new sections with a countdown timer, including “Featured countdown timer” with a full-screen design
- New “Three column” product template
- New “Lookbook” template
- Overhauled product tile badges, which now support using product tags as a source and showing discount as a percentage
- Featured custom links with full screen video on hover
- Optional subheadings in all sections
- Option value preview in product tiles
- New design options for the “Testimonials” section
- New Press and Courier presets
Fixes and improvements
- Add option to not pre-select a variant in product forms, requiring actively selecting a value for every option before being able to add a product to the cart
- Allow removal of cart items using the quantity control
- All media overlay sections now have the same, more flexible sizing options
- “Add to cart” and “Checkout” buttons can now display price
- More consistent button styles throughout the theme, with simplified setup in settings
- New optional image load and hover animations
- Updated quantity selector
- New design options for quick buy buttons in product tiles
- New design options for inset images allow rounding corners and adding a border
- New design options for the variant picker
- Updated focus styling for keyboard navigation
- Improved support for currency code display options
- Customizable block spacing for product sections
- Improved support for swatches, with more granular settings
- More options for showing alternate product images on hover in product tiles
- New options for styling sold-out variants, now with support for both top-down and adjacent behaviors
- Section names are now organized by category in the theme editor
- Improved alignment options for footer elements
- Add settings to control spacing around headings
- Add settings to control product block spacing
- Overhauled uppercase settings for more consistency and flexibility
- Updated developer events to support extended variants
- Numerous bug fixes, performance optimizations and other improvements
Changes
- Remove collapsible tabs functionality from product description
- Unified Announcement bar section
