Prestige

Added

• Added support for image filters. Image filters are a new kind of filters that can be created using metaobjects, and allow to show small images without cropping theme (as opposed to swatch images, that are useful for colors and patterns). You can learn more about how to setup visual filters in Shopify documentation.

• Added support for combined listing (only available for Shopify Plus merchants). Shopify Plus merchants who currently use the product variations block feature are encouraged to migrate to the native feature instead. Combined listings bring together products that are merchandised by an option, such as color, model, or dimension. Learn more.

• Added support for upcoming increase of variants per product limit. In 2024 and 2025, Shopify will progressively update its product underlying model to allow up to 2000 variants per product. Starting from this version of Prestige, your theme will be compatible when the feature will be introduced.

• Liquid blocks added in product blocks will now re-render whenever the variant changes. This allows you to write variant-specific information in such blocks, and the content will now properly adjust to match the selected variant.

• A new "Show date" setting (disabled by default) has been added on blog posts section and main blog post page, which allows to show the article publication date on blog post cards.

Changed

• Product Schema.org microdata has been updated to use the new structured_data Liquid filter. Microdata for product is now managed at Shopify level, and will allow to keep the schema in sync with future Google changes, without the need to upgrade the theme. Because it is no longer managed by the theme, if you find attributes that are missing, you will need to reach Shopify support directly instead of us.

• Article Schema.org microdata has been updated to use the new structured_data Liquid filter.

• We have changed how the price filter behaves on collection pages. Previously, the theme used to limit the number of steps. For instance, if your product prices would range from $10 to $500, we would force a step of $5, so a buyer could choose $5, $10, $15... and so on. To give customers more flexibility on how they can filter by price, we are no longer forcing a step. A customer can now enter the lower and upper amounts they want to filter.

Improved

• Product card main media won't be lazy-loaded for the three first product cards, if the section that hold them is at the top of the page. This approach allows to improve a bit the LCP.

• Keyboard navigation for collection filters have been improved. The theme will now automatically restore the focus once filters have changed, which allows to more easily turn on/off filters using keyboard.

• Performance of the countdown timer section have been improved, by removing unnecessary reflows.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where predictive search queries starting by the # character would not work.

• Fixed an issue where the border for color swatches named "White" would not show up as expected under some rare circumstances.

• Fixed an issue where dropdown selector for product pages could be partially hidden when the product section is followed by a newsletter section with overlay enabled.

• Fixed an issue where clicking on a video that does not autoplay on desktop for product pages would incorrectly open the zoom box.

• Fixed an issue where the "Text font" setting for product card was not applied on product recommendations.

• Fixed an issue where background gradient was not supported for the footer section.

For developers

Those changes are internal changes that were required to add support for new features and improve performance. They should not impact you unless you are doing extensive customizations to the code.

• Previously, when a variant would change, the theme would re-render the new variant in JavaScript. This allowed an immediate feedback. The support for combined listing and upcoming variant count increase now requires to re-render the whole section using the Section Rendering API whenever a variant changes, and re-render the section. We have added some preloading techniques to ensure that variant changes remains fast, but this also means that, because the product section will be re-rendered, JS listeners attached to product page sections will be lost when the variant changes.

• Since the version 7, Prestige has been using custom elements extensively, including built-in custom extends (using the is HTML attribute). Safari has never supported this feature (and re-expressed the fact that they never will) and the theme had to use a lightweight polyfill to use this feature on Safari. Unfortunately, recently, several Safari upgrades broke the polyfill, that caused minor breakings to the theme. Considering that Safari will never implement it, moving forward we have decided to no longer use built-in custom extends, so that we can remove the polyfill from the theme, and ensure a better long-term compatibility with Safari. While this change is internal and should not impact merchants, developers who have done major customizations and relied on those built-in extends will need to update their code.

• The product object is no longer part of the variant:change event that is triggered whenever the buyer select a new variant. This has been done for performance reasons and to comply with the new restrictions of the variant limit (variant and previousVariant are still part of it). If you need to get the information about a product beside the variant information, you will need to use the Ajax product API, or store yourself the product information in Liquid.

• A new cart-drawer:refreshed event is now raised whenever the cart drawer has finished re-rerendering (for instance when a new product has been added or removed from the cart drawer). This can be useful to create advanced customizations such as notifications.

Added

• The before/after section can now be controlled with the left/right arrows (or up/down in vertical mode), which helps improving the accessibility.
• The "scrolling content" section now has an optional "pause on hover" setting that, when enabled, will pause the automatic rotation when the content is hovered.

Changed

• On version 9.2, we added a new setting for the Slideshow section that allows to turn off the initial slide transition when page loads, to show the content as soon as possible and reduce the LCP performance (largest contentful paint) metric. We have found that removing the initial transition divided nearly by 2 the LCP for the home page, so we decided to make this the default starting from the version 9.3.0, to ensure that merchants get the best possible performance by default.

Merchants who want to prioritize animation over performance will now need to enable the "Show initial transition" setting on slideshow section.

Removed

• Shopify has deprecated the usage of multiple colors for metaobject collection filtering, and this feature has been removed from our theme. This feature was launched a few months ago but has not been adopted by merchants yet, so this removal should not impact most of the merchants.

Fixed

• We have fixed some edge cases for the new "Hide on scroll" feature introduced in latest version 9.2.0.