Expanse Release Notes

Available exclusively on the Shopify Theme Store

v6.1.0 – January 3, 2025

Changes

• Default default fonts - Default fonts have been replaced in each theme preset due to deprecation. Learn more.

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v6.0.0 – November 8, 2024

Bug fixes

• Fixed white space on footer section on mobile

• Fixed collection filter bar not sticking on mobile

• Fixed product image jumps when you zoom an image

• Fixed mobile overflow issue in featured collection section

• Fixed sizing issue with product per row in subcollections

• Fixed parallax not working in Large image with text box section in the theme editor

• Fixed variant availability bug when the dynamic product option is enabled in variant dropdown

• Fixed Shop Pay Installments banner missing on the product page

• Fixed height of buy button on product page

• Fixed issue with enabling the currency selector also disabling the Language selector

• Fixed issue with language selector not showing when enabled in the footer section

• Fixed stroke width of checkmark icon on product page

• Fixed image hotspots becoming unresponsive after changing a setting in the theme editor

• Fixed issue with swatches in the product grid not changing the product image when hovered over

• Fixed alignment issue of product labels in product cards

• Fixed the "overlay header over home page" setting when enabled

• Fixed product tab titles not having equal padding

• Fixed page content shifting when clicking a button or a link that points to a popup modal

• Fixed issue with Related products section not reinitializing after setting changed

• Fixed issue with unresponsive buttons on the customer account page

v5.2.5 – September 16, 2024

Bug fixes

• Fixed unresponsive add address, edit, and delete buttons on the account/address page

• Fixed 'Forgot Password' link not working

• Fixed logo overlaying on top of menu in the header

• Fixed social icon alignment in 'Popup' section

• Fixed button alignment in 'Popup' section

• Fixed issue where 'Popup' section would close during editing in Theme Settings

• Fixed condition where 'More from vendor' section was not showing

• Reverted custom JSON templates to Liquid to avoid confusion in the theme editor

• Fixed issue swiping through product videos on mobile

• Fixed overlapping menus when the announcement bar is placed below the header section

• Fixed issue where MP4 video added in the product media did not play automatically on mobile

• Fixed issue where Images of the first and last subcollections did not load on mobile

• Fixed issue where 'More from vendor' section did not display products for vendor names with special characters

• Fixed issue with white space in footer on mobile

v5.2.4 - August 6, 2024

Fixes and improvements

• Icons now load faster and are organized in icon library files

• On-scroll animations now have a simplified trigger using <is-land> elements

• Fix issue with preorder text not showing on preorder template

• Fix incorrect variant being added to cart

• Product images: enhance performance on mobile devices

• Map Section updated to latest API to properly outputs location markers

• And lots more bug fixes and stability improvements!

v5.2.3 - July 4, 2024

Bug fixes

• Revert "Retain theme editor config from modern/main"

v5.2.2 - July 4, 2024

Bug fixes

• Install components v2.10.64

v5.2.1 - June 21st, 2024

Fixes and other improvements

• Missing 'X' icon in footer section

• Modal opening fix on password page

• Price display on collection page

• Properly render blank theme editor values on section

v5.2.0 - June 13, 2024

Added

• Added support for Shopify's Swatch and Image Filters

Changed

• Full rebuild of main product section! Now faster, more modular, and extendable than ever!

• Dropped manual approach for building structured data. Instead, we use the new structured_data filter.

• Replaced Twitter icon with X icon

Fixes and other improvements

• Newsletter reminder will no longer flash in the header on initial load

• Improved the size of theme modals on mobile viewports

• Media with Text video now plays consistently

• Main menu can now be displayed in mobile footer when setting is enabled

• Fixed issue with slideshow not reloading after changing section settings

• Improved spacing around 'view all' links on mobile

• Improved spacing below Cart note

• Fixed issue with collection image not showing for selected collections on list collections template

• Fixed issue with hero video loading incorrectly

• Fixed issue with Gift card recipient form not working inside of Quickshop

• Fixed issue with Complementary products not working correctly in Quickshop

• Swatches no longer maintain active state when hovering has ended

• Fixed issue with Video hero section text shadows showing even when text is removed

• Fixed issue with 'Show cents as superscript' setting not applying to collection pages, recently viewed sections, and 'more from vendor' sections

• Collection and search pages now correctly display stock availability filters

• Optimize performance for country flags in currency dropdown

v5.1.0 - April 2, 2024

Added

• Adds Advanced Accordion section

Removed

• Removed references to Shopify Product Reviews app settings

Fixes and other improvements

• Fixes issue where hamburger menu isn't clickable when Menu layout is set to 'Logo center, menu below'

• Fixes issue with mobile checkout buttons not working due to an overlay

• Improves cropping of product gallery images

• Predictive search and cart item now correctly hide elements meant to be visually hidden

• Fixes issue where size chart icon did not appear next to variant option name

• Fixes various missing translations

• Improves sizing of logo list images

• Improves sizing of quick shop modal

• Fixes opacity issues with color scheme patterns

• Fixes issue with rich text editor formatting not being applied to announcement bar content

• Fixes issue where thick and thin product tile style were not showing on product grids

• Fixes issue with text and button alignment in Text Columns with Images section

• Fixes issue with heading style not applying to navigation links

• Fixes issue with variant labels not updating when clicking through variant options

• Fixes issue with collection filter for availability not showing correctly

v5.0.1 - February 21, 2024

Added

• Adds support for send on field on gift card recipient form

Changed

• Changed years offered in countdown timer settings

• Updated translation files to match new structure found in https://github.com/archetype-themes/locales

Removed

• Sunset references to Shopify Product Reviews app in accordance to end-of-support announcement (https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/product-reviews/migrate)

Fixes and other improvements

• Letter spacing typo in typography settings

• Fixed padding issue in predictive search results

• Fixed duplicate buttons on product page

• Cart recommendations products within cart drawer are now showing quick add and quick view buttons

• Fixed some shopify theme check linting warnings

• Fixed issue where specific product tile styles were causing a horizontal scrollbar to appear. Uncovered a larger issue with our styles and variables.

• Fixed issue with price range filter initializing too many times on collection page

• Fixed issue for CSS variables and negative margins on product grid item

• Fixed issue for image variant bug

• Fixed issue for Testimonials section where images would sometimes not show and their alignment was incorrect when text was set to right aligned

• Fixed issue for excess quantity when set to cart page type

• Fixed issue with promo grid images not showing

• Fixed issue with default state of countdown timer

• Fixed issue with predictive search pricing and vendor

• Fixed how triggers for size chart and quick shop are initialized

• Sets min-width for variant dropdowns

v5.0.0 - December 11, 2023

• New theme architecture built on Liquid Theme Components

• Fine-grained control over how JS loads for the interactive components via Islands architecture. Load JS as it’s needed, load the rest when the page becomes idle.

• Support for JavaScript Import Maps

• Refactored code into Theme Components found inside the snippets folder

• Refactored JS from single bundles like theme.js and vendor.js into individual ES Modules

• Refactored to use Custom Elements better JS structure, section lifecycle handling, and JS event management

• Refactored Quick Shop and Quick Add components for better loading and functionality

• Global theme setting for animating page transitions have been removed

• Lazyload images section setting removed from slideshow sections

• Removed a combined 100 lines of repeated swatch logic from recommended products and hotspots sections

• Various improvements made to improve page load time

• Improved our LCP score by 1.63s

• Image zoom works for right aligned product galleries

• Escape key closes Search when Predictive search is disabled

• Centered logo is correctly positioned on mobile header

• Color scheme textures are working correctly

• Fixed missing translation error for recipient form

• Product thumbnails are visible when set to ‘Below media’

• Fixed issue with opacity for theme modals’ background-colour

• Heading shows correctly for Text columns with icons section

• Fixed issues with inventory status not showing correctly for variants and incorporated merchant feedback to improve the overall logic

v.4.4.1 - July 11, 2023

•  Added support for recipient fields on gift card products

•  Added support for app blocks to more sections

•  Added support for Follow on Shop button

•  Swatch size setting has been moved under the Products heading within the global theme settings

•  Inventory transfer notice is better displayed on product pages

•  Images centered in the rich text editor now also show as centered in the storefront

•  Global setting for adjusting the stroke weight of icons now works as intended

•  Newsletter form requires email input to be filled out before it is submitted

•  Images have a quicker fade-in effect

•  Improved behaviour for predictive search experience

•  Improved layout for when text direction is set to right-to-left in global theme settings

v4.3.4 - May 4, 2023

• Products returned in search results without images will no longer produce a liquid error

• Text columns with icons section now includes translations for its settings

• Image comparison arrows show up correctly on iOS

• Predictive search updated to use Locale-aware URLs

• Autofocus removed from search input so that the 'skip to maintain content' link is accessible

• Opacity of img tags is no longer set to zero by default

• Improved layout of image and text section

v4.3.3 - April 24, 2023

• Restored expected functionality of the header menu dropdowns introduced in our accessibility changes, menus will now hover to open by default

• Logos in headers and footers no longer appear blurry

• Fixed checkout button issues on cart dropdown and cart drawer

• Image comparison images will no longer overlap

v4.3.1 - April 3, 2023

• Added support for Shopify's search suggestion functionality

• Various accessibility improvements across the theme

• Various improvements to images

• Fixes collection page layout

• Button on text columns with icon section will now show as intended

• Improved layout of products per row on more from vendor/collection sections

v4.2.0 - February 13, 2023

• New complementary products block to product page

• New image masks to various sections

• Support for focal points

• Support for section groups

• Support for heading alignment and size to various sections

• Collection filters now accept boolean metafield values

• New scrolling text section

• Newsletter section now supports adding an image

• Product grid now has a 'Products per row' setting

• Footer section now supports adding an image block

• Improved image loading across all images

• Blog comment fields are now required inputs

• Improved messaging when customers try to purchase beyond available quantity

• Countdown will now display properly on Safari

• Sub collections will now display properly on multi-language stores

• Color swatches on related products will now work as intended

v4.1.0 - October 11, 2022

• Adds in countdown feature

• Adds in image hotspot feature

• Adds in image comparison feature

• Adds in age verification feature

• Adds in new color scheme patterns

v4.0.1 - September 22, 2022

• Store availability tooltip will now properly display the product title

• Fixes issue where product image was not changing on variant selection

v4.0.0 - September 13, 2022

• Add smart availability logic to dropdown option selects

• Add labels to form inputs

• Ensure languages are capitalized in selector

• Improves low inventory label color

• quickview:loaded and quickview:open events will now return productId instead of sectionId

• Improves mobile scrolling on product pages

• Products page with hidden buy buttons will now work as intended

• Inventory transfer notices will now will now display the correct information on variant change

• Low inventory stock label will now correctly display on variant change

• Improves vimeo support on product page

• Mouse dragging on product images will no longer trigger zoom

• Featured products in the mega menu will now display as intended on multilingual stores

• Product swatches on collection page will now toggle as intended on hover

v3.1.0 - August 3, 2022

• Adds 'fixed' and 'flexible' setting for product thumbnails.

• Improves parallax feature

• Fixes issue where collection list limit can break when changing values

• Improves logic for newsletter popup states

v3.0.1 - May 26, 2022

• Fixes pagination issues on list collection templates

• Fixes issue where size chart could disappear

• Size chart will now follow store background colour

• Custom pre-order templates will now show the pre-order button as intended

• Corrects sizing and shape of colour swatches

• Fixes issue where dragging a slide opens the slide link

• Fixes issue where quickshop product images collapse

• Fixes various overlapping issues seen between popups and other elements on the page

v3.0.0 - May 11, 2022

• Adds a 'Text columns with icons' section

• Size chart has been removed from the 'variant picker' block and added as it's own standalone block

• Adds support for block attributes

• Improves design of newsletter popup and adds a reminder feature

v2.5.4 - Apr 14, 2022

• Fix a couple of missing translations references in global settings.

v2.5.3 - Apr 12, 2022

• Add full support for Italian, Spanish, German, French, and English locales

• Even more option select logic improvements

v2.5.2 - Mar 8, 2022

• Adds support for overlay header on created collection templates

• Refine product option select logic

• Prevent mobile nav from miscalculating height on open/close

• Fix gap in mobile sticky filter bar

• Hides size chart when setting is empty

v2.5.1 - Feb 25, 2022

• Restore functionality to mobile sort filters on collection page

v2.5.0 - Feb 17, 2022

• Add size chart feature

• Updated icon set for sales point feature

• A more intuitive variant selector

• Disable margin when no slide exists

• Ensure pricing text doesn't break with long titles

• Fix for mobile nav with duplicate titles.

• Fix page transition bug on article template

• Add CSS preload header

• Removes extra white space caused by pagination

v2.4.0 - Jan 25, 2022

• Added country support for currency selector

• Fix for search filter parameters

• Fix for mobile scrolling when sticky header is disabled

• Update Flickity to v2.3 to fix iOS15 swiping bug natively

• Fix product slideshow reflow

• Fix subcollections not showing on collection pages

v2.3.0 - Dec 20, 2021

• Add search filters

• Fully support Shopify Product Review app blocks. Remove theme-defined review blocks

• Do not re-open newsletter popup if optional CTA button is clicked

• Update collection product count after filter used on mobile

• Change cart terms and conditions setting to type page

• Prevent duplicate subcollections showing when duplicated in menu

• Add price to quick-add form

• Prevent collection filters breaking if featured collection section added to page

• Ensure unique ID on quick-shop contact form tabs

• Use search route when submitting predictive search field

• Fix MP4 video accessibility inside Flickity slideshow

v2.2.0 - Nov 17, 2021

• Remove minified JS - new Shopify requirement

• Add setting to show Shopify Reviews tab open on page load

• Prevent newsletter popup on password page

• Fix Photoswipe bug on iOS15

• Fix bug where sorting doesn't work if filter is active with a space in the name

• Fix filtering on vendor collection pages

• Allow tablets to close navigation by clicking outside of it

v2.1.1 - Oct 20, 2021

• Prevent vertical scrolling when interacting with slideshows on iOS15

• Convert FAQ page to JSON+LD structured data

v2.1.0 - Oct 4, 2021

• Support metafields for custom product tabs and labels

• Do not update inventory notice when inventory policy is continue

• Fix quick view description tabs not opening occasionally

• Update Facebook icon

• Prevent image set feature from breaking when misspelled in alt tag

• Add fuzzy search to basic search page

• Fix mobile filter visibility after selection

• Fix iOS15 product carousel jank because of Flickity bug

v2.0.1 - Aug 25, 2021

• Allow multiple collection filters to be selected without page refresh

• Add product blocks for Product Reviews app by Shopify

• Add custom code block to product template (supports Liquid)

• Update 'Custom content' section to support Liquid code

• Add support for app sections

• Fix quantity selector not working in quick view

v2.0.0 - Aug 18, 2021

• Online Store 2.0 - "Sections Everywhere"

v1.0.5 - Jul 6, 2021

• Fix duplicate collection filter JS when using back/forward browser buttons

• Initialize media/videos when first slide and image set feature active

• Fix missing color scheme text definition

v1.0.4 - Jun 23, 2021

• Add new preset design, Contemporary

• Add ability to move description next to image

• Add ability to disable cloned header and footer menu content

• Support multiple custom product grid labels

• Add related collection products on product page

v1.0.3 - Jun 17, 2021

• Dispatch JS event for when quick add modal opens

• Add color settings for announcement bar

• Updated Pinterest icon

• Add mobile image to image hero section on pages

• Fix map section details not showing on mobile

• Fix product videos not playing when using image set feature

v1.0.2 - May 18, 2021

• Add Shop Pay Installments banner

• Fix recommended product visibility after adjusting cart page

• Fix price size inconsistency if span=money is in shop money format

• Fix subcollection feature when language ISO code is 4 letters

• Fix image set feature not autoplaying MP4 videos

• Simplify dynamic variant availability JS

• Better sizing of filter dropdown drawer

• Add 'view all' links to mobile menu when parent is a collection

v1.0.1 - Apr 29, 2021

• Add style options for product description layout

• Fix footer page links not going to correct URL

• Add setting to remove product link from mega menu

v1.0.0 - Apr 26, 2021

• Theme launch!