Startup release notes

Release notes describe changes, fixes, and additions to the Startup theme. Use this article to stay in the loop with Startup’s latest versions. Each version is listed below with the release date, version number, and changes included.

Changed

• Removed Twitter feed section.

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January 19th, 2024 - v12.2.0

Added

• Added filter swatches to collection and search result filtering.

Changed

• Converted select input settings to text alignment input settings.

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July 6th, 2023 - v12.1.0

Added

• Added Gift card recipient form.
• Added Follow on Shop button.

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April 3rd, 2023 - v12.0.0

Added

• Added Section groups.
• Added Predictive search.
• Added a new theme setting to customize the "Continue shopping" link on the cart page.

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January 16th, 2023 - v11.3.0

Added

• Added image focal point support.
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Minimum version required to use Shopify's focal point feature.

Changed

• Renamed "Recommended products" to "Related products".

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November 10th, 2022 - v11.2.0

Added

• Added a new Age gate feature.

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October 19th, 2022 - v11.1.0

Added

• Added Complementary products block.

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July 22nd, 2022 - v11.0.2

Changed

• Expanded social media settings and icon options.
• Updated documentation link.

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February 1st, 2022 - v11.0.1

Changed

• We have updated the currency selector to use country names in addition to currency codes.

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October 14th, 2021 - v11.0.0

Added

• We added support for Shopify's Online Store 2.0 update, including:
• Sections formerly limited to the home page can now be added to the product page and static pages.
• Product sections now have the ability to add, remove, and move blocks of content around.
• Product sections can now include app blocks.
• Header navigation can now open submenus even when JavaScript is disabled.
• Support for Faceted filtering on collection pages, Shopify's new standardized filter system.
• Support for showing international tax-inclusive prices.
• New Custom liquid section.

Changed

• Most templated updated to use a JSON format instead of Liquid, as per Shopify's requirements.

Vintage theme versions

Theme versions listed below are considered vintage themes. Update to the latest version to optimize compatibility with Online Store 2.0 features.

July 14th, 2021 - v10.0.0

Fixed

• We fixed a bug affecting the featured collection section's header spacing.

Changed

• Theme styles have been updated and reordered to match demo stores.

June 28th, 2021 - v9.8.0

Added

• Subscription information will now appear in the cart and on the account order page.
• Support for Shopify's automatic international tax-inclusive prices.
• Shop Pay Installments banner now displays in supported stores.
• You can now enable Shopify product reviews on product pages.
• Product cards can now display product review stars.
• There's an all-new FAQ homepage section.
• We've added some new overlay settings to the Image with text overlay, Slideshow, and Video sections.

Changed

• The announcement bar has been moved out of the header settings to its own static section.
• We've updated several homepage sections behind-the-scenes to make them easier to maintain.
• We've given the testimonials section a fresh new look.
• The slideshow can now be placed anywhere on the home page.
• We've revamped the header with some new styles and settings.
• Icons have been updated around the theme.
• Social media placeholders have been removed.
• We have removed the product slideshow template.

February 22nd, 2021 - v9.7.0

Added

• Add preconnect.
• Add preload attr for CSS, fonts, and JS.
• Add font-display: swap.
• Use async or defer for scripts.

Changed

• Remove LQIP.

November 6th, 2020 - v9.6.0

Added

• Product pickup information is now displayed for featured products and on the product page when the shop has local pickup enabled.

Fixed

• Featured product sections no longer modify the URL when changing variants.

October 7th, 2020 - v9.5.3

Changed

• Updated all files to use the render tag instead of include, since using include is deprecated.
• Altered the wording in all languages for the copyright statement in the footer.
• Wide tables in product descriptions, pages, and rich text areas are now handled more gracefully on narrow screens.

Fixed

• Javascript works properly in IE11.
• Fixed the mobile footer layout bug when Show share section was disabled.
• The header logo will now show correctly on the Password page.
• Updated the link to help documentation for the slideshow while in the theme editor.
• Gift cards will now display their value.

September 17th, 2020 - v9.5.2

Changed

• We have removed the default social media sharing image setting and we now defer to the setting in the Shopify admin.

July 22nd, 2020 - v9.5.1

Fixed

• Issue with JavaScript being in developer mode.

July 15th, 2020 - v9.5.0

Added

• You can now display a label below the price on taxable products.
• Added capability for per-unit pricing in countries that support it.
• 10 new languages have been added to the theme translations.

Fixed

• Heading fonts are now all the correct size when not capitalized.

June 16th, 2020 - v9.4.0

Changed

• Currency selector setting info to tell merchants to visit payment settings, not currency settings.
• Stylesheet no longer uses SCSS, so settings update much faster in the theme editor.

What is Sass deprecation?

April 7th, 2020 - v9.3.0

Added

• Support for native Shopify multi-currency and multi-language.

Removed

• The old currency converter has been removed in favor of the new native multi-currency functionality.

February 11th, 2020 - v9.2.1

 Added

• Added the new Travel theme preset while removing the Art preset.

Removed

• Instagram section has been removed. The Instagram API used to display these photos has been deprecated with no suitable replacement so from now on you'll need to switch to using an app.

 

January 30th, 2020 - v9.2.0

Added

• Support for product media: images, plus videos and models.

 

January 13th, 2020 - v9.1.4

Fixed

• Fixed structured data outputting an empty itemListElement array.
• Implemented a fix on all mobile sliders which were encountering issues in the newest version of iOS (13).
• Fixed an issue where the forgotten password link wasn't working.
• Fixed an issue where the blog featured image wouldn't appear if it was set to full width.
• Fixed an issue where the product page thumbnails would get bigger during each browser resize.
• Fixed an issue where the Country & State/Province drop-downs were not being initialized when creating a new address.
• Facebook pixel addToCart event now triggers only once, as it should.
• The images on the static pages no longer get stretched.
• Fixed issue where slideshow was not displaying at the correct height in theme editor.

 

September 16th, 2019 - v9.1.2

Fixed

• We've fixed a bug causing the header to appear opaque when the full-bleed slideshow is enabled.

 

August 15th, 2019 - v9.1.1

• Removed our website link from the footer.
• Adjusted styling for dynamic checkout buttons on the cart page.

July 2nd, 2019 - v9.1.0

• Add settings to customize footer headings and social sharing sections.
• Add discounts to cart and order pages.
• Updated link for 'Read more' in Slideshow Theme editor section.
• Updated shipping calculator currency settings to properly reflect default currency selected by merchant.
• Show images and video thumbnails in dynamic Twitter section.
• Support link in the Theme editor now points to our new support form.
• Updated pxs-video version to resolve autoplay bugs.
• Add ability to add newlines to Alternating content blocks.
• Remove references to Google Plus, as Google has done.
• Update social-meta library to ensure display of Twitter preview images.
• Related products is now Recommended products, which uses the Shopify recommendations API.

December 19th, 2018 - v8.4.6

• Changed dynamic checkout buttons content.
• Changed dynamic checkout buttons to be enabled by default.

November 28th, 2018 - v8.4.4

• We've added the option to add your own favicon.
• Theme now asks Google to only index each collection page once, to improve SEO.
• Empty first slide in Slideshow section no longer causes the second slides image to not show.
• Applied a CSS conditional to specify the width of the product quantity input for IE11.
• Resolved Liquid error on Password page.
• You can now choose to show a lock icon on the checkout button.

September 27th, 2018 - v8.4.3

• We included the wrong video JavaScript file, but it's all fixed up now.

September 27th, 2018 - v8.4.2

• We've reordered the preexisting theme choices! It's all the same really, we just like it better this way.
• We retired the old 'video with text' section and gave the NEW video section a width option.
• The currency exchange note now appears correctly on the cart page below the express checkout options.

September 6th, 2018 - v8.4.1

• The Video section now has a width option, so the 'Video with text' section has finally been retired due to being a bit outdated.

August 23rd, 2018 - v8.4.0

• The text columns with images section now has an image width slider so you can upload crisp, high res images and they display at whatever size you want (within reason, and the slider).
• We've merged the two homepage video sections into one! Now you can enjoy having an overlay, as well as a header, on your video sections.
• You didn't ask for it, but we assumed that everybody likes having more options, so we added more options for the video section, such as cover images and customizable overlay colors.
• When opacity was set on a video, it (along with all the text) wouldn't disappear when the video is played, and what good is that?
• The newsletter section heading has now fallen in line and is styled like the other homepage sections-one of us, one of us, one of us.
• When videos are set to autoplay they'll now start playing on mute. This way you won't scare off all your customers with blasting music upon landing on your store, because no one is ready for that.

August 20th, 2018 - v8.3.2

• We've gone ahead and done a simple reorder of the theme presets in settings_data.json.
• Ugghhh, we also removed an unsightly gap between the product description and the 'more info' links on the slideshow product template because it wasn't very sightly.
• Following the principle of least surprise, now when you change the heading font style, the heading fonts will actually change style.

August 2nd, 2018 - v8.3.1

• We've fixed the issue where all touch devices were showing the drawer menu no matter the browser size.
• The contact page now has one and only one heading.
• Also, the Dynamic Payment Buttons now obey the button font settings and match the add to cart button.

July 26th, 2018 - v8.3.0

• We added the ability to select a default social sharing image, so you always know what your shoppers will see when they share certain pages of your site that aren't product pages.
• There was an issue where the first slideshow image was displayed at a different size than the rest of them, even if they were all the same size.
• The alignment on product quantity labels has been fixed in order to keep it looking as pretty as it should!
• Fixed an image with with text overlay button style so the accent style matches the others.
• We've tweaked the margins on the featured blog posts to keep all sections nice and uniform.

July 23rd, 2018 - v8.2.2

• We've made the borders on the Shopify payment icons consistent.

July 10th, 2018 - v8.2.0

• We've re-introduced a setting which allows customers to be directed right to the cart page after a product has been added to the cart.
• Fixed an issue with home page slideshow content not displaying on mobile.

June 19th, 2018 - v8.1.0

• Updated the newsletter forms to include rich-text support so you can add links.

May 31st, 2018 - v8.0.0

• Added support for Shopify's font picker.

April 5th, 2018 - v7.7.0

• Implemented responsive and lazy loading images.

April 3rd, 2018 - v7.6.0

• Implemented support for Shopify's new dynamic checkout buttons. Now on the product page and quickshop, customers can checkout directly via Amazon Pay, Apple Pay, Paypal, and Shopify Payments if you have those gateways set up on your store. 
• Fixed the infamous broken Twitter feed.

March 2nd, 2018 - v7.5.0

• Added more sections to the home page to comply with Shopify's sections parity update.

February 7th, 2018 - v7.4.3

• Fixed a giant woopsie where the product page broke because of the javascript not loading. 

February 1st, 2018 - v7.4.2

• Fixed the color of the Instagram section button so that it matches the rest of the sections.
• Updated Paskit.

January 16th, 2018 - v7.4.1

• Fixed broken Twitter and Instagram feeds.

January 8th, 2018 - v7.4.0

• Updated the menu system to be integrated with Shopify's nested navigation update. See this link to get more information on how to set up nested navigation.

November 30th, 2017 - v7.3.5

• Updated how we handle product inventory to comply with Shopify's new inventory policies.

October 5th, 2017 - v7.3.3

• Someone made a woopsie with some things that are in the works that we can't really tell you about that are sort of being released but only to ***new*** customers and that woopsie made us do a woopsie that BROKE EVERYTHING. But it's back to normal now. You can direct all thankyous to Adam and Joe. Thank you, Adam and Joe.

September 1st, 2017 - v7.3.2

• Images in the Instagram feed are square again.

August 25th, 2017 - v7.3.1

• Twitter feed now includes images, so you can share an image when you share an image.

• Twitter feed also now displays emojis, so you can share your emoji when you share an emoji.

• When your cart was empty, it was throwing a JS error that didn't affect anything. Now there's no JS error, and this still shouldn't affect anything.
• Homepage featured product section's "add to cart" button respects the quantity selector's personal bubble now.

July 21st, 2017 - v7.3.0

• Changed all range settings to sliders in theme editor.
• Fixed issue with homepage slideshow cropping.

June 29th, 2017 - v7.2.7

• Fixed issue with home page slideshow height with no text content.
• Fixed issue with the wrong variant displaying on the product page.

June 22nd, 2017 - v7.2.6

• Fixed issue with Shopify Pay icon not appearing.

June 15th, 2017 - v7.2.5

• Added Shopify Pay icon.
• Minor bug fixes.

May 25th, 2017 - v7.2.4

• Fixed issue with image height of home page slideshow.
• Fixed issue with video with overlay section.
• Fixed issue with variant selector.

May 23rd, 2017 - v7.2.3

• Fixed issue with Twitter feed not displaying tweets.

May 18th, 2017 - v7.2.2

• Fixed issue with lagging drawer menu.
• Added in structured data for SEO.

April 13th, 2017 - v7.2.0

• Minor bug fixes.

April 6th, 2017 - v7.1.1

• Added ability to link Image with text section if no text is present but link is.
• Changed external links to open in new windows.
• Fixed issue with sticky header.

February 23rd, 2017 - v7.1.0

• Minor bug fixes.

February 3rd, 2017 - v7.0.1

• Minor bug fixes.

January 16th, 2017 - v7.0.0

• Updated theme with Shopify's Sections.

November 17th, 2016 - v6.1.5

• Minor bug fixes.

October 27th, 2016 - v6.1.4

• Minor bug fixes.
• Fixed issue with sticky header.

October 20th, 2016 - v6.1.3

• Implemented Apple Pay icon on cart page.
• Minor bug fixes.

July 14th, 2016 - v6.1.1

• Fixed issue with product tabs making page jump to the top.
• Minor bug fixes.
• Removed checkout styles.

March 22nd, 2016 - v6.1.0

• Added support for ShopPad apps.

March 8th, 2016 - v6.0.1

• Minor bug fixes.

February 26th, 2016 - v5.3.2

• Edited Customizer settings to comply with Shopify's naming and organization conventions.

December 15th, 2015 - v5.1.10

• Removed 'Powered by Shopify' link in footer.

• Fixed issue with hero background image.
• Fixed issue with contrast module color and images.

July 9th, 2015 - v5.1.8

• Minor bug fix.

July 9th, 2015 - v5.1.7

• Fixed issue with footer background color not changing.

June 26th, 2015 - v5.1.6

• Minor bug fixes.

May 29th, 2015 - v5.1.5

• Fixed issue with variant images not changing.
• Minor bug fix.

May 7th, 2015 - v5.1.4

• Realigned margins on product tabs.
• Fixed issue with customizing the Header font which was causing the slideshow to break.

April 30th, 2015 - v5.1.2

• Fixed issue with contact form not submitting.

April 23rd, 2015 - v5.1.1

• Updated footer "Startup" text to link to pixelunion.net.

April 21st, 2015 - v5.1.0

• Implemented settings_schema.json and removed settings.html.

March 27th, 2015 - v5.0.12

• Fixed issue with dropdown menu on touch devices.
• Fixed issue with Pinterest button on Product pages.
• Minor bug fix.

March 12th, 2015 - v5.0.11

• Fixed issue with extra whitespace in header on tablets.

February 12th, 2015 - v5.0.10

• Minor bug fix.

January 22nd, 2015 - v5.0.9

• Fixed 'Order Now' add-to-cart link.

January 22nd, 2015 - v5.0.8

• Added option for full-width image in full-width feature section.

January 8th, 2015 - v5.0.7

• Fixed bug with hidden header dropdown.

December 19th, 2014 - v5.0.6

• 'Related Products' header now displayed.

December 18th, 2014 - v5.0.5

• Fixed issue with search bar when scrolling and pulling down page in Safari.

December 18th, 2014 - v5.0.4

• Altered featured blog excerpt to be automatic if it is not manually chosen.

December 11th, 2014 - v5.0.3

• Minor bug fix.

December 4th, 2014 - v5.0.2

• Fixed issue with descriptions not displaying on Collections pages.

November 27th, 2014 - v5.0.1

• Minor bug fix.

November 18th, 2014 - v5.0.0

• Added Internationalization support.

October 30th, 2014 - v4.0.1

• Added Instagram Widget.
• Added Product Slideshow template.
• Added Mega-Navigation menu.
• Added Featured Blogs section.
• Added Featured Collections section
• Improved Featured Products section.

October 17th, 2014 - v3.3.1

• Minor bug fixes.

September 25th, 2014 - v3.3.0

• Fixed iOS bug where variants were not loading.
• Fixed 'tap' bug with navigation menu on iPads.

September 12th, 2014 - v3.2.0

• Fixed broken CSS for Checkout.

September 4th, 2014 - v3.1.2

• Fixed issue with quantity field on product pages.

August 28th, 2014 - v3.1.1

• Improved support for shipping calculator.

August 7th, 2014 - v3.0.0

• Added ability to reorder Homepage sections

July 31st, 2014 - v2.4.0

• Fixed issue with currency symbols.
• Improved overall cart functionality.

July 29th, 2014 - v2.3.0

• Added support for line item properties.
• Fixed issue with special characters in labels.
• Fixed issue with Bitcoin logo.
• Minor bug fix.

July 17th, 2014 - v2.2.0

• Fixed issue with images in full-width feature.

July 11th, 2014 - v2.1.0

• Fixed issue with text in full-width feature.

July 11th, 2014 - v2.0.0

• Added highlight video option to full-width feature section.
• Added option to enable Express Checkout.
• Added ability to customize button text in Order Now section.
• Minor bug fixes.

July 10th, 2014 - v1.11.0

• Added "Shopify" option to the newsletter sign-up list.

July 2nd, 2014 - v1.10.0

• Fixed bug stopping product page tabs from rendering.
• Minor bug fixes.

June 26th, 2014 - v1.9.0

• Fixed issue with logo width calculation in Safari.
• Fixed issue with footer share links.

June 25th, 2014 - v1.8.0

• Minor bug fix.

June 24th, 2014 - v1.2.0 - v1.7.0

• Refactoring settings page to make more intuitive.

May 23rd, 2014 - v1.1.0

• Fixed bug wherein currency would switch back to default when switching variants.