Arctos Shopify theme

Arctos 2.0.1 is a maintenance update that keeps header behavior consistent across published storefront languages and refreshes the shipped Arctos storefront templates with the latest responsive layout, color, collection, and product-page configuration.

Added

• Enabled the All-products card in the collection-list template using portable default content and styling, with support for its custom-background presentation.
• Added the required static product-card and contact-form name, email, description, and action blocks to the one-column and two-column product-grid templates.

Fixed

• Fixed inside-header positioning on localized homepages such as /fr, /es, and other published language roots. Localized homepages now follow the same homepage settings as /.
• Fixed header and top-bar specific-page targeting across localized URLs. Generic paths apply across languages, while paths beginning with a published locale root remain locale-specific.
• Fixed mega-menu connections when top-level navigation labels are translated. Mega menus now use Shopify's stable link handle first, with the rendered label retained as a compatibility fallback.
• Fixed desktop header layouts that could be displaced by longer translated navigation labels. Menu regions can now shrink and wrap without pushing the logo, localization controls, or utilities out of position.
• Fixed the simple blog-listing template to use article-aware pagination instead of the generic page-pagination block.
• Preserved explicit color-scheme pairings for non-inheriting cards, groups, and sections across blog, collection, lookbook, about, and product-grid templates.
• Improved reveal-component lifecycle cleanup by releasing focus listeners and observer-queue entries when components disconnect.

Changed

• Made mega-menu connection names and header and top-bar specific-page lists language-neutral configuration values, preventing Translate & Adapt entries from changing structural header behavior.
• Clarified the English, French, and Spanish Theme Editor guidance for mega-menu connections and language-aware specific-page paths.
• Refined homepage mobile presentation with the intended slideshow fullscreen behavior, content alignment, responsive padding, section height, and inline video mode.
• Standardized the product-information grid so the countdown spans the full row while the feature group and buy buttons each occupy half a row across the standard and alternative product templates.
• Changed the shipped Arctos product-card transition from slide to fade.
• Removed inactive saved values from the article template when their controlling carousel, margin, mobile-image, or custom-typography settings are disabled; this cleanup does not change storefront rendering.

Arctos 2.0.0 is a major update that expands merchandising, product discovery, editorial storytelling, and mobile customization while improving accessibility, responsiveness, and storefront performance.

Added

• Important: Added Featured collection, Featured product, Featured products slideshow, Popup, and Shop the Look split sections with flexible layouts and responsive controls.
• Added Sticky content, Testimonial listing, and Google Maps blocks for richer landing pages and storytelling.
• Added a modular top bar with announcements, countdowns, menus, social links, localization controls, and mobile visibility options.
• Added new Classic and Bento article layouts with configurable featured media and modular sharing, comments, previous and next article navigation, and related article blocks.
• Added a child-collection template and expanded the existing collection quick-filter, pagination, and responsive grid controls.
• Added product-card ratings, video playback, variant-aware media and pricing updates, expanded variant-picker controls, and separate mobile quick add and quick view settings.
• Added mobile-specific images and videos across supported sections and blocks, with improved fallback behavior when mobile media isn't selected.
• Added global reduced-motion, animation-on-scroll, magnetic interaction, button icon, page-heading spacing, product-card rating, and quick-action color settings.

Changed

• Important: Version 2.0.0 is delivered as a manual update because it changes section and block structures, setting IDs, setting ranges, and template composition. Review the unpublished updated copy and its affected templates and settings before publishing. Custom CSS or custom code that targets previous markup or class names might need to be reapplied.
• Rebuilt article templates around the new Article detail V2 section and modular article blocks.
• Redesigned the header and mega menu with improved sticky and transparent states, tabbed mega menus, responsive navigation, and keyboard behavior.
• Expanded the existing product-media experience with configurable grid columns and gaps, thumbnail positioning, pagination placement and backgrounds, media corner radius, backgrounds, spacing, and additional mobile controls.
• Reworked quick add and quick view with faster preloading, variant-aware updates, accessible dialogs, mobile drag handles, and swipe-to-close behavior.
• Updated collection and search pages with more responsive filtering, sorting, result tabs, pagination, and layout controls.
• Standardized carousel navigation, pagination, autoplay, drag, and responsive controls across product, collection, article, testimonial, icon, and Instagram listings.
• Expanded Shop the Look with configurable hotspot interactions, separate hotspot and tooltip colors, carousel or static product layouts, and responsive height controls.
• Updated product cards and variant pickers to keep media, prices, badges, availability, and swatches synchronized as shoppers select variants.
• Refreshed buttons, inputs, icons, typography, color schemes, dividers, hover effects, focus styles, and responsive spacing across the theme.
• Improved image sharpness on large and high-density displays through larger responsive image sizes.
• Updated the included Arctos templates and presets to use the new sections, blocks, and responsive defaults.

Removed

• Removed the legacy Article detail section, article sidebar, and table-of-contents blocks after replacing the article layouts with Article detail V2.
• Removed the legacy Inside cover blog-post template and product modal template; quick view now uses the new dedicated quick-view architecture.
• Removed the Product info custom, Store locator detail, Testimonial product, and standalone public Marquee icon V2 block types; the private nested marquee-icon block remains in use.
• Removed built-in theme locale files for Danish, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. English, French, and Spanish remain included.

Fixes and other improvements

• Improved keyboard navigation, focus management, focus visibility, dialog focus trapping, pagination semantics, form labels, and minimum touch-target sizing.
• Improved contact-form validation, field state handling, autofill behavior, error feedback, and accessible notifications.
• Improved product media, quick add, quick view, cart drawer, predictive search, menus, filters, and localization controls on mobile devices.
• Improved reduced-motion behavior and disabled or simplified nonessential motion for shoppers who request it.
• Improved page and interaction loading through responsive images, deferred loading, and lighter mobile animation behavior.
• Improved carousel stability, including pagination synchronization, resize handling, disabled controls, looping marquees, and content-reveal behavior.
• Fixed variant selection, sold-out swatches, product pricing, badges, add-to-cart loading states, dynamic checkout states, and product-form updates.
• Fixed header transitions, mega-menu states, background-media fallbacks, video autoplay and controls, sticky layouts, and mobile viewport sizing.
• Fixed collection and search filtering, pagination limits, grid transitions, empty results, and Theme Editor previews.
• Added configured product suggestions to the empty search-page state and made active classic quick filters visually distinct.
• Translated Theme Editor preset categories across the included English, French, and Spanish schema locales.
• Fixed cookie-banner positioning and timing, popup layout flashes, mobile safe-area spacing, and dialog close behavior.
• Preserved component styles in partially inserted Shopify-rendered responses after Shopify introduced automatic CSS subsetting for {% stylesheet %} tags.
• Standardized merchant-editable sample contact domains to arctos.store and corrected misspelled artors.store references.
• Fixed effect-setting independence so disabling page transitions removes only between-page effects while preserving the one-time intro cover, OS-level reduced motion keeps an enabled custom cursor active with direct 1:1 tracking and immediate visual state changes, and the mobile subheading font-family control applies its selected value.