Ascent Shopify theme

This update helps your store look more polished, communicate products more clearly, and provide a smoother shopping experience across key pages.

What's New

• Better support for modern search and AI shopping experiences, helping customers and discovery tools understand your products, collections, blog posts, and brand content more clearly.
• More design options for section headings, including decorative icons, gradient heading styles, watermark text, shadows, and borders.
• A refreshed Countdown section with a cleaner timer style, optional icon, caption, description, and improved mobile layout.
• More flexible image and content sections, including improved image gallery cards, richer icon sections, and better banner styling options.
• More card styling options for product sections, including optional borders and improved spacing.

Improvements

• Improved Mega Menu image cards with a stronger visual overlay, description text, and a cleaner arrow button.
• Improved Mega Menu image cards in the mobile drawer so heading size, text effect, and description display consistently with the desktop setup.
• Improved product page payment and security area, with a clearer layout for trust badges and payment icons.
• Improved blog cards with cleaner summaries, better spacing, and a clearer read-more action.
• Improved cart, search, filters, badges, social icons, and recommendation cards for a more consistent storefront feel.
• Simplified the Shop the Feed modal: "View details" now goes straight to the product page instead of opening a quick view drawer.
• Added background image and height controls to the cart page banner.

Fixes and Polish

• Improved how store content is presented to search engines and AI-powered discovery tools.
• Refined mobile countdown sizing to prevent crowded layouts.
• Refined mobile search banner heading size for better readability.
• Refined the mobile quick view drawer so it opens vertically like a bottom sheet.
• Improved borders, shadows, rounded corners, and spacing across many storefront areas.
• General visual polish and stability improvements across the theme.

A focused update introducing Shopify Customer Accounts support, scroll-driven sticky image cards animations, interactive mouse parallax on highlight features, and a range of bug fixes and performance improvements.

Added

• Added Shopify Customer Accounts login support in the header — a new account menu setting lets merchants configure the customer account menu directly from the theme editor
• Added scroll-driven stacking animation to the Sticky Image Cards section — previous card images scale down and fade out as the next card scrolls into view, on both desktop and mobile
• Added mouse parallax tilt effect to the Highlight Features section center image — the image subtly tilts and shifts with cursor movement on desktop

Changed

• Optimized Highlight Features section — improved layout and interactive behavior
• Optimized Search — enhanced search experience and recommendations
• Improved mobile heading font sizes globally — headings now scale down appropriately on small screens
• Tab panel max height capped at 30rem to prevent overflow on tall screens

Fixes and other improvements

• Fixed invisible keyboard focus ring on Featured Image links inside Mega Menu
• Fixed slider component multiple bugs and performance issues
• Fixed mobile touch on carousel blocking page scroll
• Fixed product card image collapsing on initial load
• Fixed predictive search JavaScript block-scope error
• Fixed auto-translate GitHub Action failing on concurrent pushes
• General performance and stability optimizations across the theme

A focused update featuring improved forms, enhanced media handling, a new image–text switcher, translation fixes, and overall performance and security improvements.

Added

• Added festive Christmas atmosphere/decorations.
• Added a new Image–text tabs section

Changed

• Improved the product back-in-stock notification form
• Enhanced the contact form
• Optimized product media display

Security

• General security enhancements

Fixes and other improvements

• Fixed Italian translation issues
• General performance and stability optimizations across the theme

Introduces a new Snout preset, enhanced predictive search, and Couple support in the cart, plus performance and security improvements.

Added

• Added Snout preset for pet-focused stores.
• Added Couple support in the cart to handle bundled/paired product additions.

Changed

• Improved predictive search to display more items in search results.

Security

• General security improvements.

Fixes and other improvements

• General performance and stability optimizations across the theme.

New Livique preset and content sections added, with background image support. Headings, external links, and overall performance have been improved.

Added

• New Livique preset.
• New Collage with text section.
• New Video with text section.
• Image with text, Quote, and Sticky image cards sections, now with background image support.

Fixes and other improvements

• Improved heading hierarchy (H-tags).
• Enhanced external link attributes.
• Other general fixes and performance improvements.