Athens Shopify theme – Athens preset
Athens
Moderately active Highly rated hardware

Athens Shopify theme

Athens preset

Created by Truly Fine Pixels

Athens is built specifically for hardware, tools, and equipment shops that need to organize large, complex catalogs, with multilingual and RTL support for wider markets. The Shopify theme's 51-plus sections cover a mega menu, product filtering and sorting, swatch filters, quick buy, a slide-out cart, and a stock counter.
Source Shopify Theme Store Official
★★★★★
★★★★★
5.0 · 80 reviews · 100% positive
PRICE
$ 320,00 USD
PRESETS
5 styles

Independently reviewed by the eDIY editorial team

How fast is Athens?

Google PageSpeed Insights scores for the home page, out of 100

In our October 2026 test, the official Athens demo scored 66/100 on mobile and 97/100 on desktop. On mobile, LCP was 7.6s, CLS 0.00 and Total Blocking Time 256ms.

Theme demo store

Official Athens demo, home page
66 /100
Mobile
Needs improvement
97 /100
Desktop
Good

Tested Oct 2026 · Google PageSpeed Insights lab data

MetricMobileDesktop
Largest Contentful Paint 7.6s 1.1s
Cumulative Layout Shift 0.00 0.00
Total Blocking Time 256ms 4ms
Speed Index 4.5s 1.1s

The 8 live stores we tested averaged 62/100 on mobile and 91/100 on desktop. Average mobile LCP was 9.3s and CLS was 0.00. These are complete production stores, so the numbers cover more than the theme itself.

Live stores average

Mean across 8 stores running Athens
62 /100
Mobile
Needs improvement
91 /100
Desktop
Good

Tested Oct 2026 · Results include each store's apps, images, tracking scripts and customizations

MetricMobileDesktop
Largest Contentful Paint 9.3s 1.3s
Cumulative Layout Shift 0.00 0.02
Total Blocking Time 300ms 93ms
Speed Index 5.9s 2.3s

Per-store results

8 live stores · tested Oct 2026
Crystal Quest Water Filters
crystalquest.com
Mobile 39
Desktop 79
Andersen Hitches
andersenhitches.com
Mobile 69
Desktop 95
Crowd Control Warehouse
crowdcontrolwarehouse.com
Mobile 33
Desktop 87
Candy Funhouse US
candyfunhouse.com
Mobile 62
Desktop 99
Fly Me Flag
flymeflag.com
Mobile 62
Desktop 89
Remedy's Nutrition®
remedysnutrition.com
Mobile 79
Desktop 99
Advanced Materials and Lab Equipment Supplier
msesupplies.com
Mobile 67
Desktop 82
Podium Archer
podiumarcher.com
Mobile 84
Desktop 96

Features

Built-in features listed on the Theme Store.

Cart and checkout

  • Cart notes
  • Gift wrapping
  • In-store pickups
  • Pre-order
  • Quick buy
  • Sign in with Shop
  • Slide-out cart
  • Sticky cart

Customer accounts and sign-in

  • Account menu

Marketing and conversion

  • Trust badges
  • Stock counter
  • Right-to-left
  • Recommended products
  • Recently viewed
  • Quick view
  • Quick order list
  • Promo tiles
  • Promo popups
  • Promo banners
  • Product badges
  • Press coverage
  • In-menu promos
  • FAQ page
  • EU translations (EN, FR, IT, DE, ES)
  • Customizable contact form
  • Cross-selling
  • Countdown timer
  • Blogs
  • Back-in-stock alert
  • Age verifier
  • Quantity pricing (Shopify Plus)

Merchandising

  • Animation
  • Before/after image slider
  • Color swatches
  • High-resolution images
  • Image galleries
  • Image hotspot
  • Image rollover
  • Image zoom
  • Ingredients or nutritional information
  • Product options
  • Product tabs
  • Product videos
  • Shipping/delivery information
  • Slideshow
  • Usage information
  • Combined listing (Shopify Plus)

Product discovery

  • Back-to-top button
  • Breadcrumbs
  • Collection page navigation
  • Enhanced search
  • Mega menu
  • Product filtering and sorting
  • Recently viewed
  • Recommended products
  • Sticky header
  • Swatch filters
55 features

Athens ranking and satisfaction

Position among all Shopify themes
#47 of 1349
Position among Shopify themes for "hardware"
#1 of 14
Overall satisfaction based on all reviews
100% positive

Release history

LATEST VERSION
v6.7.0
Released July 30, 2026
Moderately active

Athens has received 6 updates in the last 12 months.

Releases in 12 mo 6
Total releases 39
First release July 8, 2022
v6.7.0 FEATURE

A fresh coat of paint on Prism, nine new languages, six new sections, a mini cart that converts, and more than two dozen bugs exterminated.

Changed

  • Updated/redesigned “Prism” preset.

Added

  • New “Flexi - Expandables” section (with images and page content).
  • New “Offers” section.
  • New “Color swatches” section.
  • New “Video gallery” section.
  • New “Browse by type” section.
  • New “Custom bundles” section.
  • New languages: Czech (cs), Finnish (fi), Norwegian (nb), European Portugese (pt-PT), Turkish (tr), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Simplified (zh-CN) & Traditional (zh-TW) Chinese.
  • Mini cart: Cross sells.
  • Mini cart: Free shipping progress bar.
  • Main and Featured product sections: New “Score” block.
  • Main collection grid section: Row layout and shopper-facing layout switcher.
  • Main collection & search sections: Setting to change how many filters are expanded by default (0 (all collapsed) to 25 (all expanded)).
  • Theme settings: Open social media links in a new window.
  • Theme settings: Page width setting: Default vs Wide container (146rem - 163rem).
  • Mini cart: Empty cart collections recommendations.
  • Mini cart: Order notes.
  • Various sections: 3XL and 4XL heading sizes.

Fixes and other improvements

  • Bulk order section crashes when "Remove all" is clicked.
  • Cart/Minicart: Remove item from cart event carries wrong variantId.
  • Cart/Minicart: Setting quantity to 0 triggers cart:item-quantity-update instead of cart:item-remove.
  • Cart/Minicart: Note was sent as line quantity, and was lost on footer re-render.
  • Cart page: the note field was indented.
  • Main product section blocks: All blocks now have placeholder content.
  • Main collection grid section: Selected products for comparison were unchecked when user-selected layout changed.
  • Header section: "Redirect to cart page after adding a product to cart" wouldn't work.
  • Header section: Cart total price would get hidden.
  • Header section: Cart icon would revert back to the default.
  • Slider layout card stacking flash on resize past desktop breakpoint.
  • Fixed theme-editor.js issues (rte/video wrappers etc).
  • Consolidated heading-size scale and labels into one shared set.
  • Event "collection:product-filters" wrongly fires for any "page" substring, instead of the "page" pagination parameter.
  • Guard against missing minicart for custom layouts.
  • Event "toggle-mini-cart" opens but isn't closing the minicart.
  • Output secure og:image URL and strip stray whitespace from page title.
  • Duplicate id="mini-cart-toggle".
v6.6.0 FEATURE

A visual overhaul on the Spoke preset, a brand new section, and a multitude of fixes that address minor and major issues here and there, make this release a must-have!

Changed

  • Updated “Spoke” preset.

Added

  • New “Product details” section.
  • Main and Featured product sections: Signup block: Include price and SKU in the email, for products without variants.
  • Main and Featured product sections: Signup block: Include currently selected variant's information in the email.
  • Main and Featured product sections: Variant picker: Separately control Out of stock and Invalid variants visibility.
  • Main and Featured product sections: Content drawer button: New “full width” style.
  • Header section: Shopify accounts custom element.
  • Header section: Custom action icon.
  • Header section: Typewriter effect in search.

Fixes and other improvements

  • Header section: Header search hovers and dropdown length improvements.
  • Header section: Improve inline expansion setting (main menu).
  • Rotating text bar: Fixed text size issue.
  • Main and Featured product sections: Suppress abort error from console, when quickly clicking on variants.
  • Main product section: Expandable blocks: Details and Table blocks wouldn't force other blocks to close (when “Collapse other expandables” was enabled).
  • Collection template: Empty collection: Improve spacing between title and button.
  • Key figures section: Slot machine-style animation effect.
  • Slideshow section: Text placement location paddings.
  • Various sections: Fixed layout issues when sections with mosaic layouts had more than 8 blocks.
  • Sections with buttons on the top right: Keep them on the right if there are no titles.
  • Theme settings: Fix Pill-shaped quantity inputs styles.
  • Product cards: Add divider character between Vendor and SKU.
  • Product cards: Metafields styles improvements.
  • Product cards: Loading/fetchpriority attributes to card snippets and parent sections based on section.index.
  • Rename all sections prefixed with "Flexi -" to "Flexible".
  • Move window.* variables from header.liquid into head-scripts.liquid.
  • Reduce requested sections (getSectionsToRender) from Section Rendering API (limit 5).
  • CSS nesting improvements.
  • Various minor improvements.
v6.5.0 FEATURE

Four new sections, a new mega menu, and a lot of other additions, fixes, and improvements, make this version a big step forward for the theme.

Added

  • New “Seasonal banner” section.
  • New “Key figures” section.
  • New “Flexi - Banner Mosaic” section.
  • New “Flexi - Features” section.
  • Header section: Add new “Vertical tabs” mega menu (section-level setting).
  • Collection tabs section: Tabs can now display an image instead of text, and is possible to auto-rotate them.
  • Tabbed collection lists section: Tabs can now display an image instead of text, and is possible to auto-rotate them.
  • Main and Featured product sections: Add setting to disable preselection of variant/options.
  • Banner list section: Add setting to make the section full width.
  • Scrolling elements: Add scrolling direction setting.
  • Filters section: Add additional collections setting to allow for up to 100 values.
  • Various sections: Sections with "overlay" settings now allow either a gradient or a solid color.
  • Cart template: Display store credits.
  • Theme settings: Product cards: Add metafield display on product cards.

Changed

  • Link index section: Rename to "Flexi - Link index".
  • Contact form section: Rename to "Flexi - Contact form".

Fixes and other improvements

  • Main 404 section name was not translatable.
  • Image hotspots section: Quantity picker's icon issue on product card.
  • Cart and Minicart: An error would be thrown when the coupon code was enabled on the cart but not on minicart.
  • Collection and Search templates: Active filters' X icon misaligned.
  • Main password section: When logo is svg, custom width is ignored and the logo is always full width.
  • Slideshow: 2 buttons: Mobile center alignment not working.
  • Main and Featured product sections: Gallery background color (between border and image) issue.
  • Countdown timer section: Product on mobile issue.
  • Duplicate ajax search html IDs (due to header-search being included twice).
  • Hotspots sections: Input quantity field was misaligned on the compact product card.
  • Typo in some breakpoint bounds (was 1119 instead of the correct 1199).
  • Map section: Fixed undefined index issues when geolocation would fail.
  • Improve Product metadata block on the main, featured, and comparison product sections.
  • Most sections with product cards: Show SKU setting should work independently (depends on Show vendor).
  • Cart template: Shipping calculator: Make sure only "---" is disabled instead of the first choice (it may be a country).
v6.4.1 FIX

This hotfix release fixes an issue with the variant picker.

Fixes and other improvements

  • Main and Featured product sections: After changing variants and adding a variant to the cart, the minicart wouldn't open.
  • Introduce fetchpriority for PDP main image.
v6.4.0 FEATURE

Unparalleled customization possibilities. Fine-grained control over every aspect of your store, both on desktop and mobile. This update has more improvements under the hood than you'd care to know about.

Added

  • Main and Featured product sections: New “Badges” block.
  • Main and Featured product sections: New “Product collections” block.
  • Main and Featured product sections: Add gallery thumbnail position setting.
  • Main and Featured product sections: Variant picker button size and shape settings.
  • Main and Featured product sections: Details block: Support more metafield types, as well as list types.
  • Main and Featured product sections: Text block: Add custom icon settings.
  • Main and Featured product sections: Buy buttons block: Add color settings.
  • Header section: Mobile and Textual (Text & Slogan) Logo.
  • Cart and minicart: Show product price discount.
  • Map section: Add coordinates support.
  • Most sections: Add Mobile Top/Bottom spacing settings.
  • Introduce text for customizable sale percentage text.

Fixes and other improvements

  • Accessibility improvements.
  • Featured product section: Variants block would leave an empty space when the product had no variants.
  • Main and Featured product sections: Invalid default color_scheme values on some blocks.
  • Main and Featured product sections: An error would get thrown when changing variants, when the source variant had an expandable Table or Details block but the destination variant didn't.
  • Header section: Mega menu - Featured: Add setting to disable text title.
  • Enable more sections in Header/Footer section groups.
  • Performance improvements (Lighthouse suggestions).
  • Layout files improvements (theme.liquid, password.liquid, gift_card.liquid).
  • Slideshow section: Self hosted video wouldn't play if there was only one slide.
  • Undefined variable image_sizes in card-product-swatches.liquid
  • Double all custom_icon resolutions so they are clearer on retina.
  • Collection and Search templates: Keep filters in the same state (expanded/collapses) to avoid layout shifts.
  • Collection and Search templates: Fixed AJAX pagination error.
  • Modernize loading of Google maps (fix deprecation warning).
  • Main Collection section: Sidebar menu: Text overflow.
  • Header section: Mega menu item would break if the same menu item was assigned to two mega menu blocks.
  • Some HTML tags wouldn't close properly.
  • Collection lists section: Fixed wrong reference to description metafield, and documentation link.
  • Sliding panels section: Overlay background setting mislabeled as Mobile image.
  • Call to action section: Video background position issue.
  • Subscriptions app styling.
  • Mobile dock section: Mobile dock is now always below any footer content.
  • Cart section: Shipping calculator fields and button couldn't be translated.
  • Cart template: A JS error would get thrown when both the card and the mini cart were displaying the coupon code field.

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What merchants say about Athens Shopify theme

We know about 80 reviews · showing 6

Merchant sentiment summary

AI

80 of 80 reviews are positive. Merchants most often praise the responsive, friendly support team, the theme's flexibility and customisation options, and its suitability for large catalogues. No real pattern of criticism appears in the reviews; a few suggest small wishes, such as live chat on the support page.

Generated from all 80 Theme Store reviews ·

Positive 80 · 100%
Neutral 0 · 0%
Negative 0 · 0%
Highly rated

Athens has received 20 reviews in the last 12 months.

Reviews in 12 mo 20
Total reviews 80
First review

Really happy with Athens. It looks clean and professional, and it’s very easy to customize. There are plenty of sections and the theme works especially well with larger catalogs. Support was also quick and helpful. Definitely recommended!

M
MINUTA PROFILI
Sep 7, 2026

This is a fantastic theme, really fit-for-purpose. I've managed to develop a beautiful ecommerce shop for my client and they love it. Thanks for all your support too, that made a big difference.

D
DZ Sports Ltd
Sep 2, 2026

A really well-built theme design that looks brilliant from the front-end and and is super easy to merchandise and manage from the back. The support team via email are super prompt and details in their guidance and replies too, which has been great. Glad we purchased and very happy to have chosen a TFP theme.

F
Fixings Store
Aug 25, 2026

The Athens theme is top-tier. It offers tons of flexible sections and custom blocks, making it effortless to design a polished, professional storefront. Tweaking the layout is super intuitive, and the setup documentation is clear and thorough. To top it off, customer support is incredible quick to respond, warm, and exceptionally helpful. Fantastic theme created by a stellar team. Highly recommend …

P
Pool & Hot Tub Depot
Jul 23, 2026

The Athens theme is fantastic. It's packed with flexible sections and blocks, making it easy to build a professional store. Customisation is intuitive, and the documentation is excellent. The support is even better—fast, friendly, and detailed. A brilliant theme backed by an outstanding team. Highly recommended!

S
Smarks
Jul 9, 2026

This theme is great. The staff helped us adjust the pricing and button layout, and the service was excellent.

M
Moiswell
May 13, 2026

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