Helix Shopify theme

This update brings new collection and product page templates, three countdown sections under a new Promotions group, and an Arabic storefront, with a round of fixes to mega menus and the header.

Added

• Added new templates for collection and product pages. Each preset includes the templates that suit its style. To use one, open a collection or product in your Shopify admin and choose it under Theme template.
• Added three countdown sections: Countdown bar, Countdown banner and Countdown banner: Split. They sit under a new Promotions group when you add a section.
• Added Arabic to the storefront languages, bringing the theme to 32 for your customers.
• A bundle builder tab can now be opened from a link. Point a link at #tab- followed by the tab title in handle form, such as #tab-summer-set, and the page opens on that tab and scrolls to it.

Changed

• The Divider section now applies its top and bottom padding once. It used to apply them twice, so 100px showed as 200px. If you halved your padding to make up for it, set it back to the size you want.
• Testimonials: Sticky product (custom) now sits under Trust & social proof when you add a section, next to the other testimonials.

Other fixes and improvements

• Fixed mega menus not opening on storefronts in another language, including when the menu item setting had been translated.
• Fixed mega menu banners, the shoppable and video popups, quick view, quick add, cart share and the cart drawer after the first add to an empty cart showing without their styling, after a change on Shopify's side to how theme styles load.
• Fixed a dropdown in the top header row opening behind the bottom row when the header uses two rows.
• Mobile quick links now sit centred, and only scroll once they no longer fit on the screen.
• The mobile menu now closes when a link takes you to another place on the same page.
• In the theme editor, a mega menu held open while you edit it now closes when you hover another menu's dropdown, instead of staying underneath it.

The theme now comes with a fifth preset, prices B2B orders by quantity, docks Shopify's chat into a drawer of its own, mirrors itself for right-to-left languages, speaks 31 languages on the storefront and 21 in the theme editor, with a few fixes along the way.

Added

• Added a Norda preset, the theme's fifth style.
• Added support for Shopify's chat. With the Online Store Chat app installed, the chat opens in a drawer styled like the rest of the theme, and its button keeps clear of whatever else sits at the bottom of the screen.
• Added B2B volume pricing. Business customers see their quantity price breaks, the price per unit, and any order minimum, maximum or increment — on the product page and in the cart.
• Added right-to-left support for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and other right-to-left languages.
• Added 25 storefront languages, bringing the theme to 31 for your customers.
• Added 15 theme editor languages, so section and setting names follow your admin language.
• Added a Collection list: Editorial section. Each collection is a text row — name, product count, arrow — flowing down one to four columns, and the collection image fades in on the row being hovered.
• Added a Full (no padding) width to the Shop the feed section. The feed runs edge to edge while the heading and button keep their page margins.
• Added a Divider group to 36 sections, to the footer rows and to the Marquee block. Switch on a line above or below a section, and choose whether it runs the full width of the screen or stops where the section content does.
• Added a Desktop layout option to the Blog card. Horizontal sets the image beside the text from tablet up instead of above it. Its Ratio now offers Portrait (4:5) and Portrait (3:4) as well. The card also takes Spacer and Group blocks now, so the title, meta, tag and button can be arranged in rows.
• Added a Shapes group to the Icon block: circle, diamond, sparkle and square, all solid.
• Added a Cart count style option to the header Cart, for the Text type. Keep the count in brackets, or set it in a badge that turns from grey to solid as soon as the cart has something in it.
• Added a Show navigation icon option to the Collections with tabs section. Switch it off and the arrow stays out of sight until the collection is hovered.
• Added an Icon style to the Collection tabs section. The tab being viewed is marked with a circle, square or diamond that slides in beside its name.
• Added an Icon style to the blog Tag filter. The tag being viewed carries the same circle, square or diamond marker.
• Added Font and Colour options to the Localization block, next to the font size already there. The country and language selectors can take the heading or accent font, and the heading colour.
• Added a Show price next to title on desktop option to Product cards in the theme settings. The price sits at the end of the title line and drops to a line of its own when the title runs long; card content aligns left while it is on.
• Added the Icon block to the Announcement bar, so a mark can sit beside the announcement text.
• Added five icons to the Other group of the icon library.
• Added a Text case option to the cart blocks. Discount code, Order notes and Shipping estimator take it on their heading, under letter spacing; Order summary takes it on the subtotal row, under a new Typography heading.

Changed

• Shop the feed no longer prints the Other tagged products row when a feed item has a single product. The row listed every tagged product, so it repeated the one already shown in the card above it.

Other fixes and improvements

• Fixed a mega menu opening empty when the pointer reached it from another mega menu by way of a plain menu link — the panel stayed blank and only came back on a reload.
• Fixed the blog card Tag block showing nothing in the theme editor while a blog has no posts yet — it now stands in with a placeholder, the way the title and description do.
• The Icon block now goes down to 6px wide, on desktop and mobile, so an icon can sit beside text as a small mark.
• Fixed the View details button ignoring its own alignment setting.
• Fixed the customer name in the account panel not taking the heading colour.
• Fixed the back-in-stock alert doing nothing when a customer pressed Notify me — the form now confirms the alert was registered.
• Fixed tall images being cropped in the Scrolling hotspots section — the image now scales down to fit the screen instead of filling the column width.
• Fixed the storefront password page hiding the error when the password was wrong — the password box now stays open and shows the message.
• Fixed the header menu dropdown revealing its links out of order once a menu holds more than nine.
• The floating buttons of a popup no longer lift for a floating sticky add to cart. From tablet up that bar is a card in one corner, so buttons in the other corners stay where they are.
• The header set to Scroll up now slides away and back on the same motion as the mobile dock — it no longer waits a moment before leaving, or travels past the top of the screen on its way out.
• On mobile, the sticky add to cart now slides in and out like the mobile dock instead of fading in place.
• Fixed a photo smaller than the product card leaving a gap around itself, and the Fill image ratios not covering the card when a photo was that small.
• Fixed the filter pills doing nothing when pressed — neither removing a single filter nor Clear all had any effect, in the row above the products or inside the filter drawer.
• Fixed a wide table in a product description, such as a size chart, running past the product details and losing its last columns. The table now scrolls sideways on its own, and in Quick view it no longer pushes the size buttons out of the drawer.
• Fixed a block set to fill the height inside a carousel taking the height of the whole slide instead of the card it sits in.

We've added a new Elvara preset, two new sections, hover zoom and new button controls, and a round of accessibility and bug fixes.

Added

• Added preset: Elvara
• Added an Age verification section, with a configurable popup that visitors must confirm before entering the store
• Added a Parallax section that drifts its columns as the page scrolls
• Added underline and embedded button layouts to the Email signup block
• Added a hover zoom for linked images, controlled by a new theme setting
• Added a hover border setting for solid buttons
• Added a color scheme setting to the cart drawer summary
• Added product tooltips to the Shop the look hotspots
• Added an optional image to the header block, alongside its text
• Added a product link to contact form enquiries sent from a product page, so the notification email shows the product and variant the customer was viewing.

Fixes and other improvements

• Important: Fixed the product page showing a price before a variant was selected — the page no longer displays a price that does not belong to any variant.
• Fixed the accelerated checkout buttons not being clickable in the theme editor.
• Fixed quick view and quick add opening on the wrong colour — they now open on the colour the product card is showing.
• Fixed product card badges and rankings disappearing mid-carousel on Safari, and the sticky header losing its background during the same transition.
• Fixed blog cards breaking when an article has no title or no URL.
• Fixed the footer localization dropdown staying open while the page scrolled.
• Improved accessibility: the header and menus are now named as landmarks, tabs and the search suggestions are correctly linked for screen readers, colour swatches are named through their labels, and duplicate element IDs have been removed.
• Improved styling and responsiveness with minor updates across screen sizes, browsers and devices.