Every store on Apex runs the latest version. Nothing to install.
Version 1.15.1
- Hero banner: the description and buttons follow the words' alignment, so centred words have centred buttons; the scroll hint no longer sits on the buttons when the words are at the bottom
Version 1.15.0
- Two new sections for the homepage: Product pair (two products side by side, half the page each) and Collection panel (a panel of words beside a collection's products)
Version 1.14.0
- Footer: lay it out with blocks (menus, text, a newsletter sign-up, social links, payment methods, contact details) in 2 to 5 columns; policies and the copyright line stay at the bottom
Version 1.13.0
- Product cards show a product's colours as swatches; a colour with its own photo shows that photo on the card
Version 1.12.0
- Hero and image banner: an exact height, as a share of the first screen
- Heading size (Fonts) scales the theme's heading sizes up or down across the store
Version 1.11.1
- Product page: Add to cart can take a full-width row
- A collection with no photo of its own shows its first product's photo in collection tiles and cards
- On the live store, an image block or tile with no photo is left out (the editor still shows where it goes)
- Default trust promises no longer state delivery times or a return window the store didn't set
Version 1.11.0
- The hero and the image banner can play a background video from Files over their photo (muted, looping, with a pause button); the photo shows first, and stays for visitors who prefer less motion or save data
Version 1.10.0
- New shared sections: Collection tiles (photo tiles into collections, 2–4 across, a sideways row on phones) and Image banner (a photo across the page with words and one link, as many as six)
Version 1.9.0
- The hero's words can sit at the top, middle or bottom of the photo (`vertical_position`)
- A featured collection shows the collection chosen (it showed the catalogue whatever was chosen), or the newest products
- Layout blocks read in list order when some name their cell and some don't
Version 1.8.1
- The add-to-cart button's words can be set (Product section: Add to cart button text)
Version 1.8.0
- A promo banner on the homepage now shows, in this theme's announcement type and on its own colours
Version 1.7.0
- The collection page renders from the theme document: the collection itself is a section, and the store's own sections go around it
Version 1.6.0
- The product page renders from the theme document: the product and its reviews are sections, and a featured collection, rich text or store reviews can go around them
Version 1.5.0
- Cart, search and 404 render from the theme document: the store's own sections around the cart, the search and the page-not-found message, each of which is now a section (movable, restyleable, its words editable)
Version 1.4.0
- Custom pages render from the theme document: a page template with the page's own section and room for sections around it
- Rich text and image with text sections, in Apex's type, on the homepage and custom pages
Version 1.3.0
- Feature: Verified customer reviews with star ratings, review histogram, and a verified-buyer badge
- Feature: Post-delivery review invites so real buyers can rate what they bought
- Feature: Reviews section on the homepage and a reviews block on every product page
- Feature: Store Journal (blog) with a homepage section and /blog reading pages
- Feature: Social gallery section for a curated grid of brand images
- Feature: Promotional banner and lookbook sections are now editable in the theme editor
- Feature: Reorder and show or hide any homepage section, with instant live preview
- Fix: Live preview now updates on first load instead of only after a save
- Fix: Clicking a section in the editor highlights it in the preview
Version 1.2.0
- Performance: Server-Side Rendering (SSR) for instant page loads
- Performance: Parallel data fetching with Promise.all() - eliminates waterfall
- Performance: Pages load under 3 seconds (was 9+ seconds)
- Performance: Font preloading with next/font/google - no 404 errors
- Performance: Route transition progress bar (TopLoader)
- Feature: Improved Google Fonts picker with better previews (150 fonts)
- Feature: Enhanced font rendering on preview and live stores
- Feature: Improved image quality for hero banners (quality 92%, 2400x1600)
- Feature: SSR data pre-fetching for all store pages
- Feature: Server components for layout and pages
- Feature: Optimized client components with Suspense boundaries
- Fix: Scrollable theme settings panel for better UX
- Fix: Countdown timer now displays correctly in header
- Fix: Font selection reflects correctly on stores
- Fix: Next.js 15 async params/searchParams compatibility
- Fix: Eliminated jerky multi-phase loading
- Fix: Only user-specific content loads (no default replacements)
Version 1.1.0
- Performance: Added skeleton loading for smoother page loads
- Performance: Parallel API fetching for faster data loading
- Performance: Font preloading to eliminate font flickering (FOUT)
- Performance: Optimized CSS with responsive container padding
- Feature: Button style customization (radius, padding, colors)
- Feature: Google Fonts integration with 1000+ fonts
- Feature: Product card settings in theme editor
- Feature: Real-time preview updates for all theme changes
- Fix: Consistent font application across all components
- Fix: Improved image upload with compression
- Fix: Layout shift prevention during loading
Version 1.0.0
- Initial release with luxury design system
- Hero banner with customizable text and images
- Featured products grid with quick view
- Newsletter signup section
- Announcement bar with countdown timer