About 6.2 Release

Additional information on recent Palo Alto updates

Mobile menu section

Introducing a new mobile menu section for the header. In Palo Alto, you can now use the mobile menu section to display a rich, modern-designed navigation instantly:

  • Collection images can automatically added without any customization.

  • Sub-menu items have a new, clean design.

  • Easily add your shop logo to the new menu.

  • Plus, new blocks will be coming soon for greater customization.

Customize the mobile menu block with options to choose a menu and text size, toggle images, scale images wide or tall, highlight any menu item with color, and optionally display a tag:

Menu block settings

Video walk-through:

Additional header settings

In this release of Palo Alto, we've added some additional settings for the header:

  • Language selector dropdown

  • Currency chooser dropdown with optional country flags

  • Border color picker

  • Border opacity range slider

Find the new options under the Header settings:

Header settings

Image with scrolling text

Palo Alto has added a new section that features scrolling text over an image banner:

We've combined the powerful Banner Image section with the popular scrolling text feature. This section is optimized to handle scrolling text:

The original Banner Image section is still available and supports split images. The new Image with Scrolling Text section uses one image and offers separate desktop and mobile image options.

Timer and Fit guide blocks

The product template in Palo Alto now includes three new blocks to enhance product page customization further.

  • Timer - Countdown timer to add urgency.

  • Fit guide - Visual gauge to help customers know how a product fits.

Timer block with settings to customize the promotion within the product form
Customize the fit chart within the product form

Here's a video walk-through on how to create a simple metafield for the fit guide feature:

Quantity selector styles

The Palo Alto product form and cart now have two Quantity field styles. You can choose from between the new -/+ style shown below or a dropdown:

To switch between styles, use the Theme settings -> Product form:

Final sale message

With Palo Alto, you can display a Final Sale message to inform your customers of the conditions of a final sale.

Palo Alto can display a final sale message on all sale items with info-text upon hover:

To configure the final sale feature, use the Theme settings -> Product form:

Video walk-through on how to set a custom metafield for the final sale feature:

Final Sale metafield configuration

Reference from the above video:

Final Sale product metafield:

  • Namespace: theme.final_sale

  • Type: True or false

Soft button style

Palo Alto now includes a soft, modern button style to the list of button options:

Combine with colors to see variations of the new soft button style.

Marquee section text updates

We've added a font-picker to the Marquee section in Palo Alto. Now, you can choose any font in your font library for the text message. We've also added a Space between messages slider to customize how much space is shown after messages:

Sticky inline video

Palo Alto now lets you add MP4 and MOV videos to our modern Sticky image cards and Sticky images with text sections:

Sticky image cards - Video support

Paste the video URL from your Shopify files:

Block settings

Click on the files link to open your Shopify Files list, and then use the link icon to copy the URL:

Shopify files

Additional setting options

In this release, Palo Alto has increased the number of heading and text sliders within various sections, and we've added a few more settings to these sections:

  • Split images - Heading/text size options.

  • Grid - Added 'top center' and 'bottom center' content positions and heading/text sizes.

  • Video - Option for two buttons, text 'width' options (narrow, normal, wide), and heading/text sizes.

  • Text columns with images - Heading and text size options.

  • Custom content - Heading/text size options.

  • Overlapping images - Subheading option and heading/text sizes.

  • Shop the look grid - Heading/text sizes.

  • Slideshow - Heading/text sizes.

Additional heading and text sliders
  • Banner - In the countdown timer block, we added an option to display days/hours/minutes/seconds text underneath the digits, similar to the countdown section:

Stacked version of timer block in the Banner section

Try Palo Alto 6.2

For additional examples and to try Palo Alto for free, visit our demo stores and download the latest version of Palo Alto:

Existing customers can update for free. To preserve your live published theme, use the Shopify Update tool. The update tool will download an additional theme to your theme library and only copy the settings from your live theme. This is the safest and easiest method of updating your theme.

Updating your theme

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