Changelog

The first public release of Vale, with two presets: Vale and Still.

Added

• Two presets: Vale (beige) and Still (ink, with beige bands), each with its own home page.
• Five languages on the storefront and in the theme editor: English, French, Italian, German and Spanish.
• Shopping tools with no apps: quick view, saved pieces (a heart on cards and product pages, with a Saved pieces page), compare (2 to 4 pieces side by side, from the specification metafields), a quick order list for trade buyers with quantity rules and price breaks, a Pickup availability block, combined listing support, infinite scroll on collections and search, an age verifier and shoppable video.
• 84 sections to add (101 presets), grouped in Add section by what they do, including five heroes, the editorial cover, collection tabs, makers index, lookbook, route stack, a product spotlight and seventeen scroll sections (Lights on, Frame expand, Horizontal gallery, Stacked plates, Kinetic manifesto and more).
• Background video: every hero and twenty other image sections can play a silent Shopify-hosted loop, with the poster image first.
• Scroll effects (Off, Subtle or Expressive): photographs drift in their frames, headlines settle, the ground shifts between light and dark sections and the footer wordmark rises into place.
• Product spotlight, recently viewed, countdown timer (also as an announcement-bar message), before and after slider, image hotspots with notes, store locations and a newsletter popup (off by default).
• Mega menu with picture tiles that fill themselves from your collections, plus hand-picked promo tiles. Country and language selectors in the header and footer.
• Keyboard-first predictive search overlay (⌘K and /).
• Four collection layouts (grid, editorial, catalog list, gallery) with storefront filtering, sorting, quick filter chips and load more.
• Product page with stage or stacked gallery, lightbox and zoom, 3D and video, swatches, quantity rules and volume pricing, subscriptions, pickup availability, gift card recipients, a spec table from metafields, document downloads and a sticky add-to-cart bar.
• Alternate templates: product.minimal, product.story, three collection layouts, and About, Contact, Accessibility, FAQ, Lookbook and Showroom pages.
• Page transitions, scroll reveals, film grain and a preloader, all respecting reduced motion.
• Cart drawer and cart page, customer accounts, journal with topic filter and search, and a WhatsApp or chat link in the footer.