Updating Fine Print

We release new versions of Fine Print through the Shopify Theme Store. Shopify reviews each release before it reaches you and delivers it to your admin. Depending on what a release changes and whether your theme’s code was edited, you install it yourself or Shopify applies it for you, as described under Automated updates.

Check your version

In your Shopify admin, go to Online Store and click the version number on Fine Print’s theme card. When an update is available, a notification takes the place of the version number.

Install an update

1. Click the notification to open the details dialog.
2. Click View release notes to see what changed.
3. Click Add to draft themes. The new version appears in Draft themes with its name prefixed by Updated copy of.
4. Preview the updated copy and check the pages you rely on most.
5. When it looks right, click Publish.

Your published theme stays as it is until you publish the updated copy, so you don’t need to duplicate it first. A store can hold up to 20 themes, or 100 on Shopify Plus, so delete an old draft if you’re at the limit.

What carries over

Shopify copies everything you changed in the theme editor to the updated copy:

• Your theme settings
• The sections and blocks on each page, with their settings
• Templates you created
• App embeds and app extensions
• Wording you changed in the content editor

Code edits work differently. If you or an app changed Fine Print’s code and the edits don’t conflict with the update, Shopify includes them. The updated theme’s card then says whether your code edits were included. If they weren’t, they stay in your old theme and you need to copy them across yourself. Shopify’s Updating themes page covers this case.

Automated updates

Shopify applies some updates to your theme in place, without a draft copy. This happens only when the release doesn’t remove or change any setting, section or block, and nobody has edited your theme’s code. Shopify describes automated updates as fixes for bugs or security issues that don’t change how your store looks, its settings or its content. Afterwards, a notification takes the place of the version number, and View release notes shows what changed. If your theme’s code has been edited, the update arrives as a notification you install yourself, as above.

Version numbers

Fine Print versions have three numbers, such as 1.0.3, the current version:

• The first number goes up when a release removes or changes something you set up, such as a setting, a section or a block.
• The second number goes up when a release adds a section or block, or changes how an existing one looks or works.
• The third number goes up for fixes that don’t change what you can set.

Release notes

Every version has release notes, and the same notes open from View release notes in your admin. When a release removes a setting or changes how one works, its notes say so and tell you what to check after you update.

We don’t release on a fixed schedule. Shopify also sets a minimum gap between updates to a theme.