Updating Tambour

New versions of Tambour come through the Shopify Theme Store. Shopify reviews each one before it reaches your admin.

Install an update

When an update is out, a notification replaces the version number on Tambour’s card on your Online Store page.

1. Click the notification.
2. Click View release notes to see what changed.
3. Click Add to draft themes. The new version appears in Draft themes as Updated copy of Tambour.
4. Preview the copy and check the pages you rely on most: a product, a collection, the cart.
5. Click Publish.

Your live theme stays as it is until you publish the copy, so there’s no need to duplicate it first. A store holds up to 20 themes, so delete an old draft if you’re at the limit.

What carries over

Shopify copies everything you set in the theme editor: theme settings, the sections and blocks on each page, templates you created, app blocks and embeds, and wording you changed in the content editor.

Code edits are different. If you or an app changed Tambour’s code and the edits don’t clash with the update, Shopify brings them across, and the copy’s card says so. If they clash, they stay in your old theme and you copy them over by hand. Shopify’s Updating themes covers that case.

Some small updates arrive without a copy. Shopify applies a release in place only when it changes no setting, section or block and nobody has edited the theme’s code.

Version numbers

Tambour is at 1.0.0. The first number goes up when a release removes or changes something you set up, the second when it adds a section or block or changes how one looks, and the third for fixes. The release notes list every version.