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  • About Broadcast
    • Broadcast theme documentation
  • Online Store 2.0
    • The new experience
  • Announcement Bar
    • Free shipping message
    • Text announcement
    • Custom HTML
    • Announcement bar settings
  • Header
    • Header styles
    • Navigation images
    • Sticky header
    • Transparent header
    • Social icons
  • Sections
    • How to use sections
    • Section blocks
    • List of sections
    • Sidebar
    • Split images
    • Before and After
  • Products
    • Tabs and accordions
    • Tab content using metafields
    • FAQ Accordions
    • Upselling with metafields
    • Upselling with tags
    • Swatches
    • Size charts
    • Pre-order products using tags
    • Pre-order using metafields
    • Sale items
    • Free products
    • Product page settings
    • Theme blocks
    • Low inventory message
    • Icon block
    • Accordion section
    • Product ratings
    • Related products
  • Siblings
    • About product siblings
    • How to setup siblings
    • Siblings metafields
      • Siblings color
      • Siblings collection
    • Siblings product setup
    • Siblings block
  • Collections
    • Product badges
    • Product badges with metafields
    • Product filtering
    • Quick add
    • Sub-collections
    • Cutline second line
    • Featured image
    • Collection page settings
  • Popups
    • Cookies consent message
    • Image promo with newsletter
    • Text promo
    • Small newsletter
    • Coupon codes
  • Footer
    • Footer settings
    • Theme blocks
  • Blogs
    • Featured posts
    • Blog pages
  • Blog posts
    • Article page
    • Theme blocks
  • Pages
    • Page templates
    • Creating page templates
    • Page section
  • Settings
    • Loading icon
  • Updates
    • Release notes
    • Check your theme version
    • Download latest theme version
    • Updating your theme
      • Updating from version 1 or 2
      • Updating from version 3
  • Support
    • Contacting support
    • Share preview link
    • Earlier documentation
  • Custom
    • Where to make CSS changes
    • How to remove Shopify credit
    • Collection image spacing
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  1. Updates
  2. Updating your theme

Updating from version 1 or 2

Customers updating from Broadcast versions 1.0.0 - 2.02

When you download the latest version of Broadcast from the Shopify Theme Store, you will be downloading the latest version which is based on Shopify's Online Store 2.0. The new platform is a major update and includes the ability to add sections everywhere. This means sections can be added outside of the homepage page to areas like: Collections, Product Detail pages, Blogs, Pages, Search page and much more.

There is no direct update path as Shopify's new platform has been completely modified, older theme versions are not able to easily copy over theme settings.

We recommend that you download the new theme and build a fresh version of your store using the new tools included in the platform. This may take some time so we recommend after you download the new version, explore all the new sections, blocks and features and take the opportunity to build a new experience for your guests.

You can leverage all your existing photo and video assets, plus all your products, collections, blogs and pages. These are not gone. You can now create a much richer experience and add plenty of promotions and new features throughout the site.

Migrating settings

Migrating settings is not recommend. Due to the many performance improvements including with Online Store 2.0, legacy settings files will slow down your store load times. A fresh theme build is recommended for Online Store 2.0. Consult a Shopify Expert if you require assistance with moving your store from an earlier version to Online Store 2.0.

Future releases based on Online Store 2.0 are much easier to migrate settings. Stores running Broadcast 3.0 and higher can easily copy over settings, sections and blocks from all areas of the site to a newer version.

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