About v6.2 release
Additional information on recent Broadcast updates
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Additional information on recent Broadcast updates
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We've made several thoughtful adjustments to the Quick Add button's functionality in version 6.2, focusing on visibility, customization, and control over the mobile experience.
Improved mobile visibility: To ensure your product images always take center stage, the Quick Add button on mobile devices will now consistently appear below the main product content on the Product Detail Page. This prevents the button from overlapping your visuals, leading to a cleaner presentation and easier interaction for your customers on smaller screens.
Enhanced color customization: You now have distinct color options for the Quick Add button on desktop. For mobile views, the button will automatically adopt a clear outline style, utilizing the Text color selected within your theme's color settings. This approach provides customization flexibility for desktop while maintaining a consistent and optimized look on mobile.
Mobile display control: Recognizing that every store has unique needs, we've introduced the ability to disable the Quick Add button specifically for mobile devices. Suppose you prefer a more streamlined product page experience for your mobile visitors. In that case, you can now easily hide the button on mobile viewports while keeping it active for desktop users via the theme settings.
How to configure:
Theme settings > Product grid, the Quick add section contains the settings:
Version 6.2 enhances the Cart Drawer with flexibility and refinement, focusing on providing you with greater control over typography and visual presentation.
Expanded typography controls: A key update is the addition of Text size settings across multiple elements within the Cart Drawer. You can now fine-tune the text size for:
Products block (item details)
Title
Cart message
Free shipping bar
Each of these settings pulls from your theme's established Body text size options, making it easier to maintain visual consistency throughout your store.
Cart Message Alignment: Alongside the new text size option, the Cart message now also includes Text alignment settings. You can choose between left and center alignment to best match your design preferences.
Simplified Free Shipping Bar Styling: We've streamlined the styling options for the Free Shipping Bar. The previous gradient background option has been replaced with a straightforward solid Color setting for easier customization. The Text size control mentioned above has also been added here.
We've introduced more intuitive and flexible ways to add and manage button layouts within the Image banner and Slideshow sections, moving away from workarounds and towards dedicated controls.
New: 'Side-by-Side Buttons' Block - We've added a new block specifically for creating horizontal double-button layouts. Previously, achieving this look required adding and configuring two separate 'Button' blocks. This dedicated block simplifies the setup and provides a single place to manage two buttons displayed side by side.
'Single button' Block - Now has a full-width option. With the introduction of the 'Side by Side buttons' block, we have enhanced the standard button block. The original Button block is now named Single Button and features a Full-width setting, making it easy to have a single button span the entire available width of its container:
Image banner & Slideshow: The new "Side by side buttons" block and changes to the "Single button" block are available in the "Image banner" and the two "Slideshow" sections.
You can now add MP4/MOV videos directly to your Slideshow section in Broadcast 6.2. We've added a video block to display looping videos from your Shopify content storage. This update brings more dynamic content capabilities to your storefront, offering a powerful new way to engage visitors right from the homepage.
Add a "Video" slide to your slideshow alongside "Image" slides. The Video slide has customization options to help the text and call-to-action buttons stand out.
The new video slide is available in the 'Slideshow (Nested)' section and not in the legacy version.
We've added global button size settings to the Theme settings in Broadcast 6.2:
You can now set the size for all Small, Medium, and Large buttons throughout your store with these global settings.
The Add to cart button on the Product detail page can now show the price inside the button:
This is a global setting that applies to all products.
How to configure:
Theme settings > Product form. The Add to cart toggle can be found there.
To enhance the visual organization and readability of multi-column text layouts, version 6.2 introduces a simple yet effective display option for handling rich text columns in sections.
Improved Separation: We noticed that, depending on screen size and content length, text in adjacent columns can sometimes appear too close together, which affects readability. To address this, we have included a vertical divider with width and line settings.
This option adds an optional, subtle vertical line between the columns, providing clear visual separation. This ensures your columns remain distinct and your content is neatly organized and easy to read.
Add more context and detail to your color options directly on the product page! Broadcast 6.2 introduces the ability to display unique text descriptions associated with specific product color variants using Shopify's metafield system. This helps customers understand the nuances, materials, or special features associated with each color choice.
This feature utilizes a standard Shopify variant metafield. When a customer selects a product variant on the storefront, the theme automatically checks if that specific variant has a text metafield defined with the exact namespace and key: theme.color_description. If this metafield exists and contains text, its content will be displayed dynamically on the product form, typically near the variant selectors, providing context for the chosen color.
Watch this video walk-through on how to create the required custom variant metafield:
Define the Metafield: In your Shopify Admin, go to Settings > Custom data > Variants. Add a new definition.
Set the Namespace to theme.
Set the Key to color_description.
Choose a Content type of Single-line text . Give it a clear name, such as "Color Description," and a description for your reference. Save the definition.
Add Content to Variants: Go to the specific products in your Shopify Admin. Edit the variants and locate the "Metafields" section at the bottom. Add your desired descriptive text into the "Theme Color Description" metafield for each relevant variant. Save the product.
This metafield is checked on a per-variant basis. If your product has multiple options (e.g., Color and Size), you must add the appropriate color description text to every combination that should display it. For example, if you have 'Red' in 'Small', 'Medium', and 'Large', you need to add the Red description text to the theme.color_description metafield for the Red-Small variant, the Red-Medium variant, AND the Red-Large variant.
Siblings: This color description feature integrates seamlessly and works correctly with the theme's Siblings display logic for variants.
Example Use Cases: You can use this field to specify things like "Vibrant, non-toxic dye," "Limited edition Spring color," "slightly metallic finish," or "Matches our Cerulean Blue bag collection."
This feature offers a great way to provide valuable, targeted information about color options right where customers are making their decisions.
We've refined the visual styling for variant selectors in Broadcast 6.2 to provide a more prominent hover state over variants to help make the selection process more intuitive for your customers:
This refreshed design dynamically uses your theme's existing Text color setting (configured under Theme Settings > Colors, Color scheme) to style the key indicators for these selected and hovered states. This helps maintain visual consistency with your overall brand typography settings.
For additional examples and to try Broadcast for free, visit our demo stores and download the latest version of Broadcast:
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.
