v3.1.0（Coming Soon）

This update focuses on AI-ready storefront discovery, richer visual customization, and more polished shopping experiences. Ascent now gives search engines, AI search tools, and answer engines clearer page signals while also adding more flexible controls for banners, cards, countdowns, product sections, and trust-building content.

Added

• Enhanced AI-ready discovery signals across product, collection, blog, article, page, brand, social profile, and sharing preview content

• Added more section header design options, including decorative icons and italic gradient heading effects

• Added optional container shadow and gradient border controls to more sections, including Countdown, Text with icons, Quote, and Search banner

• Added product card border settings to Collection, Featured collection, Related products, and Recently viewed products experiences

• Added background image, banner height, image opacity, and image behavior controls to the Main cart banner

• Added Image gallery block controls for borders, card shadows, optional circular arrow buttons, and improved content positioning

• Added Text with icons controls for full-width layout, container shadow, section border, icon border, and improved mobile carousel display

• Added developer documentation for custom Add to cart buttons, JavaScript cart refresh, and metafields.shopify translation cleanup

Changed

• Redesigned the Countdown section with better defaults, icon selection, caption, heading, description, compact timer cards, improved mobile spacing, and optional shadow or border styling

• Improved Mega Menu featured images with a stronger text gradient overlay, description text, decorative heading line, compact circular action button, and a more consistent mobile drawer display

• Improved product page payment and security layout with better trust badge sizing, payment icon alignment, title icon, and clearer text spacing

• Improved blog cards with cleaner excerpts, a compact arrow button, better horizontal-card typography, and a limit on image badges

• Improved Rich text and related content blocks with better content width behavior, image block sizing, light text options, and highlight stats styling

• Improved section header consistency across many sections, including gradient heading behavior and decorative controls only when the section header is enabled

• Improved cart drawer, search drawer, recommendation cards, mini checkout, pickup availability, filters, active facets, badges, blog tags, social icons, toolbar, and header submenu styling

• Simplified the Shop the Feed modal: "View details" now links directly to the product page instead of opening a Quick view drawer

Fixes and other improvements

• Reduced duplicate or unclear structured signals that could make storefront content harder for AI tools and search engines to interpret

• Fixed layout issues caused by animated content wrappers in several card and glass-style containers

• Refined blur, shadow, border, and rounded-corner behavior across cards, media, banners, product modules, and drawers

• Improved mobile countdown sizing and spacing to prevent overflow in newsletter and section layouts

• Refined mobile Search banner heading sizing for better readability on smaller screens

• Refined the mobile Quick view drawer so it opens vertically like a bottom sheet

• Improved slider/touch behavior for smoother trackpad and mobile interactions

• General UI consistency, visual polish, and storefront stability improvements across the theme