Vanity Theme Store

I've just uploaded a couple of enhancements to theme settings. You can now specify a background image for the site:

You may have also noticed thumbnail images are being shown in the blog page. This is another theme setting, and when checked Vanity will display a thumbnail sized version of the first image in the blog post. Note: the image must be hosted on Shopify (not an external one).

Vanity now has two new theme settings for the cart page: note and agreement checkbox. Specifying a prompt for either of these settings will change how the cart page appears.

Cart Note

To capture additional information on the cart page, you can specify a prompt in theme settings. This note is useful if you want to capture delivery instructions or perhaps a message for a gift item. You can read more about this in the Shopify wiki.

Agreement Checkbox

If you may want to ensure your customers have read and agree to your terms & conditions before checking out, you can specify an "agreement checkbox" prompt in theme settings. This will add a checkbox to the cart page with your prompt, and if the user does not check the box they will not be able to continue through to checkout page.

Vanity now has an alternate template for collection pages called "collection.sidebar". 

This template has the sidebar on the left, and 3 columns for products (instead of 4).

The menu items in the sidebar are automatically created based on the tags used in the collection's products.

To use this layout, go to your collection and select "collection.sidebar" in the Template section.

See a demo.

Vanity now supports specifying the contents of the home page gallery in theme settings.

Read all about it on the Vanity Support forums.

You can now choose between 5 different widgets in the Vanity theme footer. In this page, you can see we are using the Navigation, Contact and Latest News widgets. Other options are a Sign Up Form widget for a mailing list (using MailChimp for example), or a Testimonials widget. You can see examples of the other widgets in by visiting the other Vanity demo stores (available under the Styles menu).

Footer widgets are configured in theme settings.