April 8, 2024

Shopify Store 2.0 Themes or Vintage Themes - Which is Better?

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Stefonie BarrowsSEO Strategist & Digital Marketer
Shopify

Shopify, one of the most widely used e-commerce content management systems (CMS), along with Squarespace, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Wix, and Adobe Commerce (formerly Magento), has made it easier than ever for aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners to start selling goods and services online. A content management system (CMS) as robust as Shopify allows everyday people to build and deploy secure, functional, and user-friendly websites in a no-code manner to showcase their products and businesses to a global audience.

Shopify provides a wide array of themes, available in the Shopify Theme Store, for merchants to design and develop their business websites. A theme controls the organization, features, and style of your online store. Different themes have different styles and layouts and offer a different experience for your customers (Shopify Help Center, 2021). The Be Yours Shopify theme, Impact theme, and Debut Shopify theme are a handful of the most popular, widely-used Shopify themes available to merchants.

Vintage Themes

Vintage themes use the previous architecture for themes and only receive security updates. With these themes, businesses are limited in their customization, and third-party app integrations may also prove difficult.

Vintage themes have two types: sectioned and non-sectioned. Your theme architecture version determines the file types that make up your theme, the ways that you can customize your theme, and the ways that apps can integrate with your theme. (Shopify Help Center, 2021)

2.0 Shopify Themes

Online Store 2.0 Themes provide your business with a number of new features and benefits. One benefit is the ability to customize EVERY page of your website. Vintage themes provide you with the freedom to customize your home page only, but with an Online Store 2.0 theme, your imagination can run wild. If a Shopify merchant is looking for greater creative control and access to new Shopify features, tapping into Online Store 2.0 themes is your best bet.

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Accessing these new features can be a little tricky, but not impossible. Here are a few ways that you can upgrade:

Download an Online Store 2.0 theme from the Shopify Theme Store: Update the look of your store and get access to new features by downloading a new theme from the Shopify Theme Store.

  • Download a new version of your theme: If your theme offers an updated version that uses Online Store 2.0, then you can add the latest theme version to your store manually.

  • Migrate your current theme manually: Add Online Store 2.0 functionality to your theme by migrating your current theme templates to the new architecture. (Shopify Help Center, 2021)

For additional information on themes, visit the Shopify Help Center at the links below:

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/themes/managing-themes/updating-themes

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/themes/managing-themes/upgrading-themes#migrate-manually

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