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Changelog

What's new in FreshStore

New features, improvements, fixes and guides, newest first. Every entry has its own page and date.

Fixed Stores Templates Products Account Merchants Articles Domains

Improvements and fixes, September 2026

Fixed

  • Sitemaps list every product and page.
  • Bulk actions no longer time out.
  • Product clicks reach the right page.
  • The Categories page loads on large stores.
  • Homepage picks keep your order.
  • eBay results match the visitor's country.
  • AI builds keep enough AI Chips to finish.
  • A plain message when AI Chips run out.
  • Connected shows once a domain works.
  • AI catalogues use your Amazon country.
  • Instant Store copies are cleaner and faster.
  • Per store affiliate IDs stay put.
  • Store buttons always work.
  • Article videos fit on phones.
  • Cart quantities the retailer accepts.
  • Header bar text stays centred.
  • Restarting a plan keeps your free days.
  • Fewer SSL problems when moving domains.
  • One main heading per homepage.
  • The account link opens this store.
  • Savings show only when they are real.
  • A clear message for an expired invite.
  • Readable text on every colour skin.
  • Every hero setting works on every template.

Improved

  • Unsaved changes warning.
  • Deleted pages leave search engines.
  • Choose how images fit in product grids.
  • AI Create resumes from a failed step.
  • Your account and our website share one look.
  • Upload images in the article editor.
  • See a build's AI Chip cost first.
  • Set how many subcategories show.
  • The store admin fits phones.
  • A separate hero image for phones.
  • Affiliate ID fields catch mistakes.
  • Your account works better on phones.
  • Celebrations for store milestones.
  • Tick off launch steps yourself.
  • The not found page keeps your menu.
  • A Contents box on longer articles.
  • An optional back to top button.
  • Filter products by merchant.
  • Hide a category from the menu.
  • More social links.
  • Bigger store cards in your account.
  • Undo and Redo in the content editor.
  • A hero photo with no text over it.
  • Hide any merchant image.
  • Pages declare your store's language.
  • Download your logo and store icon.
  • Announcements inside your account.
  • Store search results stay out of Google.
  • Store Cleaner explains what it removes.
  • Open external links in a new tab.
  • Feature a product from its own page.
  • Lists gain a Deleted tab.
  • An optional affiliate disclosure line.
  • Product embeds can link to the retailer.
  • Buy links are marked sponsored.
  • Better featured products for new stores.
  • A footer logo on every template.
  • Default store icons for each template.
  • Published changes show sooner.
  • Signed in straight after checkout.
New Articles Templates

Article side rail and category intros

Articles now show a side rail with a table of contents, more articles and topics, so readers keep exploring your store. Category pages open with an intro that shows a picture or links to their subcategories. Both work on every template, with nothing to set up.

New Articles Products

Product cards inside articles

Articles can now show product cards inside the text, each one linked to a real product from your store, so readers can go from reading to buying in one click. Articles also get a related products category, which picks the products shown with each article.

New Templates Articles

About You on your store

You can now add your name, a photo and a line about yourself to your store. About You shows beside your articles, so visitors can see a real person picked the products and wrote the reviews. Set it up once and it shows across your store.

Read the guide
New Articles

Import articles from Markdown or HTML

You can now upload up to 20 Markdown or HTML files at once, and each one becomes a draft article in your store. Add front matter at the top of a file to set its title, slug, meta description and categories. Check the drafts, then publish when they are ready.

Read the guide
Improved Products Articles

Better AI images for fewer chips

AI images now come from a newer image model. They look better, arrive in about 15 seconds and use fewer AI Chips than before. For images and logos that need extra polish, you can now pick the High quality option when you generate them.

Improved Products Articles

Faster, cleaner AI writing

AI writing is faster and tidier. It now writes a whole product, a whole category or a set of article topics in one go, keeps links clean, and avoids dashes and health claims in what it writes. You get cleaner copy back sooner, with less to tidy up by hand.

Fixed Stores Products Account Articles Domains Templates Merchants Stats

Improvements and fixes, August 2026

Fixed

  • Store pages no longer wait on slow currency rates.
  • New stores show an installing page, not errors.
  • New template options now reach every store.
  • WordPress sites no longer serve the wrong cached page.
  • You are told when a product import fails.
  • Each store serves its own favicon.
  • Shared articles show their own image.
  • Merchant titles with an ampersand read correctly.
  • Titles and descriptions in Google no longer show stray codes.
  • AI summaries keep their opening quote mark.
  • Rejected SSL certificates are re-issued automatically.
  • Stores behind Cloudflare no longer show a disconnected domain.
  • Domain extensions stay on sale when a registrar is unavailable.
  • Review and fact sheet articles display properly.
  • A new account email no longer breaks WordPress login.
  • Less spam gets through store contact forms.
  • Instant Store builds keep their logo and brand images.
  • The Product Importer retries a blocked page instead of guessing.
  • Renewals use a saved card that works.
  • Product Importer links carry your affiliate tag again.
  • AliExpress search buttons use tracked links that earn for you.
  • Pages you create can be reached, found and deleted.
  • A store's new owner gets their own login.
  • Cached pages show each visitor their own prices.
  • Switching off a merchant keeps a product's own photos.
  • The Review Writer never publishes a blank article.
  • Image conversions no longer fail.
  • Preset placeholder text never shows on a live store.

Improved

  • About page sections have their own switches.
  • A reminder to finish your eBay Partner Network approval.
  • Stores with Store Live off stay out of search engines.
  • The footer can list article titles.
  • Every FreshStore email shares one phone friendly look.
  • You can turn off domain expiry reminders.
  • Logging in to a store from your account is quicker.
  • Store stats and billing pages load faster.
  • Domain registrations are checked before you pay.
  • A warning when your bank refuses your card.
  • Hide any page from search engines.
  • A warning when your Google property misses a store.
  • Sort the articles table by any column.
  • The card form handles 3D Secure checks.
  • Affiliate payout requests show their status.
  • Product Finder searches your store's country first.
  • Richer product data for Google.
  • New stores start with Amazon and eBay on.
  • Instant Stores are ranked by popularity.
New Templates Articles

Pick any page from a link chooser

You can now choose where a link goes from a searchable list instead of pasting an address. Link fields search every page, product and category in your store, and a link set this way follows its target if you rename it, so it does not break.

Fixed Products Stores Merchants Account Stats Templates Domains Articles

Improvements and fixes, July 2026

Fixed

  • Product codes in the Link Importer import from your store's own Amazon country.
  • Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey pound prices display correctly.
  • Logging in to a store from your account always opens the store admin.
  • A store re-created on the same domain starts with clean analytics.
  • Product data for Google uses your store's own country and return policy.
  • The store admin loads even when analytics are down.
  • A category's Add Products search finds products by their visible name.
  • Offer prices no longer overlap the buy button on small phones.
  • The Brands page loads on large stores.
  • Products with only exact match offers now get images.
  • Store preview screenshots no longer miss product images.
  • Design changes reach visitors straight away.
  • Live domains are no longer marked as expired by mistake.
  • Product changes show on your store at once.
  • Clear Cache in your account clears every store cache.
  • A disabled article or product follows its redirect instead of an error.

Improved

  • Each store has its own Store API limit.
Fixed Products Merchants Stores Domains Articles Account Templates

Improvements and fixes, June 2026

  • Fixed: eBay links in the Link Importer could hit a bot check and fail.
  • Fixed: live offer updates stopped refreshing prices. The product CSV export now follows your admin list order.
  • Fixed: category pages hid directly assigned products when Subcategory Products was off.
  • Fixed: Start blank on the create store form kept the suggested store name.
  • Fixed: some subdomain stores could stay offline after setup. They now repair themselves.
  • Fixed: Create Image sometimes attached a stock photo instead of a new AI image.
  • Fixed: the AI Chips remaining figure could be wrong, with a false low balance warning.
  • Fixed: the announcement bar showed as a heading before the page title.
  • Fixed: auto refreshed articles got wrong Updated dates. Dates are now correct, shown before Published, and in the sitemap.
  • Fixed: bot blocking could catch RSS feeds, sitemaps and robots.txt, leaving feeds empty.
  • Fixed: redirects between www and your root domain dropped the page a visitor asked for.
Improved Articles Products

Stock photo search now covers three libraries

Image fields now search Pexels, Unsplash and Pixabay at the same time, so one search gives you more free stock photos to choose from.

When FreshStore picks images for you, it now tries stock photos first and only creates an AI image when no stock photo fits. That keeps your AI Chips for the images that need them.

New Articles

Older articles keep a fresh updated date

Your older articles now stay looking current.

When an article passes a set age, it gets a recent Updated date and is sent to search engines again, so they know to take another look. The original publish date stays as it was. The feature is on by default, so your existing articles benefit straight away.

Fixed Stores Stats Articles Products Merchants Templates Account Domains

Improvements and fixes, April 2026

  • Improved: stores keep serving pages if a background service has a problem, instead of going offline.
  • Fixed: visitor stats on busy stores could be incomplete because the background sync timed out.
  • Fixed: store login, sign up and password pages had no proper titles or descriptions, and the store name did not fill in on account page titles and llms.txt.
  • Fixed: AI image prompts that the safety filter rejected still cost chips. They are now free and retried once with reworded text.
  • Fixed: on some stores the per category Subcategory Products switch did not save. It now works on every store.
  • Fixed: affiliate tracking links longer than 250 characters were cut short.
  • Fixed: small logos looked blurry because they were stretched, and large logos could spill out of the header. Logo uploads now show the recommended size.
  • Fixed: store login links stopped working after you changed your account email.
  • Fixed: some domains showed the wrong registration or nameserver status.
  • Fixed: Clear Cache did not refresh settings and header scripts, and could get stuck on Clearing.
New Articles

Choose article image types and fallback products

You can now choose which types of image AI creates for your articles, so each article gets only the images you want.

Articles can also show random products from your store when none are related to the article. Readers then always see products they can click, instead of an empty space at the end of the article.

New guide Guides Templates Products Articles

New guides, March 2026

Read the guide
New Articles

Create every article in a category at once

You can now write all the articles in an article category with one click.

Open an article category and click Create All Content. FreshStore then creates the full set of articles for that category in one run, instead of one article at a time. It is the quickest way to fill a new blog section, and you can still edit each article afterwards.

Improved Articles Products Templates

More realistic AI images across your store

AI images in your store now come from a newer image model. You get more realistic lighting and textures, images that fit your niche better, more variety from one image to the next, and faster results.

The upgrade covers every place FreshStore creates images for you: articles, products, categories, homepage heroes and logos. You create images the same way as before.

Fixed Stores Account Products Articles Merchants Templates

Improvements and fixes, August 2025

  • Improved: visitors now see a short confirmation message when they add a product to the cart.
  • Fixed: some stores were suspended while their subscription still had paid time left.
  • Fixed: category RSS feeds listed the wrong products.
  • Fixed: disabled article categories still appeared on the storefront.
  • Fixed: longer Amazon tracking IDs were refused in settings.
  • Fixed: PNG files would not upload as the store icon or logo.
  • Fixed: links shared on social media showed visitors a verification page.
  • Fixed: store pages sometimes showed the wrong results for searches and category filters.
  • Fixed: storefront popups stopped working.
Improved Articles Products

Sharper AI images from a new model

AI image generation now uses a newer image model. Images for your products and articles come out sharper, more relevant to the subject, and more consistent in style across your store.

Nothing changes in how you create them: use the same image tools as before and the new model is used automatically.

New Articles

Lock articles so AI leaves them alone

You can now lock articles and article categories. A locked item is skipped by AI updates, so content you have written or edited by hand stays exactly as you left it.

Unlock it again whenever you want AI to refresh it. It is useful for your best performing articles, where every word has been chosen with care.

Improved Articles

Keep working while AI images generate

AI images are now created in the background. When you ask for new images, you can carry on editing or move to another page while they generate, instead of waiting on the screen.

The images appear in your store as soon as they are ready, so a big batch of images no longer holds up the rest of your work.

New Articles

Write several AI articles at once

The AI Article Writer has been rebuilt so you can create several articles at once.

It suggests topic ideas, lets you set an SEO keyword, categories and an author, and adds images automatically or uses one shared image across the batch. Products from your store can be embedded in each article, so readers can go straight from the content to the products.

Read the guide
New Articles

Write a review article from any product link

You can now turn any product link into a full review article with the Product Review Writer. Paste a link to a product, including ClickBank products, and it writes a complete review ready to publish in your store.

It is a fast way to promote products you have not imported as store items, and to add helpful buying content to your niche.

Read the guide
New Articles Products

Turn any store product into an article

You can now write an article about any product already in your store with Product Booster. Pick a product and it writes a unique article about it, focused on helping readers decide to buy, ready to publish.

Use it to give your best products extra content and more ways for search engines and readers to find them.

Read the guide
New Articles

Show an author on your articles

You can now show an author on your articles. Set a default author for the whole store, or choose a different author for each article.

You also decide what appears with each article: the author, the date and its categories can each be shown or hidden. A named author helps readers trust your content.

New Products Articles

RSS feeds for every category

Every product category and article category now has its own RSS feed.

Use a category feed to share just one part of your store, for example to post new products from one category to social media automatically, feed a newsletter tool, or let other sites pick up your latest articles. Feeds update as you add new products and articles.

Read the guide
New Articles

Find niche keywords with AI Keyword Research

You can now research keywords for your niche without leaving your store. The new AI Keyword Research page suggests lists of keywords around your niche or a topic you enter, so you can plan articles, categories and product pages around what people actually search for.

Use the ideas as article topics, or as the SEO keyword when you write with the AI Article Writer. The guide walks through each option.

Read the guide
Fixed Articles Products Stores

Improvements and fixes, November 2024

  • Fixed: brand pages and brand aliases did not work as expected.
  • Fixed: AI content was sometimes regenerated when it should not have been.
  • Fixed: updated images did not always show straight away.
  • Fixed: product imports sometimes failed.
  • Fixed: editing articles failed on stores with lots of content.
  • Fixed: problems on the store search page.
  • Fixed: duplicate products appeared in Special Offers.
New Stores Articles

Choose your store's countries and AI language

You can now choose which countries your store serves and the language its AI writes in. Visitors get a country menu to pick their country, and your AI content, from articles to product text, is written in the language you choose. Set both in your store settings.

Read the guide

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