Before you customize your theme
Before you customize your theme, it's a good idea to do the following tasks:
- Duplicate your theme
to create a backup copy. This makes it easy to discard your changes and start again if you need to.
Edit your theme settings
Steps
- From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
- Find the theme that you want to edit and click Customize.
Different types of pages have different theme sections. When you first open the theme editor, the settings for the home page are shown. To access the settings for other pages, select the page type from the top bar drop-down menu:
The theme editor toolbar is divided into Sections and Theme settings.
You can use sections to modify the content and layout of the different pages on your store. You can use theme settings to customize your store's fonts and colors, and make changes to your social media links and checkout settings.
Sections
Sections are customizable blocks of content that determine the layout of your online store. Each theme includes static sections and dynamic sections.
Static sections
Eg: Header & Footer Section
Static sections are always in specific locations on your online store. You can edit static sections, but you can't rearrange or remove them. Each type of page on your online store includes different static sections.
Dynamic sections
You can add, rearrange, and remove dynamic sections to customize the layout of your home page. Each theme has a unique set of dynamic sections to choose from.
Shopify Dynamic sections now only support for Homepages.
Change page to customize sections
From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes
- Find the theme that you want to edit and click Customize
Different types of pages have different theme sections. When you first open the theme editor, the settings for the home page are shown.
- To access the settings, select the page type from the top bar drop-down menu:
The theme editor toolbar is divided into Sections and Theme settings.
Next, let's explore how to configure our theme with built-in Sections and Theme settings
(New to Shopify? Please refer to this to get knowledge of what Sections and Theme settings are)