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.
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:i
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)
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
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. The theme now support multi dynamic sections:
