How to create a new Template
In this article, we will take a look at how to create and set up your own templates in the theme and connect them to pages in your Shopify Admin.
Shopify software allows creating templates for:
product pages;
collection pages;
blogs pages;
article pages;
webpages.
To create a custom template, you can follow the listed steps:
Step 1:
Start by creating a template in the theme editor. Press the top drop-down menu and choose a page for which a new template will be created, e.g. Collections:
Step 2:
Then, press the button “Create template” and edit the fields in the popup:
write the unique name for the template in the “Name” ;
the new template will be based on the one you choose from the “Based on” drop-down;
hit the button “Create template”:
Step 3:
Now, we need to go to Shopify Admin and assign a template to a page.
Depending on the page for which you created the template, choose a template in the “Theme template” drop-down:
Products - Shopify Admin -> Products, choose a product:
Collections - Shopify Admin -> Products -> Collections, choose a collection:
Blog posts - Shopify Admin -> Online Store -> Blog posts, choose a blog:
Blogs - Shopify Admin -> Online Store -> Blog posts, choose a blog, and in the “Comments” block, press on the blog:
Then, choose a template on the opened page:
Pages - Shopify Admin -> Online Store -> Pages, choose a page:
Step 4:
Finally, you can go back to the theme editor, select a template and add specific content to the given template:
Press the “Add section” button to add any section from the Theme sections list. Read details on how to set up each section here.
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