Themes
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. For example, if you're selling spa products, then you might want your online store to feel relaxed and luxurious. If you're selling electronics, then you might want your online store to look energetic and sleek.
Shopify themesoffer the followingadditional features:
- 部分在每一页- Customize the content on most of your online store's pages. Add, rearrange, or removesections and blocksto create unique page layouts.
- Enhanced app support- Install or change apps without touching any code. Add app functionality anywhere in your theme by usingapp blocksandapp embeds. You can browse theapp collectionto find apps that integrate seamlessly with your online store.
- Richer content using dynamic sources- Add dynamic, specialized information to any setting in your theme by connecting the setting to adynamic source. A dynamic source can be a resource attribute or a metafield value.
- Collection filtering- Allow customers tofiltercollections in your store by availability, price, and more.
You cancustomize your theme settingsfrom your Shopify admin by using the theme editor. If your theme doesn't have a setting for a change that you want to make, then you canedit your theme code.
When you make changes to your theme orswitch to a new theme, it doesn't affect the other parts of your account. You can try different theme styles and settings without worrying about the rest of the content in your admin.
All themes (free and paid) from theShopify Theme Storeare optimized for selling online and include the following features by default:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Compatibility | All themes are compatible withOnline Store 2.0and providesections and blocksfor customizing your pages. |
| Store speed | Themes have aminimum store speedof 60, allowing your products, collections, and pages to load faster. |
| Accessibility | All themes have aminimum accessibility scoreof 90 so that your store can be used by everyone. |
| Mobile ready | Themes include mobile responsive layouts, allowing customers to access your store on any device with an internet connection. |
| Discounts | Displaydiscountamounts for items and order in your cart, checkout, and customer order pages. |
| Dynamic checkout buttons | Adddynamic checkout buttonsso customers can quickly buy any product they're viewing. Dynamic checkout buttons can be added to your cart and product pages. |
| Faceted search filtering | Allows customers tofilter productsbased on product availability, price, type, vendor, and other variants. Search filters can be added to your collection and search pages. |
| Gift cards | Display a gift card page with instructions after the customer purchases a gift card. |
| Images for social sharing | Add athumbnail image对哟ur post when you share a link to your store on social media. |
| Country and language selection | Allows customers to select theircountry or regionand local currency on your store. |
| Multi-level menus | Addnested drop-down menus对哟ur store's navigation. |
| Newsletter forms | Add anewsletter signupso that you can collect customer emails to use in email marketing campaigns. |
| Pickup availability | Display whether a product isavailable for local pickupfor customers on the product page. |
| Product recommendations | Display an automatically-generated list ofrecommended productson your product pages so that customers can discover new items. |
| Product ratings | Customize howcustomer product reviewsare displayed on your pages. |
| Rich product media | Addrich media对哟ur product pages, such as 3D models, embedded videos, and YouTube videos. |
| Search box | Display a search box or link for customers to find products and see the results on asearch results page. |
| Selling plans or subscriptions | Display selling plans and subscriptions for customers. These can be added to your cart and customer order pages. |
| Shop Pay Installments | Add aShop Pay Installments banner对哟ur product pages to let customers know that they can pay for their order using installments. |
| Unit pricing | Display a price per unit for products with specific quantities or measurements for stores inGermanyandFrance. |
| Variant images | Addimages to product variantsto allow customers to view each variant. For example, you can display different images for a shirt that comes in multiple colors and sizes. |
For more information on how themes are built by developers, visitBest practices for building Shopify themes.