I used a developer to build us a fully custom Shopify store. However nine months on we’re not satisfied with the design and features available in our product pages. So we want to make some big changes.
Is there a way to replace our custom product pages with e.g. Dawn theme’s product page and then adjust the colours etc to match the rest of our site and branding? While still keeping the rest of our custom store the same. Or is it better to stick with what we’ve got, redesign it, and add in the features that are missing.
I’m only a novice when it comes to coding, but have managed to get a heap of stuff done using Cursor and Claude, so willing to give anything a try. Or is this really a job for an actual developer?
Generally, this should be a job for a dev.
Sections from different themes are generally not compatible (unless they are presets/variations of the same theme or themes from Shopify’s own Dawn or Horizon “families” which are also basically presets of those two).
Hard to tell without seeing.
However, there also is a chance that your custom store is built on top of Dawn, so this would make it much easier.
There is a bunch of apps, like Section Store which allow you to add a section which is missing in your theme – those may be helpful too.
That make sense. Is there an easy way to check if the theme is built on top of Dawn or similar?
And I have never heard of Section Store, but I will absolutely check that out. It sounds like it would be super helpful as we’re missing heaps of sections and that’s the main concern/issue/limitation that we’re running into.
Yes it’s a theme transplant, it’s just tedious work as for something like the PDP your basically having to bring in the entire theme.liquid any assets and child snippets etc; and or wire parts to hook up to the existing theme such as re-using CSS variables.
Easier if only using a subset of specific sections and template settings or blocks, otherwise it’s a kitchen sink install.