A store owner wants to display their featured product’s description directly on the homepage in Shopify’s Dawn theme, rather than requiring visitors to click through to the product page.
Initial Solutions Proposed:
{{ product.description }}<br> tags for line breaksWorking Solution:
The issue was resolved using custom Liquid code that references the specific product by handle:
{%- assign featured_product = all_products["product-handle"] -%}
{%- if featured_product.description != blank -%}
{{ featured_product.description }}
{%- endif -%}
Additional Requests:
The user asked about making the description full-width and displaying multiple swipeable product images (like on the product page). These features would require extensive custom coding since Dawn’s featured product section doesn’t natively support them.
Recommendation:
Consider using alternative sections to mimic the featured product layout, or invest in a theme that includes these features by default rather than custom development.
How to add product description of featured product on homepage in dawn theme?
Hi,
my website is www.sweatfree.co
the password is: sweatfree123
I just have one product on my homepage, so I want the product description to show up on the homepage itself and not have to click “View full details” to have to go to the product page to see the description. I just want the product description right on the homepage after the product.
how do you do it?
thank you!
Hi @SweatFree
So here is a trick that might work.
On the featured product section click add block and add “custom liquid” block.
Inside the block add the following: {{ product.description }}
If it works, it should pull in the product description into the field.
Hope that helps.
Hey I hope you are doing well.
So you want to add Product Description on homepage Featured Product.
I decided to gave you complete solution even it take my 30 minutes.
By default Shopify dawn theme you cannot Show product description. But if you play smartly then you can add it.
First let understand the Sanrio.
Here you can see the featured product. Now by default it does’t show the Product Description.
But you can add it by adding a text block.
First you need to take decision where you want to add Description. It can be under product title or Product price. Let suppose if you want to add under the product price then simply hover under price block and click on add block. Here it is.
After clicking on Add Block now click on text Block.
In the text Block write the product description manually.
After this it look like this.
This is ever simple way to add product description in Dawn theme.
If this was helpful show it by Click on like button and Mark as Solution.
Thanks
Hi @Michael-Thomas I just tried it and saved it but it didn’t work. Any other suggestions?
Could you try with my Solution? My solution will work.
Thanks
Hi @TheScriptFlow the text box doesn’t let you have multiple paragraphs. It is just one block of text so it will not be enough. Any other advice?
That’s odd. I just tried it and it worked. Can you share an image of how you have it set up.
You can
tag for line break where you want. Like I put description like this.
Lorem ipsum
is a dummy or placeholder
text commonly used in graphic design.
Then my output will be.
Lorem ipsum
is a dummy or placeholder
text commonly used in graphic design.
Because I add two times
tag.
I hope this will fix your issue.
Let me know if you need more help.
here is the screenshot. I created a Custom Liquid block within the featured product section and copy pasted what you had said. Then saved it. But it doesn’t show. Anything I am doing wrong? This is all on the home page of Dawn theme.
Ok, give this one a try.
{%- assign featured_product = all_products["usa-canada-long-term-annual-plan-with-refill-option"] -%}
{%- if featured_product.description != blank -%}
{{ featured_product.description }}
{%- endif -%}
If that doesn’t work, I can take a closer look.
Looks like that worked. Happy to help. Feel free to mark the above as solution.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Thank you so much @Michael-Thomas — I think that did it! Two quick follow up questions: 1) is it possible to have the text description take the whole page width and not just be on the right side? 2) Is it possible to have all the pictures/media show up that can be swiped through (like on the product page) and not just one picture?
Honestly your looking at something that involves a lot more custom coding to achieve that since the section doesn’t support any of these so the section would need to be recoded with these in mind.
You might be just better off using some of the other section to mimic the featured product section.
Alternative solution is to get a theme that supports this as sometimes what you pay a dev to code a feature, you could buy a really nice theme that does it already and better.
Fair enough. Thank you still still for all your help — I appreciate it very much! 
Your very welcome @SweatFree
All the best with the store.