How to remove Slideshow Pagination on Dawn Theme

Topic summary

Goal: Hide slideshow pagination/arrows (controls) in Shopify’s Dawn theme while keeping auto-rotate.

What worked:

  • Adding CSS to hide controls: set .slider-buttons to display: none. Several users edited Assets > component-slider.css (e.g., around line ~315) and changed .slider-buttons { display: flex; } to display: none; Confirmed for slideshow and featured collections.
  • Initial CSS also worked for the homepage slideshow; auto-rotate remained after clearing cache.

Issues/caveats:

  • Deleting lines in slideshow.liquid was not reliable.
  • Some reported that mobile still shows dots or they reappear on swipe, creating a glitchy look.
  • Changing .slider-buttons globally can impact other components (e.g., removes the announcement bar’s controls, and possibly the bar itself for some setups).
  • Question about changes being overwritten by theme updates remains unanswered.

Suggested refinements:

  • Scope the CSS to a specific section by placing it in that section’s Custom CSS field to avoid site-wide side effects (e.g., on the announcement bar).

Status: CSS-based solutions exist and work for many, but edge cases (mobile behavior, announcement bar impact, update persistence) are unresolved. Attachments show code locations but aren’t essential to follow the steps.

Summarized with AI on December 23. AI used: gpt-5.

Hello. Just copy the code in the custom CSS of the slideshow.