I want to create a custom product template in Dawn 4, but coded by me and not created from the backend. Is that possible? A little dizzy of all the changes in 2.0, but love it so far.
I want to move the product description below the images, but also create a contextual bottom sticky bar (so felt custom liquid within the theme wasn’t enough) with shipping, delivery info etc.
Feels more natural to code a custom template (not even sure that is the correct term anymore with 2.0) to be pickable in the backend. Like “Extended product template” rather than “Default product”.
I don’t want to make hard-coded changes to the main product section. Feels, well ugly.
@LostPer
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That was amazingly friendly and awesome reply. Thank you for that!
I actually figured out how to do it myself. It was a typo on my behalf that didn’t made it work when first testing. So if anyone else is facing this, this is the steps I used.
- Create a new template (in template directory) named product.myname.json
- Copy content of product.json into this new template (replace everything)
- Create a new section named product-myname.liquid
- Change type to match my new section name (in the new template file)
- Save both
- Create a new CSS that I included after the main section product CSS in my new product template (for overrides and make it more future proof for updates)
- Go into admin and pick the new product template on a product
- Start to make changes to the template file and my CSS.
Hope this helps someone