Goal: Make the Shopify home page display a grid of all products (like hauntedstarbucks.com/products), with minimal info and each item clickable to its details.
Context: Store uses the Dawn theme (v2.3.0). The author has no collections and wants to avoid a collections overview on the home page.
Proposed approach (reply):
Create a collection containing all products.
In Theme Customize, add a “Featured collection” section to the home page.
In code, change the product card loop from {%- for i in (1..4) -%} to the desired number of products to show.
Issue raised: The author cannot find an option to add a “Featured collection” section on the home page—only a “Collection list” (which shows multiple collections). A screenshot was provided indicating this limitation.
Clarification: Helper asked for the theme; author confirmed Dawn 2.3.0.
Key terms:
Dawn: Shopify’s default free theme.
Featured collection: A section that displays products from a chosen collection on a page.
Status: Unresolved. Open questions include how to enable/add the “Featured collection” section in Dawn 2.3.0 or alternative methods to make the home page render a single collection (all products) via code or template changes.
Summarized with AI on December 24.
AI used: gpt-5.
For some reason Shopify doesn’t let me do this. I don’t want to have my home page be all my collections, I don’t have any collections. I just want it to be a grid of my products so that users can click on each one and see the details. None of the options in the direct site editor can do this so I assume I’ll have to use code.
https://sm3f.myshopify.com/ This is what I have currently. I want the same thing except it doesn’t show any information and is just a small item in a grid like the previously sent website. Thanks.
Create a collection with all products in your store.
Add a section to your home page via the customize option.
Edit the featured collection code by searching for this line: {%- for i in (1..4) -%} and changing the number 4 to the number of products you want to display.
The problem is in step 2. There is no option to put a “fetured collection” on the home page, just to put a list of all collections to select from. I want my homepage to be the collection with all my products like in the site I used as an example in my original post.
