Hey yall,
I am trying to set up a second product page as it’s a must folk are be able to navigate to either of the 2 product pages from the home page.
Now I just started out, but can’t find the way to go about it. At first I had thought it would be a simple copy paste thing or set up a blank page and add the same kind of features as the default product page. But when adding and editing a page I can only select ‘featured products’ from the standard content. I guess I am missing something here.
Some tutorials just refer to copying the page by setting up a new template in editing mode. I had kind of hoped I could do without coding for the first period. Is getting into the code the only way to set up a 2nd products page? Is there no standard products page to launch besides the default one?
Hi @TalahasiBigDog ,
I am not sure if I understand you well. You want to have a page that has a link that would navigate the customer to either of the products from your home page or separate page? If so, then yes, you will need to create a template for your page and this will require some coding.
Other option. In your page, you can use the featured product for one product and add another featured product section for the second one. Note, this only work on Shopify 2.0 themes.
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How do I know which template and section are associated with the page I want to copy? The tutorials I am looking at all refer to older directories like product.details which is not a file in current theme.
Also, how to tell when you need to change something in the code? Is there a specific rule for this or a pattern or whatever? In the tutorials I found something is changed when copying the template code(product.details), but the code from product.json looks very different. So how do I know when the code needs to be adjusted?
@TalahasiBigDog ,
When you say template, it is the layout of the page. Shopify has several templates as you can see in the Shopify code editor. Each templates accepts sections.
You can open your theme editor by going to your Admin store and click “customize.” You can change the layout by changing the “home page” at the top of the theme editor. You can also add a page there.
When creating a template, you have to choose which template you want to duplicate. You can use product template or page template. The name would be [template].[name of template], ex. page.example. If your theme is using a “.liquid”, then it will not be a “product.json.”
This is more technical for you to ingest, I would suggest ask someone with more knowledge to do this for you
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I see your point. Thing is I just want to learn and know what kind of tool I am dealing with if I was to build a store on Shopify. It seems there are perfectly good tutorials out there, but outdated. I need to get my head around this system in a way I can understand. Really curious at that!
Why is there no option in theme customization to add a product section? Would also seem like a simple way to build a second product page, no?
I am not really sure what are you trying to obtain. Creating an new template is good if you are trying to customize the section attached to it