Page Templates, multiple of same sections

Store Design

Topic summary

A developer returning to coding after 10 years is working with Shopify’s paid Editions theme and encountering issues with page template customization.

Core Problem:

  • When adding the same section multiple times to a page template (e.g., adding {% section 'dynamic-image-with-text' %} four times), editing one instance affects all duplicated sections simultaneously
  • This prevents creating unique content for each section instance

Specific Use Cases:

  • Attempting to add custom slideshows with different page titles across multiple policy/contact pages
  • Wanting multiple Image-with-text sections with different content on the same page

Attempted Solutions:

  • Created custom page templates (Test, Contact) separate from default
  • Duplicated section code and added numbers to differentiate them
  • Noted that duplicating sections didn’t affect homepage elements using the same sections

Current Status:
The issue remains unresolved. A second user has commented experiencing the same problem, but no solution has been provided yet. The discussion appears to be seeking guidance on whether sections need to be individually duplicated with unique identifiers for each template.

Summarized with AI on November 17. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
1

Hi there, I’m just getting back to coding after 10 years, and switched to Shopify from Wix.

I am using the Editions theme, so it is a paid, 3rd party theme. Store is https://brokenneedle1.myshopify.com/. It’s live but not at all done. I had my WIX tethered to my domain, so no one is technically looking for it.

I’ll try to explain this as best as I can. I am trying to make page templates with sections from my theme. I watched a couple videos, and am a little familiar with the theme, as all the tutorials are for different themes, so I sort of know how it’s adjusted.

I have a couple text pages (policies, shipping, about, inquiries) and contact form pages. I am using the Slideshow section in my theme to add a photo at the top, and wanted to have the page title go across the slideshow. Some of the pages can have the same photo, but they’d have different titles.

Right now I just have a Test page template that I made, a contact page template, and the default page template. I was experimenting adding sections in them to make them better than the Shopify page setup in the admin. In my new Test page template, I wanted to add a couple different Image-with-text sections, so I added {% section ‘dynamic-image-with-text’ %} a couple times in the page.test.liquid (under Templates). 4 times, to be specific. All 4 sections showed up when I went to edit the theme, but when I went to edit one, it edited ALL four. So I’ve duplicated the code for the dynamic-image-with-text Section and added numbers to the duplicates to have them different elements.

I also noticed this problem between the slideshows on the Test and Contact page template. So I duplicated the dynamic-slideshow section and added dynamic-image-with-text to Contact, and dynamic-image-with-text2 to test.page.liquid template.

Do I need to duplicate and add a different dynamic-slideshow section to each template if I want a different image or text overlay for the page title?

Is this how it should be done? I noticed it didn’t affect any of my Home page elements that used the same sections.

Some photos below.

Image-with-Text sections duplicated in test page template
Image-with-Text sections duplicated in test page template1440×765 119 KB

slideshow section duplicated to be different from Test Template
slideshow section duplicated to be different from Test Template1440×765 107 KB

Image-with-Text sections duplicated
Image-with-Text sections duplicated1440×765 93.9 KB

Image-with-Text sections not duplicated in test page template
Image-with-Text sections not duplicated in test page template1440×765 117 KB

Image-with-Text sections not duplicated
Image-with-Text sections not duplicated1440×765 61.4 KB

Conact Page
Conact Page1440×765 135 KB

Test Page
Test Page1440×765 108 KB

2

Did you find out how to fix this? I have the same problem.