Paid theme: Way to get WSYWIG editor to show up on page?

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Hi there,

I have purchased a Shopify theme from ThemeForest and it is designed in a way where the standard WSYWIG page editor does not show up anywhere on the page. Is there a simple way to make this work? I want to keep the other elements on the page as defined in the template (which is why I’m not simply creating a new page). I just need the flexibility to add custom content (text & images) to several pages throughout the site.

I am not a liquid developer so if this is complicated, I am happy to be pointed in the direction of some professional help.

Site: https://buddysbakery.ca/

Theme: https://themeforest.net/item/bready-bakery-cakery-food-template/22312550

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By WYSIWYG do you mean the theme designer/editor https://shopify.dev/themes/tools/online-editor ?

Or are you trying to create rich text content and need to be using the admin to do so? https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shopify-admin/productivity-tools/rich-text-editor

If it’s about the theme designer this doc talk about it but there’s a ton more to it than the overview glosses over

https://shopify.dev/themes/tools/online-editor#integrating-your-theme-with-the-theme-editor

You paid $25 for a cheap theme of which they have to sell hundreds of times to pay off before even making a profit, fully integrating|fixing a theme like that has a similar scale of cost.

If a theme was not made to integrate with the native editor that is a very advanced process akin to almost making an entire theme from scratch.

If you need quality of life features to manage your stores theme and content buy a quality theme.

If you really need to pursue this integration with a fourth party theme contact me at paull.newton+shopifyforums@gmail.com with a budget.

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Hi Paul, Thank you for taking the time to respond.

I just want the Rich Text Editor to show up on the page so I can insert some additional text/photos to the top of the page. The “About” page to be exact.

For whatever reason, this (yes, cheap) theme does not have the Rich Text Editor section in the Liquid Template file and I don’t see how to create or add this with my somewhat limited liquid coding skills.

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It could be as simple a using content or description properties on resources:

{{ resource.description }}
where a resource is collection,product,or page and rte is shorthand for Rich text editor

And for policies policy.body https://shopify.dev/api/liquid/objects/policy#policy-body

https://shopify.dev/api/liquid/objects/product#product-content

https://shopify.dev/api/liquid/objects/page#page-content

https://shopify.dev/api/liquid/objects/collection#collection-description

But often you may need to create CSS at the theme level for that content the theme may not be handling properly.

You would want to check some of the free themes handling of the .content properties and styling around and in the .rte class

And not RTE content but something you’ll want to check that exists in the is Meta SEO page_description https://shopify.dev/api/liquid/objects/page-description

If that’s no there then other base features like schema or others are also probably missing and the quality of the theme isn’t cheap it’s garbage.

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Thanks, @PaulNewton for your help. I was able to fix my issue with your solution.

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