Section settings, control by control

Select a section and its options open on the right. Every section uses the same set of controls, so once you know these you know all of them.

The three tabs

A section only shows the tabs it needs; with one group of options there is no tab strip at all. Some controls appear only once another is set — the Feature image position dropdown, for example, appears after you choose a feature image.

Content controls

Text box — a single line: a heading, a button label, a price.

Text area — several lines of plain text, for a subheading or a description.

Rich text — a small word processor: bold, italic, lists, links, headings. Used by Rich Text and by FAQ answers.

Switch — on/off, applied immediately.

Number — a plain number box. Some have a minimum (a product count cannot go below 1) or a step.

Dropdown — a fixed set of choices. Where a dropdown offers Theme default, that empty choice is meaningful: it means “whatever the theme and your Appearance settings say”.

Colour — a colour swatch beside a text box. Click the swatch for the picker, or type a hex value such as #111827. Clearing the box returns the section to the theme’s colour.

Range — a slider for percentages, such as an image overlay.

Lines of text — a box where one per line becomes one item; used for things like search categories and rotating messages.

Image

Click Choose image to open your media library.

In the dialog: search by filename, scroll and press Load more for older files, or drag files onto the drop area to upload — Drop images to upload. Click an image to pick it, then confirm. Remove clears the field again.

Image list

Sliders, banners and logo strips take a list of images. Each row is one image:

• The thumbnail — click it to swap the picture
• The link, or No link
• 🔗 — opens the link editor for that image
• 🗑 — removes it
• ⠿ — drag to reorder; the order here is the order on the storefront

Add image appends one, and you can select several files at once.

Link

A link is two parts, a type and a value:

A Link text (optional) box appears where the section does not already supply its own label.

Products

Product sections use a two-tab picker.

Pick products — search your catalogue and choose products by hand. They show in the order listed; drag to reorder.

By rules — the section fills itself, and keeps filling itself as your catalogue changes:

• From categories — pick categories, set a maximum per category in the small box beside each, and choose Newest, Oldest or Random
• From brands — the same, per brand
• Featured products only — restrict to products you flagged as featured
• Fill with any products — top up with anything else if the rules do not return enough
• Limit — the total cap for the section

Both tabs keep their contents. The tab you are on is the one the storefront uses, so you can prepare a hand-picked list and switch to it later.

Categories and brands

Sections that show categories or brands ask first:

• All categories / All brands — everything, capped by Maximum to show
• Pick specific — a searchable picker; the cap no longer applies

Left unset, a section with a saved selection keeps showing it, and every other one shows everything.

Repeating items

Testimonials, FAQ entries, services, stats, features, pricing plans and slider slides are all repeaters. Each item is a collapsible card: click the title to open it, ⠿ to drag it, 🗑 to delete it, and the Add … button at the bottom to add another. The card’s title comes from the item’s own name or title field, so the list stays readable.

Menu

Header and footer menu elements offer a menu picker, listing the menus you built in Menu Builder. See menus, headers & footers.

Code

Custom HTML and HTML Content Slider use a code field. The panel shows the first few lines and a line count; Edit code opens a full-size editor. (The Custom CSS boxes elsewhere are plain text areas, not this editor.)

The dialog has two modes for HTML:

• Code — a real editor with line numbers and folding
• Visual — edit the rendered result directly: type over the text, apply bold, italic, underline, headings, lists and links

Both edit the same content and switching keeps your changes. Apply puts them into the section; Cancel throws them away. Nothing is saved until you press Apply — the builder does not autosave while the dialog is open.

Layout controls, shared by nearly every section

Advanced controls

Hide on mobile and Hide on desktop are added to every section automatically, on every kind of page. Together they are how you run a different layout on phones without building a second page.

Product card options

Every section that shows product cards carries the same card controls:

Content — Max products, Slider mode, Show add-to-cart, Show buy-now, Hide price, Show discount tag, Hide ratings, Hide brand, Hide quick view.

Colours — card background, card border, title, price, sale price, add-to-cart background and text, buy-now background and text, discount tag background and text.

Set them once per section. They do not change the product itself, only how its card looks here.

When a section shows an error

Some sections cannot render empty, and say so: “Add at least one slide.”, “Heading text is required.”, “Add at least one product or selection rule.”

While any section is in that state:

• the row shows a red ⚠ and the toolbar reads N to fix
• Publish is disabled
• Save draft refuses, with “Fix N section(s) before saving.”

Fill in what is missing, or delete the section. Autosave also pauses, so fix it before you close the tab.