[4.1.1] - 2022-06-14

Version 4.1.1 fixes a few small bugs

[4.1.0] - 2022-05-06

Added

• Created a Mosaic section to showcase products, collections, and more

• Ability to add a promotional message in the cart and cart drawer

• Block features added to the product page including a size chart, popup text, and icons

• An optional wave design in the footer

• Option to highlight one of your main menu navigation to a color of your choice, best used to change "Sale" to red

• Collection promo blocks to place advertisements throughout your collection templates

• A loading icon setting to show an image while the site is loading

• Ability to add a navigation list to an empty cart or cart drawer

Updated

• Improved upsell functionality to work with metafields

Fixes and other improvements

• Recommended products grid was updated to ensure products per row remain responsive

• Recommended products heading setting now corresponds with inputted text

• Product tabs to work on duplicated product templates

• Nothing removed

Changed

• Announcement bar functionality updated

• Ajax search - input border removed

• Header icons size increased on mobile

• Color swatches pattern

• Default image overlay set to 10%

• Product grid items set to 4 per row by default

• Footer logo moved to a block

• "Image columns" section renamed to "Shop the look"

• Buttons text capitalization

Fixed

• Popup newsletter success/error message

Introducing Palo Alto, a contemporary designed theme that gives you space to tell your story. Palo Alto is built to support Shopify's Online Store 2.0 and comes complete with easy-to-use sections, plus powerful search capabilities, and quick buying features for mobile and desktop customers.

Discover and learn about Palo Alto with our theme documentation and demo stores. Tell your story, and showcase your brand with our simple-to-use and creative tools.

Demo stores

Try Palo Alto

You can try Palo Alto for free as a draft theme:

Support

If you have questions or need additional assistance with using our Palo Alto theme, our support staff is here to help you by email. Reach us by sending a message to [email protected]

A very important note to make is that these settings are purely visual and aesthetic. Palo Alto does not have any options to change the functionality of your Checkout page.

The Checkout page is generated entirely from the Shopify core code so for any issues, at Checkout we highly recommend reaching out to Shopify Support.

Theme Styles on their own do not make your store have fewer or more sections. They do not have any significant impact on performance or functionality. Mostly, these are predetermined colors and font settings.

A custom loading icon helps you to keep brand consistency and display an animation as a loading indicator for your visitors.

How to set it up?

The settings for the custom loading icon can be found inside the Theme Editor under Theme Settings > Loading Icon:

From the available settings, you can make the image bigger. You can also set it to appear on the very first load only or to also appear between page loads.

The 'Theme Settings' tab is located under all sections in the Theme Editor. This tab contains a bundle of all global settings in Palo Alto.

Set two main fonts.

Font stacks in the Theme Settings are predetermined. You can not remove or add fonts to this list. To use Custom fonts, checkout our documentation post on the topic below:

Other options include:

• Selecting a font for your navigation menu

• Selecting a font for your buttons

• Selecting a font for your subheadings

• Setting different sizes

• Setting different letter spacing

• Letter capitalization (ALL CAPS)

Use a Custom Cart Message to broadcast important information to your customers.

How to set it up?

To set up a new Custom Cart Message you can open the Theme Editor and click on Theme Settings > Cart. The options for this are under the 'Message' headline:

Where can you see it?

The Custom Cart Message is shown in the cart drawer (like in the example above) and in the cart page.

The header section has a small group of settings called a 'Highlight link'.

Inside the Header section settings is where you will find the options to set the target text and the color of the text:

Where you can use the Transparent header.

Palo Alto can display a transparent header on the homepage, collection pages, and any customized pages that include a fullwidth background image (or video) section.

When using a transparent header, you may include a second logo to provide contrast with your main homepage asset.

How to enable the Transparent header.

To enable the Transparent header you will need to first open the Header section settings. From here, simply check the 'Enable transparent header' checkbox and save the changes:

Set three of four main colors that will represent your brand.

Try to use colors that are high in contrast. It will make your text easier to read. Here is a great contrast checker:

This tab holds miscellaneous settings that can affect small details in your store.

Under Layout, you can enable spacer lines, rounded corners, and text shadow.

In the Mobile menu, you can select to have drop-down items open the menu or to be their own link.

You can toggle Pagination and Animations.

Under Buttons, you can change the style, toggle on-hover animations, and toggle the 'Scroll to top' button.

The main Product grid settings can be used to make the best fit for your images.

Badges

Under Badges, you can toggle the Sale, Custom, Sold out, and Savings badges. There is also the option to show savings in cash or as a percentage.

Swatches

Under Swatches, you can toggle color swatches and enable them to be shown on hover (on Desktop only).

Quick shop

The Quick shop feature in Palo Alto allows customers to add products to their cart without leaving the page they are on.

When One-click is enabled, the customer purchases the product (or the first available variant) immediately.

If the product contains variants, we recommend using Quick view instead. This will take the customer through the process of choosing variants.

Where do we start?

To create a new Product template you need to click on the top drop-down menu and select the Product tab. From here, click on 'Create template' after which give your new template a name, and choose a template to base it on.

Where do the new templates go?

After the new template is created, you will find it under the same Product tab in the drop-down menu. You will be able to set up each product page individually and create truly unique pages using this method.

How do we apply them to the live store?

Finally, after your product page is ready and customized all that's left to do is assign it to the product it was meant for. You can do this by going into your admin panel and clicking on Products. After you locate the product you're looking for, simply scroll down to the 'Theme template' tab and select the appropriate page template.

Palo Alto supports metafields for creating pre-order products. When you define a preorder metafield, you can easily toggle on or off the preorder feature which converts the 'Add to Cart' button to a 'Pre-Order' button.

On the main product page, the Add to Cart button is replaced with a Pre-order button:

When viewing a collection page or any product grid-style section, a 'Pre-Order' badge is added to the product:

How to setup

Setting up a preorder metafield is very simple and can be done right in your Shopify Admin.

Metafield definition

Create a product metafield with the namespace and key set to theme.preorder. Set the content type to True or false.

Product setup

In the Metafields section of any product that you'd like to use the feature, change the preorder value to True:

Preorder template

To remove the Buy it now button, you can create a preorder product template and uncheck 'Show dynamic checkout buttons' under the Form block.

The new Collection page template introduces infinite customization options that you never knew you needed!

Click on Collection products to view settings for Collection pages:

Theme Settings

Expand the Theme Settings panel to view additional settings related to the product grid:

Product Grid

Use the Product Grid options to customize how many products per row are displayed on desktop and mobile.

Blog pages are meant to be a simple assortment of articles but who's to say you shouldn't customize them?

Layout and settings

The blog pages section holds a handful of settings but they can be quite important. These settings can be accessed by first navigating to the blog page you're looking to edit.

Palo Alto displays a rich grid of all your blog post articles. Click on Blog pages to configure the layout of your blog index page.

Blog layout

Controls to customize the layout of your blog index page:

TIP - Use Show tags to display the navigation tabs which allows readers to filter though your articles

Articles

You can adjust the image aspect ratio with the range slider.

The "By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms." text is there to show your customers quick links to some of your legal pages:

To change the text you need to access the Language Editor under Online Store > Themes > Actions > Edit Languages

Type "newsletter" into the search bar and edit all of the text related to this block:

Finally, scroll down and change the text:

To check the version of your current copy of the Palo Alto theme, click on the ellipses (three dots) icon at the top of the Theme Editor to view theme actions including the version number.

Upsell a product in the cart drawer (and the cart page) using a custom metafield definition. You can set different combinations for different products.

Setting up the new metafield definition

This feature uses metafields so our first step is to create a new metafield definiton. The most important part is to use this namespace and key: theme.upsell

To start, navigate to your Shopify Admin -> Settings and choose Metafields from the left panel. Next, click on Products (click images to zoom):

Click the Add definition button to begin. Choose a name, we'll use 'upsell'. Next, we will use a custom namespace. This is required.

A crucial step here is to change the default namespace (usually called 'my_fields') to theme

Add a description (this is optional) then choose Select content type. Here, choose the Product type and Save your new definitions.

Product setup

Now that our custom metafield has been defined, the final step is to edit any of your products in the Shopify Admin -> Products and update the new upsell metafield.

All you need to do is scroll to the bottom of the product setup page and fill them in:

Don't forget to Save your product and preview it on the cart drawer (or cart page).

A Mega Menu is a stylized submenu that allows you to also add an image to your navigation. It can be used to put more links together and group them in a form of subcategories.

To add a new Mega Menu you need to click on the Header section arrow to expand it after which click on 'Add image'.

Setting up the Mega Menu can be done by accessing the block settings. Here you will find the option to add it under any first-level link in your header as well as the options to add the image.

To get a list of links like the one from our demo you'll need to simply set them up from your navigation menu as standard drop-down menus. You can learn more about this in Shopify's great articles on the topic.

Contact form

Custom HTML

Include custom HTML snippets to create a unique look. Add partner badges via HTML snippets easily to any of your store pages.

Custom liquid

Write liquid directly into your store pages without accessing the theme code. This is best used for short liquid snippets.

Custom content

Grid

Palo Alto will display swatches for color variants in collection filtering and the product form on product pages.

Customize the trigger words

To customize the trigger words which activate swatches, use the Language Editor (Edit languages) and add or modify the values:

You can add more trigger words that will help use swatches for other options.

The result is the same and you can use different custom swatches as well.

Colors

Palo Alto can easily detect simple color names and convert them to swatches. There are a total of 140 color names Palo Alto can detect, all other more complex names will be represented by a default grey color swatch. You can upload your own custom color names and graphics as described below. Here is a full list of color names that will automatically be converted to swatches: Color names list

Customizing

If your products have color names other than the listed colors in the Color names list, you can add your own color names and values or upload images to the Assets folder:

Add custom color names and values to swatches.json

Use the swatches.json file located in the Assets folder to add your own custom names and HEX color values:

To find additional HEX color codes, visit: https://colorhunt.co

Add custom images to the assets folder

With Palo Alto, you can upload your own custom swatch images and display them on product and collection pages:

How to:

Disabling swatches

Swatches can be toggled on and off in the Theme settings under Product Grid:

Accessing the Theme Code.

Click on the ellipses (three dots) icon at the top of the Theme Editor to view the theme actions and choose Edit code:

Hiding the copyright information.

1. Open the 'footer-copyright.liquid' file from the Snippets folder.

2. Place an opening ({% comment %}) comment tag before the powered_by_link span.

3. Place a closing ({% endcomment %}) comment tag after the powered_by_link span.

4. Save the changes.

Creating the new template

Start by opening the Theme Editor and clicking on the Blogs tab in the top drop-down menu. From here, click on 'Create template'.

Editing the new template

Find your new template by going into the same Blogs tab in the top drop-down menu and select the template you just created. You are now able to add sections to it without affecting any other blog template.

Assigning the new template to your blog

The last step is to assign the new template to one of your blogs so that it can take the new style you've created. This is done by going into your Online Store > Blog posts and clicking on Manage blogs. Once you've found the blog you're looking to change, simply change the template name from the 'Theme template' tab.

A helpful article by Shopify on updating themes:‌

Steps for updating your theme.

1. Create a backup of your existing theme. This will be used to copy settings and to keep the live theme running without interruption.

2. Visit the Shopify Theme Store and login in. For paid themes, it is important to log in to the account that you used to buy the theme. This will prevent you from being asked to buy the theme again.

3. Download the latest version of Palo Alto - Click here​.

4. Click on 'Add latest theme version':

The "Cookie consent" popup is the perfect way to add a cookies popup notification to your storefront. It contains the options to include a header, message, link to your privacy page and an accept button.

Please note: Presidio Creative cannot guarantee compliance with GDPR, or compliance with any other regulations related to cookies.

How it works

Use the Popups section to enable the "Cookie consent". This is available in the Customizer under Online Store > Themes > Customize > Popups > Cookie consent.

You can also toggle it from the block settings:

How to change the text

To change the text you need to access the Language Editor under Online Store > Themes > Actions > Edit Languages

Type "Cookie" into the search bar and edit all of the text related to this block:

What is a preview link?

When working with an unpublished theme (also known as a draft), you can send out a preview link that allows anyone who has the link to preview your work/store. Shared preview links expire after a certain number of days and are randomly generated by Shopify.

How do you share it?

1. In the Theme Editor, click on the ellipses (three dots) icon at the top of the Theme Editor to view theme actions.

2. Choose Preview.

3. When the new preview window appears, choose the green Share preview button at the bottom of your browser.

4. Click the Copy link button to copy the address to your clipboard.

5. Send us that link, pasted from your clipboard.

For developers and to make minor CSS style modifications, use the Code Editor and add your custom CSS overrides at the bottom of theme.css located in the Assets folder.

How to open the code editor

Click on the ellipses (three dots) icon at the top of the Theme Editor to view theme actions, choose Edit code.

Alternatives and "theme.dev.css"

As you have probably noticed, "theme.css" is minified and you won't be able to easily change the styles. This is where the "theme.dev.css" file comes in handy.

To activate it, you need to access the "theme.liquid" file and replace the instances of "theme.css" on lines 9 and 44 with "theme.dev.css".

The popup section in Palo Alto can be used as a newsletter popup or as a sales promotion tool to display custom messages and promo codes based on where the customer arrives from, is viewing, and how they are interacting with your site.

There are three different section blocks:

We go into more details about each block in their own posts linked above.

Popup Behavior

There are four behavior options that you can control from the block settings:

Target Page

Display a custom popup to your customers only when the customer is browsing a certain page, product, collection, or blog post on your site. Target your message based on where customers are browsing on your site:

Target Referrer

Target a specific audience by using Target Referrer. Your popup will only appear when the customer arrives at your site from a certain path or location.

Target Device

Create a custom popup for mobile devices and another popup for desktop browsers with Target Device. Each popup can be customized with different assets and messaging.

Delay appearance

Use 'Delay appearance' to delay the popup from showing on the page. There are four different delay options:

Palo Alto includes ready-to-use page templates for your store including:

• About

• Contact

• FAQ

• Default page

These templates make it easy for you to quickly add content and build out pages that add value to your customer experience and company branding.

How to use page templates

Creating a page

Pages are created in your Shopify Admin under Pages. Choose Add page to create a new page:

Give your page a title (required), the content is optional. Next, choose a Theme template to be used, also known as Page template:

Customizing pages

Using the Theme Editor, you can customize the template that's been assigned to your page:

You can start customizing the page with the pre-defined sections included in Palo Alto. You can hide, reorder, remove sections that are included and also add any new selection from Palo Alto's list of over 25+ sections.

Learn more about using sections and blocks in Palo Alto:

Creating a new page template

From the top drop-down menu select Pages and click on Create template. Give your new template a name and a template to base it on. This will make it so that there are one or two sections predefined but they can be removed or hidden later.

Theme Support.

To reach us with questions or additional assistance with using Palo Alto, our support staff is here to help you by email. To better support all our customers, we handle all our support via email. This helps us manage support across multiple time zones in a timely manner.

Reach us via our contact form:

Shopify Support.

Shopify provides 24/7 support to all its customers. Shopify Support covers any platform questions or issues. For example, if you need assistance with using the Shopify Admin tools like product setup or your store settings. Shopify Support also handles all Checkout support.

Shopify Support:

App Support.

For all app-related issues or questions, Shopify's policy requires app developers to be responsible for ensuring compatibility with themes in the Theme Store. It's best if you reach out to each individual app developer when requiring assistance with their app, functionality, or conflicts.

We can only support the code we write which is the code of the Palo Alto theme. Integrations with apps are handled by app developers directly. Each app developer has their own support system in place and can help you with issues regarding their app.

Shopify Experts.

For any custom code requests or theme customizations, we recommend that you reach out to a Shopify Expert. Shopify Experts are advanced developers that provide many custom solutions for your store and also quick task-based solutions. They can provide full support for their work.

Presidio Creative does not provide any custom coding services.

Some Shopify Experts with Palo Alto experience include:

• they are the best fit for larger projects

• they are the best fit for larger projects

• has experience working with Shopify and accepts small contracts

• has experience with Palo Alto and a great portfolio

• is a large and experienced Shopify agency that does work in Palo Alto

• is great - they also do plenty of Palo Alto work.

Uploading your Font Files

In order to use your own custom fonts, you will first need to upload the font files. To do this, you'll need to head on over to your Online Store > Themes and click on Actions > Edit code.

From here, open the Assets folder and upload your font files into it:

Defining the new Font Families

Now that we have the assets sorted out we can head on over to the 'css-variables.liquid' file. It's located inside the Snippets folder. Here you need to scroll all the way to the bottom and add a bit of code before the closing style tag (' {%- endstyle -%} '):

This is the place where you need to add this code snippet:

In this code snippet, you need to replace all references of 'Gorham' with your own font name and font files names.

Assigning your Custom Fonts

Finally, all we need to do is assign the new fonts to be used. There are four global font variables that control the fonts for the headings, body text, buttons, and navigation menu. You can easily find all of them by using CTRL + F (or Command + F) and searching for 'font-stack':

All you need to do here is to replace the first value assigned to the variables you're looking to change, we'll continue to use 'Gotham' in our example to keep it consistent but this is also a place where you input your custom font name:

That's it, you're all set and ready to go. Just don't forget to Save the changes.

The cart terms and conditions allow you to add a checkbox to stop users from checking out before accepting the terms and conditions of your store.

To enable this option you can go into your Theme Editor and click on Theme Settings > Cart.

In Palo Alto, you have the option to show up to three upsell buttons when the cart is empty.

To set this up you need to first create a new navigation menu. Start by heading over to your Online Store > Navigation and clicking on 'Add menu':

You can give it any name you want, we will call ours 'Cart menu':

Lastly, you need to open up the Theme Editor and click on Theme Settings > Cart:

Under Empty cart click on 'Select menu' and choose the menu you just created:

A lightweight text and link popup with powerful behavior and targeting options:

Image settings

Button, Color, and Newsletter

Collection list

Collection marbles

Featured collection

Products list

Featured product

Tab collections

Shop the look

Mosaic

Here we will cover recommended image sizes you can use within various sections in Palo Alto. These include the slideshow section, collection banners, blog post featured images, logo, product images, and product feature section images.

Slideshow Section Images

The Slideshow section allows you to specify desktop and mobile images as well as specify the slide height.

Image width

Desktop: We recommend using images 1920px in width.

Mobile: We recommend using images 1080px in width.

Image height

Palo Alto provides an option to specify various slide height sizes: Full Screen Height, Image Height, 750px, 650px, 550px,450px.

Static sizes: If you want to use a static slide height (750px, 650px, 550px or 450px), make sure your image height is around that size.

For example, if you'd like to use a slide image height of 750px, you'll want to save your image around this same size. This will prevent image cropping both towards the top and bottom. This applies to the other slide height sizes (650px, 550px and 450px).

Full-screen height: This option will fit the images to the entire height of the browser window. This option is recommended for images with medium height sizes and not for images with large height sizes, as these will be cropped at the bottom of the image.

Image height: Setting this option will have the images displayed in the original height as uploaded. This option is quite useful if you want to have the full image displayed as there will be no cropping of the images.

Product Images

We recommend using images at a ratio of one to one and sizes around 1024 by 1024 pixels or smaller images of about 600 by 600 pixels.

Blog Images

Palo Alto provides an option to adjust image aspect ratios for the blog page.

Aspect Ratio 1 to 1

This is the standard setting that works well with square-shaped images. We recommend this square ratio because the images will be cropped square on the blog overview page and they'll display in their uploaded ratio on the individual blog post page.

Aspect Ratio 1.5 to 1

This ratio will result in taller images or portrait images.

Aspect Ratio 0.5 to 1

This ratio can be used to display wider images. We recommend it for landscape images.

Catalog Banner Images

This is the page with the "/collections/all" URL that lists all of the visible products in the store. By default, products on the catalog page are shown in alphabetic order.

Palo Alto provides an option to specify this image within the Image with Title section settings.

We recommend using image sizes around 1400px in width.

Palo Alto provides you with options to specify the banner height. These include: Full Screen, Image Height, 750px, 650px, 550px.

These options are applied the same as with the slideshow section images definitions discussed above.

Logo Images

We recommend using logo images at a width of around 440px.

The maximum logo height applied is 100px therefore it is ideal to have a logo with a height around this size or lower.

Popup Images

For our Popup section, we recommend using an image with at least 600 pixels in its lower dimension. The default aspect ratio here is 8 by 7.

In pixels that should translate to 690 by 600 pixels or 1380 by 1200 pixels if you're looking to create a retina image.

Palo Alto has three filtering methods to choose from. They can be found under the Collection products section settings.

Default

The default method is a new feature introduced with Online Store 2.0. This feature is automatically generated based on your product information such as variant price, availability, product type, brand, and vendor.

Filter by tag

Filtering by tag method simply takes all of the unique tags applied to each product of the collection and lists them inside the filters menu.

This is the most simple method of all and as such, the fastest. If your priority is speed, we definitely recommend giving this method a try.

Filter by group

The filter by group method has been a staple in our theme for years and we are happy to include this in this version too. While this method is similar to the filter by tag method, as they both use product tags, it is a lot more advanced.

Setting this method up requires the use of product tags with a specific pattern. For each of your products, you need to specify tags that consist of a combination between the group name and the option name.

The group and option need to be separated with an underscore but they can contain spaces if they need to.

Palo Alto is built to use Shopify's Online Store 2.0 (OS2) which allows you to use all of Palo Alto's 20+ sections everywhere including the Homepage, Product pages, Collections, Pages, Blogs, Cart page, Search page, and more. Endless flexibility options for your store.

Shopify's Online Store 2.0 also includes Collection filtering tools, unique content using Metafields (dynamic source), easy to create custom templates, improved storefront performance. Palo Alto uses all the features included in Shopify's new modern platform.

Getting started with Online Store 2.0.

Shopify's platform change completely remodels how you can use your store. Start with learning the features and changes Shopify has introduced:

Uploading a logo for your Header.

You can upload a logo in place of your store name by opening the Header section settings and uploading a Custom logo:

Uploading a logo for your Transparent header.

A separate option is available to help provide better contrast when transparency is used. This is an optional but helpful feature.

About our Sections.

Palo Alto comes complete with 20+ professional theme sections to help you merchandise your online store. Sections can be added to any page on your store.

Discover the complete range of sections and their settings. Experiment by adding different types of sections and section blocks to the homepage and the other pages within your store.

Section settings.

To find the primary settings for each section, click on the section name to view the settings panel. These settings control the elements of the section.

Wider desktop screens will display the settings panel on the right side of your screen.

Adding a section.

Hiding a section.

Use the eye icon next to the section title to toggle the display of the entire section:

Tip - Blocks have their own eye icon, be sure to select the section eye icon to toggle display of the entire section.

Reordering sections.

Use the handle icon which is located next to the eye icon to drag a section and drop it in a new position:

Theme Settings.

Under each section settings (as well as under all sections inside the Theme Editor) you will find a button to the Theme Settings. These are a number of global settings grouped together for ease of use. Some section settings are also placed under the Theme Settings so if you're looking for a setting you feel are not finding, it might be under this little tab:

Shoppable blog posts

Blog posts

Locations

Newsletter

Press

Text

Tabs

Testimonials

Marquee

Promo

Palo Alto has built-in support for Shopify's Product Reviews app. Star ratings can be shown throughout the theme. Here are some examples:

Product Detail page

Star and average rating value next to product name:

Individual reviews and forms to add a new review can be shown with Palo Alto's accordions or separate below the product description:

Collection page and Product Grid sections

Stars can be shown above product name and price:

The option to enable this can be found in the Collection pages section under the Theme Settings Tab.

How to setup

Palo Alto includes quick and easy settings in the Theme Editor to display ratings. The main requirement is that you have the Shopify Reviews app installed:

If you don't have the app installed, use this link to download it.

Theme Editor Settings

For the Product Detail page, you can easily add the rating value, star, and the number of ratings from the Title and price block under the Product pages section:

There are checkboxes for the following:

• Show star rating - Adds a star icon next to the rating number.

• Show rating count - Displays the number of reviews for the current product.

The new Product page sections in our Palo Alto theme are built from the ground up with the new features introduced in Online Store 2.0 in mind. The use of JSON templates allows for dynamic sections to be used to truly customize your product pages to your style.

Accessing the Product pages can be done by opening your Theme Editor and clicking on Products. This will show all of the available product pages in the specific theme copy you are editing.

A big part of the settings can be accessed from the section blocks. They can also be moved around if you're looking to customize the look. You can move blocks the same way you move sections.

Each block has six small dots that you can click and hold to drag and drop them between one another.

Learn more about the individual 'Product pages' section blocks here.

Cross-promote other collections with subcollections. Display a carousel or grid of links to related or similar collections onto any collection page:

How it works

Palo Alto uses Shopify's Navigation menu system to bring custom menu items into any collection page and displays them as subcollections with a graphical image, collection name, description, and link.

How to setup

Subcollections are already included with the default collection template, listed as a section called subcollection:

Section Settings

Adding collections

Use the link in the settings to create a navigation list, the rest is done right in your Shopify Admin under Navigation. Choose Add menu to create a new menu:

Create a new menu with the same name as your collection:

For our example, we will be adding subcollections to our 'Espradrille' collection, our menu will be called Espradrille ,and the handle in lowercase: espradrille

Next, we'll add menu items, these will be the subcollection links that are displayed in the subcollection carousel or grid:

Save your menu and your subcollections are ready to use.

The Palo Alto Icons Row section comes with predefined Icons to choose from. You can also add your own Custom Icons in the form of Images.

However, if you want to use the SVG format for its higher quality and already have images in mind, here's how to add them in.

Step one

The first order of business is to upload your SVG files into the Theme Code. From your Shopify admin page, go into your Online Store > Themes and click on Actions > Edit code:

Next, open up the Snippets folder and choose to Add a new snippet.

You will be prompted to give the new file a name. A common practice is to use lower case letters only with dashes instead of spaces (we call this 'kebab case'). We'll call our example 'custom-check-icon' which will automatically be converted to custom-check-icon.liquid by Shopify.

Now you will have a blank file. You can simply paste in your SVG code for your icon. Usually, this pastes all in one line.

Step two

Now that we have our custom icon ready to go, it's time to add it to the list of available icons. To do this, we have to open the section-icons-row.liquid file from the Sections folder.

Here, we can use Command + F (or CTRL + F on Windows) to find the icon_name in the section schema settings.

Simply copy and paste the first value of this schema above itself and this will create a new option in the drop-down.

Next up, rename the value and label to something that matches the name of the custom icon.

Step three

The final step is to open up the icons.liquid file from the Snippets folder and add in a new option in the case.

The easiest thing to do is to copy and paste lines 2 and 3 any place before a when tag. Once that's done, simply rename the text in the tags to match your custom icon name.

Your new option will now appear in the Icons Row block selection menu:

The Footer in Palo Alto has a lot of customizable elements in the form of section blocks. You can add in blocks by clicking the small arrow icon next to the Footer section then clicking the 'Add block' buttons:

Logo

The logo block allows you to add an image (logo) and set its size. The image can be linked through a dynamic source to be shown differently on some pages (product pages, collection pages)

There is also the option to show or hide the store name under the logo image.

Link list

The link list block allows you to add a navigation menu. You have the option to show or hide the title of the menu as a heading.

Text

A text block does as a text block sounds. You can add a short message with a heading to give information about your brand or current promotions.

Blog

Using a Blog link, Palo Alto introduces a navigation menu to its three latest posts.

The 'Layout' setting here allows you to switch between showing blogs or showing tags. The tags will lead to pre-filtered pages that display all blog posts matching the tag (from the selected blog).

Newsletter

A Newsletter block comes with an automatic newsletter subscription box. There are also settings to add a heading and text.

Footer Section Settings

Other than the individual blocks, the Footer section also has a number of settings itself. You can set the background and text color, disable the footer wave style or set a different color for it.

There is also the option to show payment icons, currency and language selectors, as well as a short menu in the Bottom bar.

The Palo Alto 'Product pages' section blocks help you customize the primary or core content for your product pages and product templates. Adding sections further enhances your merchandising.

Types of theme blocks

Palo Alto includes the following theme blocks for product pages/templates:

Title and price

Inventory countdown

Form (Product form)

Product description

Accordions

Upsell

Share button

Pickup availability

Custom Liquid

Popup text

Text

Icon

Custom product badges in Palo Alto allow you to create any type of badge for each of your products.

Badge color

Use the Palo Alto Theme Settings to modify the background colors for Saving badges and Custom product badges:

How to create custom badges

Custom badges are easy to create and all done in your Product setup. You simply add a tag to any of your products with a custom prefix. When Palo Alto sees the custom tag, it sticks the badge right onto the product in any grid view like collections, search, recommendations, and more.

Creating custom tags

When Palo Alto sees a product that has a tag beginning with _badge_, it will take the following portion and apply that as the custom badge.

Example: _badge_Black_Friday

Displayed as:

Additional Badges

Palo Alto also includes automated 'Sale' and 'Sold Out' badges. As shown above, some badges can be mixed together like the 'Sale' and 'Savings' badges.

The settings to enable or disable certain badges can be found under Theme Settings > Product Grid:

Preorder badge

The final badge in Palo Alto is the 'Preorder' badge. It's enabled individually for each product by adding a _preorder tag to the product.

Effect on the Collection page:

Effect on the Product page:

Badge priority

Some badges can disable or overwrite others. For example, if a product is sold out, it can't be shown as on sale.

Custom badges have the highest priority. They will appear alongside other badges to give more information to your customers.

Click on the Announcement bar section to reveal the section settings.

These settings will allow you to change the background and text colors of your Announcement bar section, layout style, and autoplay speed.

Block types:

You can also click on the small arrow next to this section to expand it and show its blocks. This will allow you to access each block to change its text and link.

Text

Add single or multiple text announcement bars with links to promote your offers:

Free shipping message

Use this block to encourage add-on sales and increased quantities.

Modify the message text as needed. Keep the || amount || custom short-code to reference your set value from the Cart settings.

Custom HTML

Build custom announcement messages and use targeting options to provide complete customization for your promotions.

Target Settings

Updating from a previous version of Palo Alto.

Updating from Palo Alto 4.0.0.

Coming from Palo Alto 4.0.0 (or 4.0.1) you are using the new structure of JSON templates. There might be a chance for you to transfer over some of the settings in your edited page templates.

To start, you will need to first download a fresh copy of our latest version of Palo Alto from the Shopify Theme Store.

Next, you can open the code editor of your current copy by going into your Online Store > Themes and clicking on Actions > Edit code.

Here, you should find the edited page templates with a small grey dot as an indication that they are changed.

What you can do here is to open up the edited page templates, we'll use index.json for our example, and copy the content to paste in the new theme.

The last step is to open the code editor for the new copy, open up the same file, in our case index.json, and paste in all of the code.

Lastly, all that's left is to save the changes. If no build errors pop up, you have successfully transferred all of the settings that are still compatible with the new version.

Please note that it's possible not all settings will be compatible in which case you could run into a build error or just have missing sections. Always check your progress through the Theme Editor and add in the missing sections before publishing the new copy.

If you run into a lot of build errors, then the best thing to do would be to manually redo all sections from the Theme Editor for the template.

Icons Row

Image with text

Image accordions

Overlapping images

Text columns with images

Split images

Logo list

Slideshow

Video