Banner

In the Collection banner settings, you can customize its overall section style, along with the banner image and description. You can also choose to enable breadcrumb navigation.

The Collection image is a Shopify feature. See their article Add a featured image for a collection ↗ for more information.

Collection title and description

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The banner text includes the collection title and description that you’ve added in your Shopify admin. The text uses the Heading and Body font styles chosen in the Theme settings.

To edit your collection's title or description, go to Products > Collections in your Shopify admin.

Setting	Description
Show collection description	Show the collection description from the collection settings in your Shopify admin.
Truncate collection description	Choose to show the full collection description or hide additional lines that can be revealed by clicking ‘more’ button. You can truncate the description text after 1 line or 2 lines.

Set up banner image

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By default, the banner will use the image uploaded to the collection settings in your Shopify admin.

See Shopify's guide to Add a featured image for a collection ↗

You can change the image height, define an image focal point, and add a color or gradient overlay on top of your image.

Using color overlays

Learn how to change overlay colors and use gradients.

Use dynamic sources for banner image

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To show custom images for collection pages using the same template, you can use metafields and dynamic sources. Use this option if you want to show different images without changing the collection image in your Shopify admin.

There are three general steps:

1. Create a 'file' metafield for collections

2. Add custom images to the new metafield in your collections

3. In your theme editor, add the metafield as a dynamic source to the banner image setting

Metafields allow you to store extra information about your products. In your Shopify admin, you can create and populate custom fields for specific parts of your store (such as products). In your theme editor, you can use dynamic sources to automatically display the correct content from your metafields.

STEPS

In your Shopify admin:

1. Go to Settings > Custom data.

2. Select Collections.

3. Click Add definition.

4. In the Name field, enter a name that describes what the metafield is for. For example: “Banner image”.

5. Under Access, select Storefronts to allow the metafield to display images on your store.

6. Click (+) Select type and select File.

7. Under Validations, make sure Accept specific file types is selected, and uncheck Videos.

8. Click Save.

To add images to your collections’ metafields:

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Products > Collections and open your collections to add images.

2. Scroll down to the Metafields area, and click the banner image metafield you created to select an image.

   If no image is uploaded to your banner image metafield, the theme will use the default collection image.

3. Click Save.

To insert your metafield as a dynamic source:

1. In your theme editor (Customize), go to the collection template and click Collection banner to open the settings.

2. Under Collection mage banner, click the Connect dynamic source button in the top-right of the image field.

3. Select your custom metafield from the list.

4. Click Save.

Click Collection banner section to find settings

Setting	Description
Show collection image	Choose to display an image from your Shopify admin settings or custom image.
Image	Select or upload a custom image for the banner to override the image from your Shopify admin settings.
Mobile image	Select or upload an alternate custom image for the banner when on mobile devices.
Image focal point	Select the most important part of your image to keep centered. Use focal points to avoid unwanted cropping across different screen sizes.
Mobile image focal point	For mobile images, select the most important part of your image to keep centered.
Banner height	Set the banner height to either Adapt to image (use your image’s height) or select a Custom height.
Custom desktop height	Choose a Fixed height (in pixels) or Relative height (as a percentage of the window height).
Custom mobile height	Choose a Fixed height (in pixels) or Relative height (as a percentage of the window height).
Text position	Choose one of nine positions to place the description text within the banner.
Mobile text position	Choose one of nine positions to place the description text within the banner.

Show breadcrumbs

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You can display "Breadcrumb links" that show where customers are on your site and allow them to easily return to the previous page.

Breadcrumbs appear at the bottom-left of the banner when customers have navigated to the collection page from another page.

STEPS

In your theme editor (Customize):

1. Click on the Collection banner section to open the settings.

2. (Optional.) Click Show breadcrumbs to display a row of links so customers can see where they are on your site and can return to the previous page.

3. Click Save.

Click Collection banner section to find settings

Setting	Description
Show breadcrumbs	Display "Breadcrumb links" that show where customers are on your site and allow them to easily return to the previous page.

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Related links

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