Announcement bar
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The Announcement bar appears at the top of every page above the header. You can display rotating announcements, featured links, social media icons, and allow visitors to select their preferred store language and country.
Add up to 3 rotating announcements to let customers know about current promotions, new product lines, or other store updates.
You can add an information popup to display additional details about your announcement.
Add a link or button that opens a popup with additional content. You can display custom text or a page created in your Shopify admin. Click to Enable the Additional information popup.
By default, multiple announcements will rotate every 5 seconds. You can choose to display each message between 3 to 15 seconds. Announcements with more words may need more time for customers to read them.
Cornerstone supports selling in multiple languages. After you have added and published languages ↗ to your store, enable the Language selector to let customers select their preferred language.
Cornerstone comes with translations for default theme text in 4 languages: French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Note See our Selling in multiple languages guide to learn more. You can add multiple languages in your Shopify admin and use a translation app to translate your store content.
Enable the Country selector to let customers to view your products with their preferred currency. The selector displays countries with their currencies supported in your Shopify Market settings.
Shopify | Selling in multiple currencies ↗ is a Shopify feature. Only stores using Shopify Payments can use this feature.
Add your social media links in the Theme settings to automatically display those social icons at the top of the header. Enter the full URL, including https://
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Show a secondary menu with nested dropdown links in the announcement bar. It's a great way to link to additional information about your store or highlight new pages, collections, and products.
From your Shopify admin, go to Content > Menus. Click Create menu and Add menu items. Click Save.
We recommend a maximum of five top-level links. You can drag-and-drop links to create up to 3 levels of nested menus.
In your theme editor, click the Announcement bar section to open the settings. Under Links, select the menu you created in the Shopify admin. Click Save.
Click the Announcement bar section to find the following settings.
Time between announcement
Choose to display each message between 3 to 15 seconds.
Text color
Change the color of all text in the announcement bar.
Background color
Change the color of the announcement bar background.
Show divider
Show a border at the bottom of the announcement bar.
Enable language selector
Allow customers to select their preferred store language.
Enable country selector
Allow customers to select their preferred country and currency.
Show country flags
Display the flag icons next to country names in the selector.
Show social icons
Display icon links for you social media accounts set up in your theme settings.
Links
Select a menu from your Shopify admin to display links within the announcement bar.
Click an Announcement block to find the following settings.
Announcement text
Choose to display each message between 3 to 15 seconds.
Mobile announcement text
Change the color of all text in the announcement bar.
Announcement link
Add or paste a URL to make the announcement text a clickable link to another page. If enabled, do not add links directly in the announcement text.
Enable
Choose to show a info popup link that display additional text.
Link text
Change the text of the popup link.
Link style
Display links as Text or a Button.
Popup heading
Add text to display a heading at the top of the popup.
Popup text
Add text to display below the heading in the popup.
Page for content
Select a page to display within the popup instead of the popup text. You will need to create a page in your Shopify admin.
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