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

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

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

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

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

Use dynamic sources for banner image

You can use an image metafield and dynamic source to display unique banner images for collections using the same template.

You might want to use this option if you want to use an image that’s different than the default image uploaded to your collections in the Shopify admin.

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.

Add image overlay

The image overlay adds a layer of color to your image. Overlays help balance image and text for clarity and readability.

  • Select colors the overlay and overlay text

  • Change the opacity to make the overlay more or less transparent

Click Collection banner section to find settings

Setting
Description

Tint opacity

Use the slider to adjust the transparency of the overlay color. Set the opacity to 0% to turn off the overlay color. If set to 100%, the overlay will be opaque.

Tint style

Choose to use a Solid overlay color or Gradient overlay for the tint. The gradient style fades across a range of hues. You can select the angle and direction of the gradient from one of four options.

Override with custom colors

Check this option to use custom overlay colors for the tint. These colors will override the overlay colors selected in your theme settings.

Text color

Select a custom color for the heading and text of the banner. This setting applies only if the Override with custom colors option is enabled.

Tint color

Select a custom overlay text color for the tint. This setting applies only if the Override with custom colors option is enabled.

Show breadcrumbs

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.

Related links

Collections template Product grid Filters and sorting

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