Stage 2 · Lesson 5 of 7
Sections and blocks in the theme editor
are the modules that make up a page, such as a large banner at the top (the ), a featured collection or a testimonial slider. Each one has settings the controls. Blocks are smaller repeatable parts inside a section, such as single slides or feature items.
The merchant can add, reorder and remove them. Good settings let one well built section cover many layouts safely. Before you write any code, study how your 's sections offer headings, images, colours and links as settings.
In the next stage you will write your own sections, with a schema that defines those settings.
Common trapbuilding a page with custom code where a section and some blocks would have let the merchant update it themselves.
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Resources for this stage
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- CourseFreeShopify Academy
Shopify · Beginner
Shopify's own free courses on the admin, store setup and theme development
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- Dawn: Shopify's Reference ThemeGo deeper
Read the source of Shopify's reference theme to see how sections and settings fit together