Themes

A theme controls the visual layout and appearance of your store. It defines how your customers will view the store and interact with it.

Themes on StoreHippo platform are not merely the skin for your store but are a powerful tool that makes it easy to build interactive, mobile ready interfaces of any level of complexity.

Understanding Themes explains the themes, its components, and capabilities in a bit more detail.

Managing Themes

You can manage the themes for your store under Site > Themes section in StoreHippo Admin Panel. Your active theme is listed under the Active Themes tab.

Importing a new theme

You can browse and import a new theme for your store from StoreHippo Theme Store. StoreHippo offers a wide variety of fully functional e-commerce themes to choose from. 

Your imported themes are listed under the themes tab as shown below:

Making theme as default

You can import various themes to your store, but only one theme can be set as default. To set the default theme, click on the ellipsis button on a theme and choose the option "Make Default Theme" from the drop-down to make that theme default for your website.

Unlinking a theme

All themes are Global by default. If you want to customise the theme according to your needs, you need to Unlink it to make it a Local theme. To unlink a theme, click on the ellipsis button and choose Unlink from the drop-down. 

You will be prompted for confirmation. Choose "ok", and the theme will unlink.

Know more about Global vs Local themes.

Designing Themes

Clicking on the icon will open the theme designer in a new window. Theme designer looks as shown below:

You will be able to design the look and feel as well modify the HTML code for various pages, edit the static resources like Javascript, CSS files etc. through the theme designer.