Installation

This page walks you through adding Pave to your Shopify store, previewing it before going live, and what to expect on first install.

Add the theme to your store

  1. Sign in to the Shopify Theme Store and open the Pave listing.
  2. Choose Try theme to add Pave to your store as an unpublished theme.
  3. In your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes. Pave appears in the Theme library section.

Preview before publishing

Until you choose to publish, Pave runs in preview mode and is not visible to your customers.

  1. From Online Store > Themes, click Customize on Pave to open the theme editor.
  2. Use the device toolbar at the top of the editor to preview desktop, tablet, and mobile layouts.
  3. To share a preview link with stakeholders, click the … menu next to the theme name and choose Share preview.

Duplicate before any code edit

Always duplicate your theme before making any code edits. From Online Store > Themes, click the … menu next to Pave and choose Duplicate. Work on the copy. If anything goes wrong, your published theme is unaffected.

See Duplicate your theme for the full procedure.

Publish the theme

When you are ready to make Pave the live theme on your storefront:

  1. From Online Store > Themes, click the … menu next to Pave.
  2. Choose Publish.
  3. Confirm the change. Pave is now your live theme.

What to expect on first install

  • Demo content does not transfer. The screenshots and demo content shown on the Theme Store listing are illustrative. Your store starts with your real products, collections, and content.
  • The chosen preset determines the initial look. Pave ships with one preset. After publishing, the home page shows its six bundled sections, ready for you to populate: hero banner, new arrivals, brand message, collection list, journal and brand image. A newsletter signup sits above the footer on every page. See Home page.
  • Alternate templates are ready to assign. Pave ships extra templates for products (editorial, gift card, quick order), collections (lookbook) and pages (about, accessibility, contact with stores, drop, editorial, FAQ, lookbook, size guide). See Templates.
  • Sample text ships with the theme and must be replaced. Default copy such as “Crafted with intention”, “From the journal” and the sample paragraphs in Brand message and Rich text with image are placeholders. Anything published with them still in place reads as unfinished.

Pave works on every Shopify plan. To unlock the full feature set:

  • Shopify Payments. Required for Shop Pay Installments and accelerated checkout.
  • Markets. Required for the multi-currency and multi-language selectors. The theme’s own text already ships in ten languages.
  • Shopify Search & Discovery app, required for complementary product configuration.
  • A Shopify reviews app. Needed for star ratings on product pages and product cards, and for review widgets in the Customer reviews section. Pave reads the standard reviews.rating metafield that most reviews apps fill. Without an app, the Customer reviews section can still show quotes you type in yourself.

For details on each, see the Shopify Help Center.

Next step

Continue with First steps to upload your logo, configure colors, and build out your home page.

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