Venue - Product page - Create additional product templates

The Venue theme comes with several product page template built in. If you wish to create a Pre-order template please refer to this article.

Templates vs Metafields

Using a combination of templates and metafields, you can create unique and flexible product pages, collection pages or any page—and Safe As Milk themes are fully optimised to support this.

A. Templates – control the layout

Templates let you build different layouts for different products/collection pages/pages. You can show or hide sections, rearrange content blocks, and assign templates to products from your Shopify admin. Use this when you want different layouts for different types of products.

B. Metafields – control the content

Metafields let you add custom information like materials, specifications, videos, or size charts. You can manage them per product and display them using dynamic sources.

Use this when the layout stays the same, but the content varies from product to product. Like templates metafields can be use all over your store.

Helpful resources:

• Shopify guide on metafields: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/custom-data/metafields

• Shopify guide on templates: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/themes/theme-structure/templates

• Quick video intro to metafields (starts at 4:44): https://youtu.be/VghcPn3AzYs?t=284

• Adding content to tabs via metafields on Venue theme https://www.awesomescreenshot.com/video/37535631?key=141b0e1a85ad4f6625a881bd1a71486a

Create additional product page templates

If you plan to use the product page template method then please follow these steps:

Step one

1. Go to Online Store > Themes and click Customize.
2. In the theme editor, use the dropdown at the top and middle of the editor to select Products → Create template.
3. Name your new template (e.g. product-alt ), and base it on the Default product  template in the dropdown. This is the starting point for your new product page template.
4. Click Create template.

At this stage, you can start editing the template by adding sections, blocks, and content. However, we recommend assigning a product to the new template first — it makes it easier to understand and preview your changes.

Step two

1. From the admin click Online store > Products and select the product you wish to assign the new template to.
2. Navigate to the part of the product editor called Theme template
3. Select the template you just created from the dropdown and Save
4. Head back to the theme editor, navigate to this product and start adding blocks/sections and content as required.