Theme compatibility

Section Universe works with Online Store 2.0 themes: every free Shopify theme (Horizon, Dawn and the rest) and almost every theme sold in the Shopify Theme Store. Pages need to use JSON templates, which is how these themes are built. The app’s Check my theme tells you which page types of your published theme can hold sections.

Following your theme’s look

Sections use your theme’s fonts, button shapes and colors, so they sit naturally between your theme’s own sections.

Look: most sections offer Blend with the theme (no frame, the default) or Card (a soft panel).
Custom colors: turn on in a section’s style settings to give that one section its own background, text and accent colors. See Settings every section has.
Buttons in Section Universe sections have their own small animation but take your theme’s corner radius and colors.

Themes with theme blocks

On themes with theme blocks, such as Horizon, sections that belong beside Add to cart can also be added as a block inside Product information. See Sections beside Add to cart.

Limits set by Shopify

A template can hold up to 25 sections. If the theme editor won’t add another one, remove a section you no longer use on that page.
Sections are added per theme: install into a theme before you publish it.

The app’s files are separate from your theme’s own (their names start with su-). When you move to a new copy of your theme, for example after a theme update, check Installed and install your sections into the new copy before you publish it.