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The Melbourne theme allows you to include either 1 or 4 featured collections on your home page.  The featured collections area resizes for different devices, and looks gorgeous on tablets and phones.
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The Melbourne theme allows you to display your four most recent blog posts on your home page.  If you don't have 4 blog posts, or you have blog posts that don't have images in them, you should not enable this feature.
  
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Select your featured collections in the ''Design & assets -> Theme editor'' section of your store's Toolbox. This can be found in the ''Home Page - Collections'' section.
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Select the blog you'd like to display in the ''Design & assets -> Theme editor'' section of your store's Toolbox. This can be found in the ''Home Page - Blog Articles'' section.
  
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Select your featured collections in the ''Design & assets -> Theme editor'' section of your store's Toolbox.  Scroll down on this page until you find the section called ''Home Page - Collections''.   
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Select your blog in the ''Design & assets -> Theme editor'' section of your store's Toolbox.  Scroll down on this page until you find the section called ''Home Page - Blog Articles''.   
  
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You will find the following options...
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You will find only one option...
  
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* '''First collection''' - You will need to select at least one collection to display on your home pages.  The Option menu will display all of the collections in your store. Select your collection, scroll down and click the ''Save Settings'' button.
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* '''Display articles from your blog?''' - A list of the blogs you have in your store if displayed here. Select the blog you'd like to display, scroll down and click the ''Save Settings'' button.<p>NOTE: If your blog doesn't have 4 blog posts, or you have blog posts that don't have images in them, you should disable this feature by selecting ''None''.</p>
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* '''Display small featured collections?''' - You can opt to feature only one collection on your home page, but we suggest you enable the feature to display more and select the other collections you's like to display.  If you don't have 3 other collections in your store yet, you shouldn't enable this section until you do.<p>If a collection has less than 3 products, you'll see a warning on your store telling you to add products to the collection.  When you are done editing your featured collections, or want to save them to view them in your store, scroll down an click the ''Save Settings'' button.</p>
 
  
 
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Revision as of 16:46, 9 April 2015

  • Displaying blog articles on your home page

The Melbourne theme allows you to display your four most recent blog posts on your home page. If you don't have 4 blog posts, or you have blog posts that don't have images in them, you should not enable this feature.

Select the blog you'd like to display in the Design & assets -> Theme editor section of your store's Toolbox. This can be found in the Home Page - Blog Articles section.

Selecting your blog

  • Selecting the blog to feature on your home page.

Select your blog in the Design & assets -> Theme editor section of your store's Toolbox. Scroll down on this page until you find the section called Home Page - Blog Articles.

You will find only one option...

  • Display articles from your blog? - A list of the blogs you have in your store if displayed here. Select the blog you'd like to display, scroll down and click the Save Settings button.

    NOTE: If your blog doesn't have 4 blog posts, or you have blog posts that don't have images in them, you should disable this feature by selecting None.



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