Getting started
Chapter 1 of the Wick user guide.
What's in your download
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
Wick-1.0.0-wick.zip | The theme with the Wick preset: hand-poured candles |
Wick-1.0.0-lather.zip | The theme with the Lather preset: soap, bath and body |
Wick-1.0.0-vesper.zip | The theme with the Vesper preset: luxury home fragrance |
Wick-user-guide.pdf | This guide |
LICENSE.txt | Your licence: one store per purchase |
The three zips are the same theme. A preset only decides the starting palette, fonts, words, home page, product page, gift box page, header and footer, and you can change all of them afterwards. Products, photos and demo text are not included: a fresh install shows your own products, and sections that need a product or collection show placeholders until you choose one.
Presets
| Preset | For | Palette | Fonts | Cards | Home page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wick | Hand-poured candles, wax melts and diffusers | Beeswax | Fraunces headings, Nunito Sans body | Portrait 4:5, glowing in each product's scent family color | Candlelit hero with the copy on a label, shop by scent (six families), bestsellers, build a gift box (box of 3 or 6), a "50+ hours" burn story, scent of the month on a dusk band, the maker's story, testimonials |
| Lather | Cold-process soap, bath salts and body butter | Sage | Marcellus headings (its italics run in Nunito Sans), Nunito Sans body | Square 1:1, glowing in the scent family color | Split hero, shop by scent (six families), this month's batch, the ingredient story, build a soap stack (stack of 3 or 5), testimonials |
| Vesper | Luxury home fragrance in small editions | Smoke (dark) | Cormorant headings, Nunito Sans body | Tall 3:4, glowing in candlelight | Tall candlelit hero, the house scent on a dusk band, shop by scent (four families), the collection, the atelier story, build an evening box (box of 2 or 3), press quotes |
Every preset's product page has the same buy box: scent family and rating, title, subtitle, price, Scent notes, variant picker, buy buttons, a gift box link, three perk lines, stock, back-in-stock request, pickup and description. Under it, the Product details section holds the burn label, Care and safety and an "Ingredients" row, then "Pairs well with" and "You might also like" recommendations. Lather's burn label is "In the bar" (cure time, oils, essential oils, weight and size) with soap care text; Vesper's care row is "Vessel and diffuser care". The fourth palette, Rosewater (dusty rose and plum, for bath and body, gifting and florals), has no preset of its own; choose it in Theme settings › Colors on any preset.
Every preset also ships these templates, which you assign to pages in admin (Online Store › Pages, then the page's Theme template field):
| Template | Use it for | What's on it |
|---|---|---|
page.gift-box | Your gift box builder page (chapter 10) | Build a gift box and a "Gift box questions" FAQ |
page.contact | Your contact page | The contact form ("Send us a note") with an order number field and two text columns |
page.compare | Side-by-side comparison (chapter 4) | The comparison table |
The presets link to /pages/gift-box from the hero and in Theme settings › Gifting › Gift box page, so give your gift box page the handle gift-box, or change those links.
Install
- In Shopify admin, go to Online Store › Themes.
- In the Theme library, click Add theme › Upload zip file and choose the zip of the preset you want. Don't unzip it first.
- When the upload finishes, click Customize to open the theme editor and make it yours.
- When you're ready, click Publish (on the theme's … menu in the library, or from the editor). You can upload a second preset next to it to compare; only the published theme is live.
First steps
- Brand: Theme settings › Brand: your logo, or the shop name with a flame above it and a short line under it, and a favicon.
- Colors and fonts: Theme settings › Colors › Color palette, then Typography (chapter 2).
- Menus: in admin, Content › Menus: build the main menu and footer menus (chapter 3).
- Real numbers and promises: the presets ship with demo words. Set Theme settings › Commerce › Free shipping over to your own threshold (or 0), and rewrite the announcement bar, hero facts, perk lines, testimonials and the gift box tags ("Save 10%") so they only promise what you offer.
- Scent and burn data: create the metafield definitions (chapter 7) and fill them on a few products to see scent notes, family glows, the strength meter and the burn label appear.
- Gift box: make a collection of the products shoppers can box, a packaging product per box size if you charge for the box, a page with the
page.gift-boxtemplate, and the automatic discounts behind your box tags (chapter 10). - Gift wrap: create a gift wrap product and choose it in Theme settings › Gifting (chapter 12).
- Filters: install Shopify's free Search & Discovery app and add the Scent family filter, so the shop by scent tiles and the collection page's scent chips work (chapter 9).