How to Duplicate Themes

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Getting Started

 

One extremely useful tool to utilize when creating and customizing themes for your store's website is duplication. 

 

Why Duplicate a Theme?

The short answer:

  • You want to review updates before applying them to your theme page
  • You customized the BinderPOS master theme after installing it and don't want all the new updates

 

The long answer:

Because we are always working to keep our themes up to date with the newest and best features, we will often push updates. This can be problematic for stores because these updates can lead to carefully created store themes becoming more difficult to navigate or less aesthetically appealing. It is important to note, however, that the only themes that will have automatic updates pushed to them are the themes that were native to your store's account when signing up with BinderPOS; these function as a kind of master theme. By duplicating these master themes, your store can create exact and fully functioning replicas, without all the potential downsides that unexpected updates may create. In order to help your store more easily navigate new updates and keep your website looking exactly as intended, this article will instruct on how to duplicate carefully crafted themes.

 

How to Duplicate

The overall process for creating a duplicate of a previously created theme is simple. In order to do so, follow these steps:

  1. From your store's Shopify Admin, select Online Store > Themes
  2. From the Themes section, find the created theme that is being duplicated and select the More Options icon ( ... )
  3. From the ( ... ) button, select Duplicate

 

 

 

 

After Duplicating

After you have successfully duplicated the theme, the sky is your limit! Feel free to rename this theme so that you remember it is a stable variant that will not be changed with automatically pushed updates. From here, the duplicated theme can be pushed to be the live store theme, while the updating master variant can be a sandbox for testing out constantly evolving theme settings. 

 

Check out Shopify's documentation for more information on Duplicating Themes.

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