How to Add and Customize Special Products

Getting Started

This section is a very convenient tool to use for highlighting specific products. These products can be limited / rare products that are exclusive to the store, high-demand products, or anything of the sort. Utilizing this feature allows for a much more apparent broadcast of items than a standard product block, though it is still explicit than the Single Product Block, which highlights and showcase only one product. This page will focus on adding and editing your Special Products.

Adding Special Product Blocks

To begin adding and customizing your product blocks, please follow these steps:

From your myShopify home page, select Online Store > Customize
On the customization side bar on the left of the page, scroll down to Add Section
From the Add Section selection, add Special Products
Following the addition, scroll up and find and select the Special Products

Customizing Special Products

Once you have opened the block and begun customization, you will notice several editable categories:

Main Title Background Image
Link
Main Title
Length of Character for Short Product Description
Collection
Total Products from Collection
Max Products Row
Show View All Button

Main Title Background Image

In this section you have the option to add an image as a sort of background image for whatever you decide to title this Special Products section. Please be aware that you can also leave this section blank. If you want to add an image, you have the ability to add your background image by selecting Select image. Please also be aware of the size of the image that you choose. You will notice instructions and recommendations for image size in this section. It will look something like this:

If you choose an image that is larger than the recommended size, the quality and visibility is very likely to suffer as a result. Please understand that this size recommendation is based on optimization across all potential viewing platforms (computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.)

After you have chosen your image, you will notice another customization option become available: Add alt text.

Adding alt text is a good way for your to include addition descriptions that will appear just beneath your logo. You can add up to 255 characters to this alt text feature

Link

This section allows for an optional hyperlink to be added. By adding whatever related link you want to in the given text box, customers will be able to select the icon and be taken directly to the associated webpage. You have the option to input a specific URL or select the related webpage from the given directory. That directory will look something like this:

Main Title

This section focuses on the naming of the Special Products. Whatever Title you give this section will appear at the top. If you have add a background image, the title will overlay it. We recommend playing around and experimenting with this feature in order to find what works best for your purposes.

Length of Characters for Short Product Description

In this section you can input a numerical value that will limit how much of a product's description will be visible. Please be aware that if you input a non-numerical value, it will not register. Including a numerical value that is less than the total character value of the product's description will result in an incomplete description being displayed.

For example, if you set your Character Length to 80 and your products have descriptions with character lengths of around 200, there will be around 120 characters that are not displayed in this section. Customers will need to open the product page to read the complete description

Collection

In order to add products to Special Products, they will need to have already been added to a specific collection. You can find more information on adding products to a collection by reading How to Add and Manage Collections. Once added to that collection, you can link the specific collection here. You can find and add your needed collection by clicking Select Collection. It should look something like this:

Total Products from Collection

This section features a single adjustable cline that allows for the display of between 8 and 20 products from the chosen collection. Not all will necessarily be visible at once, but there will be the option to scroll through groupings of the products by utilizing the arrow keys on both the right and left sides of the given products.

Max Products Row

This section allows for your to adjust the number of rows of products visible in this block. The drop down currently only allows for a choice between 1 and 2 product rows. We recommend experimenting with these features to find a look that best fits your store's vision.

Show View All Button

This final option is a simple check box that allows for you to toggle the View All button. This button, if utilized, allows for the customer to go directly to the collection page. This will allow them to easily browse all of the products in the selected collection,, including those that were not previously visible on the Special Products block