Splash documentation
Last checked against Splash 1.0.0 / 2026-08-15
Splash arrives already filled in with the demo store's copy and figures. The photographs do not travel with it, so every image slot is empty until you upload your own. Setting it up is an editing job rather than a building job, and the order below is the order that avoids doing anything twice.
Start here#
The one path from a fresh install to a store a shopper can buy from, in order. Start here even if you plan to skip parts of it, because a few steps happen outside the theme editor and the rest depends on them.
The theme ships with another store's certification numbers, testimonials and shipping figures saved into it, and they are your live storefront until you change them. This is the list of every one and where it lives.
Make it yours#
Logo, favicon, the colour settings, the two typefaces and how wide the store runs.
The hero and its three photographs, the category directory, featured products, testimonials, the quote band and the certifications band.
A mega menu is produced by the depth of your Shopify menu unless a block's Layout setting overrides it, which is the one thing here that surprises people.
Announcement bar, footer and cart
The bar above the header, the footer columns and social row, and the choice between a cart drawer and a cart page.
Sell your products#
The metafields behind the specification table and the comparison bars. Three other pages depend on these existing, so do this one first.
The gallery, the buy box, the specification block, add-ons and recommendations.
The card grid, the filter rail, and the filter and sort bar that pins to the foot of a phone.
Shipping, returns and search engines
The figures that appear on the product page and are also published to search engines, which is why they are worth getting right.
Quote requests#
What the feature is for, and when to reach for it. Read this before the three how-tos if the idea is new to you.
Tag a product and its whole buy stack is replaced, wherever that product appears.
The page, the fields, the narrative column beside them, and where a submitted request arrives.
Making a field appear only after a particular answer, so you ask about the existing pool only of the people renovating one.
Every field type the form builder offers, with its settings.
Content and questions#
Two ways to place a set of questions, and how to aim one at a particular kind of page.
Articles, the share row, and ordinary pages.
Reference#
Everything under Theme settings, with its default and what it changes.
Everything that appears as a section or a block in a template, and which templates accept it.
Understand Splash#
Why Splash shows nothing rather than a guess
Several places where the theme deliberately prints nothing, or a rule, instead of filling a gap. Worth reading when something has not appeared and you have already checked the obvious.
If something here is wrong#
Every page carries the theme version it was last checked against, and the date. If a step does not match what you see, send a screenshot. Documentation goes stale faster than code, and a page that has not been rechecked is more dangerous than one that does not exist.
Something wrong here If a step does not match what you see, say so and it gets fixed. Documentation goes stale, which is why the line under the title carries a date.