Theme settings reference

Last checked against Splash 1.0.0 / 2026-08-15

Splash has 66 global settings, grouped into nine sections at the foot of the theme editor sidebar. This page lists all of them in the editor's own order, with the type, the default and one line on what each one changes.

To reach them: Online Store, then Themes, then Customize, then Theme settings at the bottom of the sidebar. Everything here is global. A global setting applies to every template at once and cannot be overridden on a single page. Settings that belong to one section or one block are listed separately in the section and block reference.

Several settings arrive holding the demo store's own values rather than the theme's defaults. Each one is marked in its table below, and they are listed together under What the theme ships, near the foot of this page.

Brand#

Working guide: apply your brand.

SEO and structured data#

The largest group, split into seven headed subgroups. Every field is optional and nothing is added to your pages until you fill it in. Structured data is what search engines read; some of these settings also print a visible block on the product page.

Organization#

Social profiles#

Seven text fields. Each one you fill in adds its icon to the footer and declares that profile to search engines. The footer order is fixed as listed below and cannot be rearranged from the editor. Empty fields are left out.

These are plain text fields rather than link pickers, so they accept anything you type. A bare domain such as instagram.com/yourstore has https:// added to it. A single # shows the icon in the footer so you can preview the row before the accounts exist, and is deliberately withheld from search engines. Anything that is not an http address or a path inside your own store becomes an inert broken link.

Contact details#

Shipping details#

These settings do two jobs at once. They print a visible Shipping list on the product page, and they build the shipping markup search engines read. The visible list needs the Shipping and returns block on your product template; the markup does not.

Note The visible Shipping list needs a rate, a free shipping threshold, a per-product note, or a handling or delivery time. Filling in only Ships to produces no block at all, so your destinations do not appear either.

Returns#

Product identifiers#

Ratings#

Both fields must be filled before either is used, and the product must hold a value in both metafields. Together they feed the Rating block on the product page and the rating in that product's structured data.

Requires A review app that writes these metafields. Splash has no way to enter a rating by hand, and search engines expect a rating in your markup to be visible on the page, so add the Rating block to your product template when you fill these in.

Working guide: shipping, returns and search engine details.

Product cards#

Applies to product cards everywhere: collection pages, search results, featured products and recommendations. Working guide: collection and search pages.

Product specs#

Three metafields shown as rows on product cards across the store. These settings do not fill the specification table on the product page; that table and the spec bars beside it carry their own metafield fields inside their own blocks.

Note A key pointing at a metafield your products do not have looks exactly like a product with no value: the row is left out and nothing reports an error. The three keys ship pointing at pool pump measurements from the demo store, so on your own catalog they will find nothing until you change them.

Working guide: show your specifications.

Quote requests#

Requires A page assigned the Quote template for Quote request page to point at. See build the quote request form, and quote-only products for the tag.

Cart#

The cart page exists and works under either setting. Working guide: announcement bar, footer and cart.

Typography#

Both pickers draw on Shopify's own font library. The theme also loads bold, italic and bold italic for each. It asks for weight 500 on both, and weight 600 on the primary only. Each of those two is loaded only where the family you pick carries it, so a family without them falls back to the nearest weight it does have.

Layout#

Several sections work out how wide a picture will really be drawn from these two numbers and ask Shopify for a file that size, so widening the store makes those images request larger files on their own.

Colors#

Eight colours and one corner radius. The group is labelled Colors in the editor.

The announcement bar carries its own three colour overrides in its section settings, and falls back to the band pair above when they are left empty.

Note The in-stock, low-stock and out-of-stock colours are fixed in the theme and do not follow the accent. They are functional signals rather than brand, and they are set to clear the contrast requirement on all three grounds a stock badge can land on.

Working guide: apply your brand.

What the theme ships#

Splash arrives with saved values for some settings, taken from the demo store rather than from the theme's own defaults. They are there so a new install has something to look at, and every one of them is yours to change. Two of them publish claims to search engines as soon as the store opens.

The returns fields not listed here already match their defaults: a 30-day window, a full refund, return shipping paid by the store, returned by mail. Both master switches being on means those terms, and the shipping terms above them, publish on your product pages and to search engines from the day you install. Review them before the store opens. Everything else, including the logo, the favicon, the colours, the fonts, the seven social fields and every structured data field, ships empty or at the default listed in the tables above.

Working guide: replace the demo content.

Three things worth knowing before you type#

Money fields take bare numbers#

Free shipping over and Flat shipping rate are text fields, and the theme reads them as a figure in your store currency and formats them itself. Write 500, not $500 and not 500 USD. A currency symbol makes the line print as $0.00 on the page, which is the symptom to look for. Decimals are fine: 49.99 works.

Metafield fields take namespace and key, with exactly one dot#

Eight settings on this page ask for a metafield: the three spec keys, the shipping note, brand, GTIN, MPN and the two rating fields. All of them want the namespace and the key separated by a single dot.

specs.flow_rate      correct
custom.shipping_note correct
flow_rate            no namespace, reads nothing
specs/flow_rate      wrong separator, reads nothing
specs.pump.flow_rate two dots, reads nothing

You can copy both parts from Settings, then Custom data, then Products, where each definition lists its namespace and key. A wrong key never reports an error. It looks identical to a product that has no value, so check against a product you know is filled in.

The eight colours produce far more than eight tones#

Splash stores no hairline colour, no grey text colour and no link colour. It mixes them from your eight settings every time a page is drawn, so a recolour stays coherent instead of leaving stray teal behind. Two consequences catch people out:

The same principle governs Foreground. It is not only your body text: every rule, muted line and field border in the store is mixed from it. Set it to a mid-grey and all of them lighten together. Change it in small steps and look at a product page after each one.

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.