Guide for Fright Delights

Open the theme editor

In the left menu click Online Store. Next to the Fright Delights theme click Edit theme.

Find your way around

1. 1Choose the page you want to change: home page, a product page, Events, Journal…
2. 2All blocks of this page, in the same order as on the site. Header blocks are at the top, footer blocks at the bottom.
3. 3Save. Your changes reach the site only after you click it. The arrows next to it undo the last steps.

Open another page

Click the page name at the top. Pages holds About us, Events & Experiences, FAQ, Contact and the other pages. Blogs is the Journal. Products and Collections are the layouts shared by all product and collection pages, so a change there applies to every one of them at once.

Change a text

1. 1Click the text right on the page.
2. 2Its field opens on the left. Type the new text there; bold, italic and links are in the small toolbar above it.

Change a picture

Click the block with the picture. On the left, click the image and then Change: upload a new file or pick one you uploaded before. For wide banners use large horizontal photos, 2000 px wide or more.

Hide, move or add blocks

1. 1Point at a line in the list: the eye hides or shows the block (a hidden block stays saved), the bin deletes it.
2. 2Drag the six dots to move the block up or down the page.
3. 3The small arrow opens the parts inside a block: heading, text, buttons. Add block adds one more part.
4. 4Add section adds a new block to the page.

Menus

1. 1The links in the top menu and in the footer are edited in Content → Menus.
2. 2Main menu is the top navigation (SHOP, Events, Journal, About, FAQ, Contact, Subscribe) with everything inside the SHOP drop-down. Its By Category item holds one link per room: these are the picture tiles of SHOP → By Category.
3. 3Manor menu holds the categories (rooms) with their subcategories nested under each one. It fills the “Shop the Manor” column of the footer and the subcategory links under the tiles in SHOP → By Category, the category › subcategory label on product pages and the subcategory buttons on category pages (see Part 3).
4. 4Footer menu is the “Menu” column of the footer.
5. 5Featured footer menu is the “Featured” column.
6. 6Footer policies is the row of links at the very bottom: shipping, returns, privacy and so on.

Start a new product

1. 1Open Products.
2. 2Click Add product.

Name, description, photos

1. 1Name, as customers will see it.
2. 2Description: what it is, materials, sizes.
3. 3Photos: drag the files here. The first photo is the main one; drag the photos to change their order.
4. 4Category is optional, it is Shopify’s own classification. Never choose Event Tickets for a product: that turns it into an event.
5. 5Status: Active is on sale, Draft is saved but hidden from visitors.
6. 6Save when everything is filled in.

Price, stock and sizes

1. 1Price.
2. 2Compare-at is the old price. With it the product shows as discounted and joins the Sale collection by itself.
3. 3How many you have in stock. At 0 the product shows as sold out, unless it is a pre-order (2.6).
4. 4SKU, your stock code. Optional.
5. 5Weight, used to calculate shipping.
6. 6Sizes or colours: Add options like size or color creates variants, each with its own price and stock.

Category, collections and tags

1. 1Type is the category: pick one of the nine from the list (first table). The product then appears on the page of its room, in SHOP → By Category and in Shop all, and its type becomes the CATEGORY filter. Please don’t invent new types: a new type has no room until you add one (3.4).
2. 2Collections lists every collection the product is in. Only two are added by hand, with the + next to the title: Treasures of the Manor (the home page, see 2.7) and Fright Delights Picks. All the others, including its room and subcategory, fill themselves.
3. 3Tags: each tag puts the product into one of the other collections (second table). Start typing and pick the tag from the list, so it is spelled exactly right.
4. 4Theme template: keep Default product.

Subcategory and filters

Scroll to the bottom of the product page, to Product metafields.

1. 1Subcategory: pick one from the list, one of the subcategories of the product’s Type (see the table in 2.4). The product appears on that subcategory page by itself and fills the SUBCATEGORY filter.
2. 2Filter by collections: pick the same collections as the tags, for example New arrivals and Halloween. This fills the COLLECTION filter.
3. 3Excerpt: an optional one-line text, shown on the Curated Gifts cards.

Event date and Event address are for events only, so leave them empty. Click Save: the product shows on the site within a minute, and its pages and filters update by themselves.

Pre-orders

For an item you sell before it arrives:

• set the stock quantity to 0;
• add the tag preorder, and in Filter by collections pick Pre-orders;
• save, then open Apps → STOQ → Preorders, open the Pre-orders offer and add the product there.

New products are not added to the offer automatically. The free STOQ plan covers 10 pre-orders a month.

Show a product on the home page

The Bestsellers block “Treasures of the Manor” on the home page shows the products of the collection with the same name. This collection is filled by hand: a new product appears there only after you add it.

Open the product, find Collections in Product organization and click the + next to it:

1. 1Type “Treasures of the Manor”.
2. 2Tick it and click Save. To take a product off the home page, untick it the same way.

Choose which products the home page shows

The block shows the first 6 products of the collection. To choose which six, open Products → Collections → Treasures of the Manor:

1. 1Switch to the list view.
2. 2The order here is the order on the site while Default sort stays on Manually. Drag a product by the six dots to move it: the top six are on the home page.
3. 3This button adds or removes several products at once: tick or untick them and click Done.

If a Save button appears at the top of the page, click it.

How it works

• Category = room. Each room is an automated collection that collects the products of one Type, for example The Library = Type Books.
• Subcategory is the Subcategory field of the product. Each subcategory is an automated collection that collects the products with that value, for example Cookbooks & Cocktail Books.
• The Manor menu says which subcategories belong to which room and in what order. The site reads it everywhere: the links under the tiles in SHOP → By Category, the category › subcategory label on product pages, the buttons on category pages and the “Shop the Manor” column of the footer.
• The rooms of the “Explore the Manor” map on the home page and on About us open the same category pages.

Category and subcategory pages

1. 1On a category page the buttons lead to its subcategories; “All” is the whole room.
2. 2On a subcategory page the first button and the line above the title lead back to the room.

Add a subcategory

Three short steps, in this order:

1. 1Add the new value to the list: Settings → Metafields and metaobjects → Products → Subcategory. Type the name at the end of the list and click Save. Now it can be picked on products.
2. 2Create its page: Products → Collections → Create collection. Give it the name, choose Automated and set the condition Subcategory · is equal to · the new value. Keep it on the Online Store channel and click Save.
3. 3Put it under its room: Content → Menus → Manor menu, open the room with the arrow and click Add menu item to … under it (the button carries the room’s name). Link it to the new collection and click Save.

From now on every product with this Subcategory shows on its page, in the SHOP menu, on the room page and in the filter.

Add a category

1. 1Create the room: Products → Collections → Create collection. Name it, choose Automated and set the condition Type · is equal to · the new type, exactly as you will type it on products. Add a picture (it becomes the tile in the SHOP menu) and a short description (shown under the title). Keep it on the Online Store channel and click Save.
2. 2Add it to Main menu → SHOP → By Category (the tile) and to Manor menu (top level), then nest its subcategories under it in the Manor menu (3.3).
3. 3On new products, type the new Type once; after that it appears in the list.

Rename a category or a subcategory

• Rename the collection: Products → Collections → open it → change the title. The page heading, the product label and the category buttons follow.
• Rename its items in the menus: Manor menu, and for a room also Main menu → SHOP → By Category.
• The Type and the Subcategory value behind it can stay as they are: they are only the keys that sort products, shoppers see them just in the CATEGORY and SUBCATEGORY filters. If you want to change a value too, add the new one, switch the products to it, change the condition of the collection, and only then remove the old value.

Create the event

Products → Add product, then:

1. 1Event name.
2. 2Full description, shown on the event’s own page.
3. 3Photo. The first photo is used on the event card and on the event page.
4. 4Category: type “Event Tickets” and choose Event Tickets in Arts & Entertainment. This is what makes it an event.
5. 5Ticket price.
6. 6Tag: one of Workshops Markets Seasonal Community. It decides the tab the event sits under.
7. 7Theme template: choose event.

Number of tickets

In Inventory enter how many tickets you sell. When it reaches 0, tickets can no longer be bought.

Place, date and short text

Scroll down to Product metafields:

1. 1Event address: the venue and street, or “Online”.
2. 2Event date: pick it in the calendar.
3. 3Excerpt: one or two sentences for the event card.

Click Save. Leave Subcategory and Filter by collections empty for events.

How it shows on the site

1. 1The tags become the tabs of the event list.
2. 2Photo
3. 3Tag
4. 4Event name
5. 5Excerpt
6. 6Event date
7. 7Event address

The big “Upcoming Events” card

On the Events page the large card shows the nearest upcoming event by date. To change it, open the theme editor, choose Pages → events-experiences and click the block X: Featured article.

Leave Event (overrides the collection) empty to follow the dates automatically, or pick an event to pin it. The Curiosity Market is pinned there now, so clear the field once your real events are in. The red label above the card is Badge label (empty shows “Event of the month”).

The strip at the top of every page

1. 1In the theme editor click the strip on the page (it belongs to the Header).
2. 2Event page: the event the strip announces; LEARN MORE opens it.
3. 3Date override: optional. Type the date as 2026-12-11; leave it empty to show the event’s own date.

Start a post

1. 1Open Content.
2. 2Open Blog posts.
3. 3Click Add blog post.

Fill in the post

1. 1Title.
2. 2Text of the post. Pictures go in with the image button of the toolbar.
3. 3Excerpt: optional, a 1–2 sentence summary for search results.
4. 4Cover image: the picture on the journal card and at the top of the post.
5. 5Visible publishes the post. Hidden keeps it as a draft; the calendar icon schedules a date.
6. 6Blog: keep News, that is the Journal.
7. 7Tag: exactly one of blog_type:articles blog_type:guide blog_type:inspiration
8. 8Save.

Chapters and the table of contents

1. 1Put the cursor on a line and open this list.
2. 2Choose Heading 2. Every Heading 2 becomes a chapter and a link in the post’s table of contents.

The tag decides the tab

1. 1The blog is News, the Journal.
2. 2The tag, here blog_type:inspiration.