Winter ’25 Enhancements: Theme Blocks

February 26, 2025

Winter ’25 Enhancements: Theme Blocks

Overview:

In the process of personalizing your Shopify store, you might come across the phrase “theme blocks.” However, what are theme blocks and how can they contribute to the creation of a flexible Shopify theme?

We’ll describe Shopify theme blocks in this blog post, along with how they function and how you can use them to improve the look of your business without knowing any complicated code!

What Are Theme Blocks for Shopify?

In Shopify, a theme block is a reusable content element that may be positioned inside a theme section of your store. Without changing the theme’s core code, these blocks let merchants simply alter the layout of their stores.

👉 To create unique page designs, you can add, remove, and rearrange theme blocks inside sections, much like you would with design elements.

Principal Advantages of Theme Blocks
✅ Flexibility: Blocks within a section can be moved or rearranged with ease.
✅ Reusability: A single block can be utilized in several pages or sections.
✅ Customization: Without knowing any code, merchants may add text, photos, videos, and more.
✅ Performance: Your store operates quickly thanks to lightweight blocks.

Important Theme Block Features

✅ Reusable Blocks
Use a block that has been defined once in several parts. This decreases repeated code and increases the efficiency of theme development.

✅ Up to eight levels deep in nested blocks!
Blocks can now be layered up to eight levels deep within other blocks. This is particularly helpful when creating intricate user interface elements like interactive elements, multi-column layouts, and dropdown menus.

✅ Passing Dynamic Data
By passing context from parent to child blocks using dynamic sources, you can make sure that content changes according to where it is in the theme. This makes dynamic content rendering and more robust customization options possible.

Why Should Your Shopify Store Use Theme Blocks?

For developers and retailers, Shopify’s theme blocks are transformative. This is the reason:

✔️ Adding blocks is simple with Shopify’s drag-and-drop editor; no code is required.
✔️ Update content on pages more quickly without changing theme files.
✔️ Enhanced store design: With only a few clicks, you may alter page layouts.
✔️ Improved consumer experience: Dynamically display interesting stuff such as banners, reviews, and highlighted products.

How to Set up a Shopify Theme Block

If you’re a developer or store owner wishing to modify a Shopify theme, follow these steps to build a theme block:

Step 1: Create a theme block file.

Make a new block file in the /blocks folder inside your Shopify theme:

📂 blocks/custom-text.liquid Include the following information in custom-text.liquid:

{{ block.settings.text }}

{% schema %}

{

"name": "Custom Text Block",

"target": "section",

"settings": [

{

"type": "text",

"id": "text",

"label": "Text",

"default": "Hello from a theme block!"

}

]

}

{% endschema %}

Step 2: Utilize a Section’s Theme Block

Now, enable theme blocks to be used in the section file where you wish to use this block, such as sections/custom-section.liquid:

{% for block in section.blocks %}

{% render block %}

{% endfor %}{% schema %}

{

"name": "Custom Section",

"blocks": [

{

"type": "@theme"

}

],

"presets": [

{

"name": "Custom Section"

}

]

}

{% endschema %}

Step 3: Use the Theme Editor to add the section to a page.
Go to Online Store → Customize → Themes
Add a Custom Section Add a Custom Text Block inside the section
Use the theme editor to dynamically alter the text.

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