Create Product Templates

Create a Product template

You can easily create a unique individual template for each of your products that presents specialized information and rich content blocks.

Info: When creating a product template using the Easy Content Builder, your original product page URL remains unchanged. 

Step 1: Create a new product:

• From your Shopify admin, go to Products.
• From the Products page, click Add product.
• Enter a title for your product, along with additional details.
• Click Save.

Note:  If you want to create a template for an existing product, simply go to your Shopify admin > Products > click the name of the product that you want, then follow Step 2 below.

Step 2 (optional): Create a Clean template

A Clean template allows you to hide/remove unused sections of your default templates and only display custom app sections created by the Easy Content Builder.

We recommend you create three Clean templates, each for a type of page - Product page, Webpage, and Blog Post page. Once created, you will have three Clean template files with the .clean suffix (product.clean.json, page.clean.json, article.clean.json).

Learn more about What a Clean template is and How to create a Clean template.

Note: For each type of page (Product page, Webpage, Blog Post page), you just need one Clean template only. If a Clean template for the product pages does exist, please discard Step 2 - Create a Clean template for Product pages. The same rule applies to other types of pages - Webpages and Blog Post pages. 

Step 3: Create a product template

Step 3.1: Create a product template with prebuilt Easy Content Builder templates

• From the Product Edit page, click More actions (that appears in the upper-right of the form), click Create Template for this product:

• From Easy Content Builder dashboard, you can create a new template based on:
  • Create a new template based on existing templates of the main theme: This option is only visible if you did build templates using the Easy Content Builder app before. It allows you to speed up the workflow by reusing those templates.
  • Blank Template: a minimal page template with only a Section title block that serves as a starting point for developing your custom page.
  • Blog Post templates: a bundle of predesigned page layouts for Blog Post pages.  
  • Page templates: a bundle of predesigned page layouts for webpage pages.
  • Product templates: a bundle of predesigned page layouts for Product pages.

• When prompted to confirm, click ‘OK’. Then, you will be automatically directed to the Theme Editor where you can start adding content blocks to the template you’ve just created (Please refer to section Adding ECB Blocks for more details).

Step 3.2 (Optional): Create a product template from the Theme Editor

Besides the standard workflow in Step 3.1, you can also create a new template from the dropdown menu in the Theme Editor:

• From the dropdown menu in the Theme Editor, click Products, then scroll down and click Create template.

• From the Theme Editor, you can start adding content blocks to the template you’ve just created.

Step 4: Assign a template to the product you've just created.

If you complete Step 3.1 Create a product template with prebuilt Easy Content Builder templates, the app automatically assigns the template you've created to the selected product. 

When you want to manually assign available templates to a product, you can follow these steps:

• Go to the Shopify admin > Products, open the product you want and assign the template you’ve created (under the Theme Template section).

Next Step:

Once the new Product template is in place, you can start adding content blocks (Please refer to the section Customize Template with Theme Editor and ECB Block Settings for more details)