Clean Template

What is A Clean Template

A Clean template is a clone of the default templates of your current theme that hides specific sections (You decide which section to show/hide).

Why a Clean template:

• When creating a new template for a specific page based on the Default template, you may want to remove/hide certain sections of the Default template. Then you add new App Sections to create unique content for the new template.
• You might perform a repetitive task (removing the default sections) when creating new templates or editing templates migrated from an old theme.
• You can use a Clean template as a base template instead of using the Default template when creating a new template or migrating a template.
• When creating a new template, you have complete control to keep/remove any Sections from the Default template.

Creating a clean template is optional though.  

If you do not create a Clean template, all content blocks added using the Easy Content Builder will appear at the bottom of the pages (below the default content blocks of your current page).

The difference between the Default template and the Clean template:

How to create a Clean template

You need to create a separate Clean template for each type of page: product page, webpage page, and blog post page. Once created, the Clean template files will come with the .clean suffix (product.clean.json, page.clean.json, article.clean.json).

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 - Create a Clean template for Product pages. The same rule applies to other types of pages - Webpages and Blog Post pages. 

Create a Clean template for products:

• From your Shopify admin, click Online Store > Themes.
• Find your current theme, and then click Customize.
• From the Shopify Theme editor, tab Products > click Create template in the dropdown menu.

• Then enter clean to the Name field & set the Based on to Default product.

Similarly, to create a Clean template for Pages:

• From your Shopify admin, click Online Store > Themes.
• Find your current theme, and then click Customize.
• From the Shopify Theme editor, tab Products > click Create template in the dropdown menu.
• Then enter clean to the Name field & set the Based on to Default page.

And, to ceate a Clean template for Blog Posts:

• From your Shopify admin, click Online Store > Themes.
• Find your current theme, and then click Customize.
• From the Shopify Theme editor, tab Products > click Create template in the dropdown menu.
• Then enter clean to the Name field & set the Based on to Default Blog.

How to disable/remove sections in a Clean template

• From your Shopify admin, click Online Store > Themes.
• Find your current theme, and then click Customize.
• From the Shopify Theme editor, tab Products (Pages or Blog Posts) > click clean template
• Click any section on the sidebar that you want to disable, then click the eye icon to hide or unhide a section.
• (Optional) To remove a section, click a section and click Remove section at the bottom of the sidebar.

Note: Shopify does not allow you to remove some core sections, you can only hide them instead.

FAQs

Q. When should I use a Clean Template?

A. It’s a good idea to create Clean Templates if you want to create a new template or migrate content blocks to a new theme without any default sections from your current theme.

Q. Do I need to create a Clean template one time only?

A. Yes, you just need to create a single Clean Template for each page type (Product/Page/Blog Post) once only.

Q. When editing a product/page/blog post page, can I switch my existing page to a Clean template via the Theme Template dropdown?

A. No, you should create and manage the Clean Templates via the Shopify Theme Editor only (as instructed above).