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Sections

Sections are the cornerstone of your store. You define and style your sections in Instant Commerce and then use them in your CMS to house your content. You can only use sections you published from Instant Commerce in your CMS, but you won't need any development effort to build, rearrange, or style pages.

Your store starts out without any sections in it, but there is a wide range of sections available in Instant Commerce that you can add to your store.

Add sections​

Variety is the spice of life! In our case, having more sections for your store allows you to make more interesting page layouts for your content.

To add a section:

  1. Open your Store and click Customize in the top right corner.
  2. On the Navigation bar, open Sections and click Add section in the bottom left corner.
  3. A window will pop up in which you can search all the sections available on the Instant Commerce platform or browse them per category.
  4. When you've found a section you want to add, click on it. (This will show you a preview.)
  5. If you're sure that you want to use this section, click Add section.

The section is now part of your section inventory. Publish it to your CMS so you can use it.

Style sections​

  1. Open your Store and click Customize in the top right corner.
  2. On the Navigation bar, open Sections and locate the section you want to style.
  3. Click the Section. It will be displayed in the live preview in the center of the screen.
  4. Use the Editing bar on the right side to style the section. Changes will be reflected directly in the live preview.
  5. Save or Save & Publish once you're done making changes.

Duplicate sections​

When you want to re-use a section but style it differently, you can duplicate that section and edit it separately.

  1. Open your Store and click Customize in the top right corner.
  2. On the Navigation bar, open Sections and locate the section you want to duplicate.
  3. Click the three dots on the right side of the Section and select Duplicate.
  4. Enter a Section name and Submit.
  5. (Optional) Style the section.
  6. Save or Save & Publish.

Remove sections​

If you don't need a section anymore, you can remove it.

  1. Open your Store and click Customize in the top right corner.
  2. On the Navigation bar, open Sections and locate the section you want to remove.
  3. Click the three dots on the right side of the Section and select Remove section.
caution

A section is removed immediately when you select Remove section!

If you deleted a section you didn't mean to, you can add that section again.