Mercantile Supply · Merchant guide

Category grid

Cards that link to your main collections, with an image, a colour or an icon. Show a few and keep the rest behind "Show more", or show them all.

Where to find it

In the theme editor, Add section › Category grid. The theme starts with it on: Home page.

Settings

Setting Choices Shows when What it does
Density Follow theme · Compact · Normal · Spacious Always Space, columns and image shape in this section. Follow theme uses Density in Theme settings › Layout.
Text size Default · Smaller · Standard · Larger Always Makes this section's text and title smaller or larger than its Density sets.
Color scheme Always
Heading Always
Card style Large panels · Icon tiles Always
Card image Image when there is one · Color and icon · Image, color and icon Card style is Large panels Image, color and icon lays the card's color over its image, with the icon on top.
Show product count On · Off Always
Show all categories On · Off Always Renders every category immediately, with no "Show more" control and no link to the rest.
Link label Show all categories is off Shown only while some categories wait behind "Show more". When they all fit, the link is hidden.
Link Show all categories is off
Categories shown at first Show all categories is off Ignored when "Show all categories" is on.

Which settings reveal which:

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  card_style["Card style"]
  card_media["Card image"]
  show_all_categories["Show all categories"]
  link_label["Link label"]
  link_url["Link"]
  visible_limit["Categories shown at first"]
  card_style -- "is Large panels" --> card_media
  show_all_categories -- "off" --> link_label
  show_all_categories -- "off" --> link_url
  show_all_categories -- "off" --> visible_limit

Blocks

Category

Setting Choices Shows when What it does
Collection Always
Heading Always
Image Always
Icon Automatic (from the collection name) · No icon · Agriculture · Armchair · Audio · Baby · Backpack · Bags · Bakery · Barricade · Bathtub · Battery · Beauty · Bedding · Beverages · Bicycles · Books · Broom · Buildings · Business · Cameras · Car · Catering · Cleaning · Climate · Clothing · Coffee and tea · Computers · Confectionery · Cooling · Cube · Dairy · Decorating · Delivery · Door · Dresses · Electrical · Electronics · Engine · Eyewear · Fan · Fasteners · Fire extinguisher · First aid · Fitness · Fittings · Flowers · Food · Footwear · Fresh produce · Fuel · Furniture · Gaming · Garage · Garden · Gifts · Hair care · Hammer · Hand tools · Health · Heating · House · Jewelry · Key · Kitchenware · Knitwear · Ladder · Lamps · Leaf · Lighting · Lock · Machinery · Measuring · Medical · Music · Office furniture · Office supplies · Outdoor · Packaging · Paint · Percent · Pet supplies · Pharmacy · Phones · Pipe · Plant · Plumbing · Power · Printing · Protection · Retail · Safety · Scissors · Seafood · Seating · Sewing · Shoes · Shower · Socks · Solar panel · Sports · Stack · Stationery · Storefront · Sun · Tag · Textiles · Toilet · Tools · Toys · Traffic cone · Trousers · Ventilation · Wall · Warehouse · Watches · Water · Wellness · Wine and spirits · Work boot Always Shown on the panel when the collection has no image. Choose “No icon” for a plain color panel.
Panel color Automatic (from the collection name) · Color 1 · Color 2 · Color 3 · Color 4 · Color 5 · Color 6 Always
Link Always

Before you start

Each card is a collection. See Collections.