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Install the theme

Last updated on Sep 09, 2026

Install the theme

Crust is a Shopify theme you add to your store and customize in the theme editor. It arrives as a finished design: colors, fonts, homepage layout, and sample content are already arranged, so you start from a complete look rather than a blank page.

Add the theme

  1. From your admin, go to Online Store > Themes > Add themes > Visit Theme Store, and find Crust.
  2. On the listing, click Try theme. This adds Crust to your store under Online Store > Themes, in the theme library, as an unpublished copy.
  3. To keep it, find it in the theme library and click Buy.

Adding a theme does not change your store. Your products, collections, menus, pages, and blog posts live in your admin and stay as they are. The theme only controls how they are shown.

Customize and publish

  1. In Online Store > Themes, find the theme copy in your library and click Customize to open the theme editor.
  2. Work through each page and swap the placeholder content for your own. For how pages are built, see Sections, blocks, and groups.
  3. Set the global look under Theme settings at the bottom of the editor sidebar: Colors for the color schemes, Typography for the fonts, Logo and Favicon for your brand marks.
  4. When it is ready, return to Online Store > Themes and Publish the copy to make it live for shoppers.

Working on an unpublished copy means you can build the whole store and preview it without changing what live shoppers see.

Replace the demo content

The photos in the Theme Store preview are licensed for that preview and are not included with the theme, so you start with placeholder images. Replace them with your own:

  • Open each section or block in the editor and use its image picker to add your photography.
  • Point the product and collection sections at your real products and collections from their pickers.
  • Rewrite the placeholder headings and text for your store.

Use your own product and brand photography throughout. See Common section settings for how a section's color scheme, spacing, and layout apply once your content is in.

Tips

  • The theme sets your color schemes for you. Change your brand colors once under Colors in Theme settings and the change carries across every section that uses that scheme.
  • Customizations do not carry between themes. If you install a new version later, you set it up fresh, so finish one before you move on.
  • Nothing in the starting design is fixed. Every section, color, font, and piece of copy stays editable, so treat it as a foundation rather than a template you have to keep.