Arranging your home page

Every theme's home page is a list of sections stacked down the page. You decide the order, and you decide which ones show. Nothing is thrown away: a section you hide keeps everything in it and comes back the moment you show it again.

• Drag a section by its handle to move it, or use the up and down buttons beside it. Both do the same thing, so use whichever suits you.
• You can also move a section with the keyboard. Move focus to its handle, press Space to pick it up, use the up and down arrow keys to move it, then press Space again to drop it or Escape to put it back. As it moves, the page announces the section by its name and its new position, for example Featured rail 3 moved to position 4 of 13, so a screen reader says where it is.
• The eye hides a section and shows it again. At least one section always stays showing, so the last one's eye is switched off.
• The preview beside the list is your shop, not a picture of it. What you read there is what a customer reads once you publish.
• Your changes save as you make them and sit as a draft. Your shop keeps serving the published order until you press Publish, so a half-finished page never reaches a customer.
• Discard changes puts your draft back to what is published. Reset to theme hands the whole page back to the theme's own order.
• A section that needs something you have not written yet says so in the list. A journal with no posts reads "Shows once you publish a post", and it stays off your shop until there is a post to show.
• If your theme gains a section later it arrives in the theme's own position, marked New. If your theme loses one, the list tells you how many are gone.
• Hiding every section of a page that shows your products shows Kyloth's plain grid instead. A page with nothing to sell on it still sells something.
• Some sections let you write your own words, a heading, a small line above it, a paragraph. Open Words on a section to see what it offers. What is already there is the theme's own writing, and what you write replaces it on your shop: leave a box empty and the theme's words keep showing, and clearing a box you filled hands it back.
• A few sections are built around their writing rather than around your products. Those stay off your shop while every box on them is still the theme's own words, and they show once you have written the words they are built around.
• Sections that show your products, your posts or your delivered-orders count have no words to write here. What they show comes from the rest of your dashboard, which is the only place it can stay correct.
• Every time you publish, the arrangement it replaced is kept. Published versions lists them with the date and how many sections each had, and Restore puts one back as your draft. Your shop keeps serving what is published until you press Publish again.
• The last twenty versions of each page are kept. If a section in an old version is not in your theme any more, restoring it leaves that section out and says how many are gone. If a section stayed but moved among sections of its own kind, any words you had written on it are cleared rather than handed to the wrong one, and it tells you how many.
• Add custom section creates a set of cards on your home page. Choose a grid, an editorial layout with a larger lead card, or a horizontal carousel. Edit the heading and cards, upload your own images, and add store paths such as /shop. You can reorder or remove cards; the same draft and Publish controls apply.

The words above the list tell you where you stand. Using the theme's layout means you have not changed anything yet. Draft means you have arranged a page nobody has seen. Unpublished changes means your shop is showing one order and you are looking at another. Published means the two match.

Shoppers can switch the storefront between light and dark using the sun or moon in the header. Their choice stays on their device for this store. It does not change your saved brand colours or their Kyloth dashboard appearance. Test both views when choosing colours and photography.

Add your Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn profile links in Settings, Shop profile. Use your full company, school or profile link for LinkedIn. Each link must belong to the named platform. Clear a field to remove it. Configured links appear in your storefront footer across themes. These are links to your profiles, not a live social feed or an automatic publishing service.

For embedded customer support, enable Website chat in the same business’s Kyloth Desk support inbox. When Desk access and website chat are enabled, your published storefront shows Chat with us. Customers sign in through Desk, connect their account and return to the storefront to message your team. Agents claim and answer the conversation in Desk. Offline messages are accepted; the availability label is your setting, not automatic agent presence. Replies are checked every ten seconds while the panel is open. Attachments and anonymous chat are not available in this panel.