Getting Started
Update Minimog theme
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The Section groups feature is available from Minimog version 3.4.0 and above.
Due to the discontinuation of Meta’s Instagram Basic Display API, the Instagram section is removed from version 5.6.0.

Update Minimog theme automatically
We highly suggest you use FoxHome - the smart theme manager exclusively built for Minimog theme.
What is FoxHome?
How to sign up in FoxHome
- In your FoxHome dashboard, click Manage themes.
- In the Out of dated themes list, locate the Minimog theme you want to update and click Update.
- Click Update now.

What files are kept and what not when updating the theme automatically
- All sections (including sections that merchants added)
- config/settings_data.json
- snippets/custom-code-head.liquid
- snippets/custom-code-body.liquid
- assets/custom.css.liquid -templates/*.son (all json data with OS 2.0)
- Assets that you've added (not including JS and CSS)
- Alternate template and liquid template
- All locale files (including new local and editing ones)
- theme.liquid snippets
- Any files created by a 3rd-party app or customized codes from merchants/dev teams.
Update Minimog theme manually
Create a backup of your current theme
- In your Shopify admin > Online store, click Actions.
- Select Duplicate.
- Rename the copied file.

Get the latest Minimog version
To know how to find and download the theme package, see here.
Upload the new version to your Shopify store
- From your Shopify dashboard, go to Online Store.
- In the Theme library, select Add theme > Upload zip file.
- In the Upload theme modal, click Add file and select the file you want to upload.
- Click Upload file.

Move the theme settings
- Locate your old theme > select Actions > Edit code.
- Open the file Config/settings_data.json & copy the entire code on this file.
- Paste the copied content into the same file of the updated theme version.


Move the translation file
- Locate your old theme > select Actions > Edit code.
- Find the Locales folder, select the language you want to use, and copy the translation file.
- In your new version, go to Actions > Edit code and Add a new locale with the language you've copied.
- Paste the content to your new file.

Move your pages
- Locate your old theme > select Actions > Edit code.
- In the Templates folder, copy the .json files with a green dot and move them to the new updated theme.

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