Header

Learn to edit the website header of your Shopify store

The header is a content block at the upper part of your website that appears on every page. It usually contains the logo of a store, the main navigation menu, and other elements such as a search bar, shopping cart icon, etc.

The header plays a vital role in branding your site, helping visitors navigate, and displaying your most important pages.

You can freely customize your header to suit your business needs by adding your logo image, choosing the main menu, and other addons using Minimog theme.

Header section

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Logo settings

Add a logo in the header to grab visitors' attention and set the tone for your brand. The recommended image size and format is 200x80px .png with a transparent background.

Steps

1. In the theme editor (Customize), click Header

2. Select image under Logo

3. Save

To add SVG logos, kindly upload them in Shopify Settings > Files and get the URLs.

Resize the logo image by increasing or decreasing the width on desktop/mobile or when it is sticky.

Design settings

Change the position of the logo and menus based on your preferences.

1. Logo and menu in 1 line

• Logo in center 1

• Logo in center (with 2nd menu)

• Logo left

2. Logo and menu in 2 lines

• Logo center

Logo left

• Logo left

Minimog lets you enable a sticky header to keep the navigation visible on the scroll. It also enables the transparent effect on top of both desktop and mobile.

1. Transparent header with sticky scrolling

2. No transparent header with sticky scrolling

3. Default scrolling

Menu settings

This section lets you display your desired menus along with the logo. You can choose your desktop menu and mobile menu separately.

To add, remove, or edit menus in your Shopify store, see Editing menus.

Add-ons

Add-ons provide extra settings to the header such as search, currency selector, language selector, etc. by enabling the suitable checkboxes.

For search, you can either show the full search box or only the search icon.

Regarding the currency selector and language selector, you must configure them in Shopify admin for them to show on the front end.

How to add more languages to your Shopify store?

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Languages.

2. In the Store languages settings, select Add language.

3. Choose a language from the drop-down menu, and hit Next.

4. Select an active market to add your language to.

5. In the Unpublished languages, click Publish beside the language that you want to make available to customers in your store.

6. Click Save.

If you want to add translations to your store content, then you need to import translations or use an app.

How to add more currencies to your Shopify store?

Using multi-currencies to increase sales and expand your business into new markets.

To display a currency selector in your store, check out the following steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings.

2. Navigate to Markets and click Add market.

1. Click Add countries/ regions and select the countries/regions you want.

1. Hit Save when you're finished.

To sell in multiple currencies, you need to have Shopify Payments enabled in your online store.