How do you create a custom page template in Shopify and assign it to a page?

Create the page template in the theme editor

Edits to a template change every page that uses it, so give one page its own template. The new one copies the sections of the template it's based on.

1. In Online Store › Themes, click Edit theme on your live theme.
2. Open the Home page menu, select Pages, and click Create template.
3. Enter a unique Name, choose a Based on template, and click Create template.
4. Add, remove or hide sections, then click Save.

In Shopify adminOpen in your store

1. Online Store
2. Themes
3. Edit theme

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In Shopify adminOpen in your store

1. Online Store
2. Themes
3. Edit theme

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Assign the template to a page

1. In Online Store › Pages, open the page.
2. Pick your template in the Theme template list.
3. Click Save.

In Shopify adminOpen in your store

1. Online Store
2. Pages

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In Shopify adminOpen in your store

1. Online Store
2. Pages

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The Help Center's steps assign one page at a time: the Bulk editor for blog posts and pages is no longer available, and to edit pages Shopify suggests considering a third-party app. Products keep the Bulk editor, as the product template answer shows.

Helpful Online's November 2023 video shows creating and assigning a template; today's editor may differ.

Why the template is missing or can't be created

Missing from the Theme template list? The list shows templates only from your current live theme, so one built in a draft theme won't appear; it must be in your live theme.

Three limits apply to creating one:

• The Starter plan doesn't support creating any new templates.
• Vintage themes can't create templates in the theme editor; check which kind you run.
• The Help Center allows only 1,000 templates in total across products, collections, pages, blogs and blog posts; shopify.dev says a theme can contain up to 1,000 JSON templates.

Switching to a different theme leaves your pages unchanged, but templates belong to each theme, so recreate your page template in the new one; a theme update copies over templates you created in the theme editor. No Shopify page we read (the templates, adding-themes, updating-themes and publishing-themes help pages and shopify.dev's JSON templates reference, November 2026) says which template a page shows when a different theme lacks it.