The Atlas editor is where you review and change a generated page before it goes live. It opens automatically when a build finishes, and you can return to it later with the Edit action on any page row in your dashboard. Everything here is editable: copy, colours, which sections appear, and the order of blocks inside them.
In this article:
The top bar
Running along the top of the editor:
Control | What it does |
| Leaves the editor |
| Shows which page you are working on |
The page selector | Switches between the pages in this build |
| Settings for the page as a whole |
| Opens and closes that panel |
| Opens and closes the palette panel |
| Switches the preview device |
| Saves without publishing |
| Puts the pages on your store. A build holding one page says |
Non-subscribers see Upgrade to publish in place of the publish button.
On a narrow screen the labels shorten to Page, Pages, Home, Product, Import and Publish. They do the same things.
Choosing which page you are editing
A full store build produces several pages. Use the page selector, labelled Select a page, to move between them. You will see entries such as Home page and Product page, and the one currently live on your theme is marked with (Live).
That live marker matters. It tells you which version your customers are seeing right now, as opposed to which version you are editing.
The sections list
The left panel lists the Sections that make up your page, in the order they appear. Select one to open its settings.
Each section can be hidden with Hide section and brought back with Show section. A hidden section shows the label Hidden and does not appear on the published page.
💡 Hiding is better than deleting when you are unsure. A hidden section keeps its content, so you can bring it back later without regenerating anything.
If you have changed a section and want to undo your edits, Reset changes restores it.
Two states you may see instead of a list:
Loading template sections...while the editor loadsNo editable sections are available for this template.if the template exposes nothing to edit
Section settings
Selecting a section opens its fields. What you see depends on the section, but these are the common ones:
Field | What it controls |
| The main copy in the section |
| Product-specific copy |
| Individual benefit lines |
| Highlighted claims |
| Button labels |
| Social proof copy |
| Individual testimonials |
| Statistics blocks |
| Comparison sections |
| Badge text |
If a section has nothing editable you will see No editable settings found for this section.
Text formatting. Longer fields support Bold, Italic, Bulleted list and Numbered list.
Fonts. Where a font can be set, the options are Default, Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Times New Roman, Courier New, Verdana and Trebuchet MS.
Images. You can swap any image straight from the preview, covered in Changing an image below. The settings panel also keeps a URL field, Enter image URL, and the format for a file already in your Shopify files is shopify://shop_images/image.png.
⚠️ Review the testimonials and statistics before publishing. Atlas generates plausible-sounding social proof, and publishing invented reviews or statistics as though they were real is your legal responsibility, not Atlas's. Replace them with your own or hide the section.
Changing an image
Move your pointer over any image in the preview and a small pencil button appears in its top-right corner, labelled Change image. Moving focus to it with the keyboard reveals it too. Icons and avatars do not get one, because the button would cover them.
Selecting it opens Change image, which lists the images already in your Shopify files:
Control | What it does |
| Filters the list by filename |
| Puts that image in the page. The one already there shows |
| Adds a new image to your Shopify files and uses it |
| Fetches the next batch of files |
| Leave the image as it was |
You can also drag an image onto the dialog, which shows Drop an image to upload it.
ℹ️ Uploads go into your Shopify files, the same library the rest of your store uses. An image you add here is available everywhere in Shopify afterwards.
If your library is empty you will see No images in your Shopify files yet. Upload one to get started. and a search with no results shows No files match your search.
Three messages mean something went wrong:
Message | What to do |
| Close the dialog and open it again |
| Retry the upload |
| Convert the file to one of those formats first |
Blocks
Some sections are built from repeatable Blocks, such as a list of features or a set of cards.
Control | What it does |
| Adds another block to the section |
| Reorders blocks |
| Deletes a block |
A section with no blocks shows No blocks added, and a block with nothing to configure shows No settings available for this block.
Theme colours
The Theme colors panel applies a palette across the whole page: "Select a cohesive color palette for your store. This will be applied globally."
Available palettes include Default, Original, Beauty, Playful, Lifestyle, Secure, Health, Calming, Pet, Kids, Home, Street, Luxury, Luxurious, Food, Forest, Ocean, Sand and Crimson.
Original returns the page to the colours it was generated with.
ℹ️ The palette you set here applies to this page only. There is no project-wide default palette, so set the colours on each page as you build it.
Previewing on desktop and mobile
Switch between Desktop preview and Mobile preview in the top bar.
Check the mobile view before publishing. Most storefront traffic is mobile, and long headlines and benefit lists behave differently on a narrow screen than they do on a desktop.
Saving as a draft
Save as draft stores your work without putting anything on your store. Atlas confirms with Saved as draft. Find it in your pages. If it fails you will see Couldn't save your draft. Please try again.
A save can also come back with Page saved, but the product title couldn't be updated in Shopify. Your page is saved in that case. Only the product's title in Shopify kept its old value, so change it in Shopify if it matters to you.
A draft does not appear on your storefront and does not count towards your published pages allowance.
Publishing
Publish pages opens the publish panel, where you choose a theme and confirm. This is covered in full in How to publish a page to your theme, including exactly what publishing replaces.
If you see Enable Atlas in your theme to publish, the required app embed is switched off for that theme. Select Activate app embed, press Save in the theme editor that opens, and Atlas re-checks automatically.
Leaving without saving
Closing the editor with unsaved changes asks Leave without saving? and warns You have unsaved changes. They'll be lost. Choose Keep editing to stay, or Leave to discard.
There is no autosave and no version history. If you have made edits worth keeping, save the draft before you navigate away.