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Why doesn't my published page appear on my store?

The usual cause is that the page was published to a theme that is not your live theme. Check the theme first, then the app embed.

Written by Eddie Lavandera

A page that published successfully but is not on your storefront is almost always on a theme that is not live, or on a live theme whose Atlas app embed is off. The same five checks apply whether it is a product page, a page variation or a landing page, because the causes are the same. Work through them in order.

In this article:


Step 1: Check which theme the page is on

  1. In your Shopify admin, go to Online Store, then Themes, and note which theme is published. That is your live theme.

  2. In Atlas, recall which theme you selected when you published. For a landing page this is the Theme to import into field.

If they are different, you have found it. You have two options:

  • Publish the page again to your live theme. Use Publish again on the page row, or on its row in the Landing pages tab, and select the correct theme.

  • Publish that theme in Shopify, if the theme you built into is the one you actually want live. This changes your whole storefront, not only that page.

Atlas warns about this at publish time: This theme isn't live — the page won't show on your store until this theme is published. The warning is easy to miss on a busy screen.


Step 2: Check the app embed on your live theme

If the page is on the right theme, check that the theme can render it.

Open your Atlas dashboard and look at the Theme extensions card. Atlas Page Builder must show Active. The card reports on your published theme, and names it in the subtitle so you can confirm.

If it shows Inactive, select Activate, then press Save in the theme editor that opens. See How to enable the Atlas Page Builder app embed.

⚠️ Without this embed, Atlas pages do not render correctly even though they are in the theme. If the page was working and has recently stopped, particularly after you changed or updated your theme, this is the most likely cause.


Step 3: Check you are looking at the right URL

Where the page lives depends on what kind of page it is.

A product page replaces the product page for the product you built from. Open that exact product on your storefront rather than a similar one, especially if you have several variants of the same item in your catalog.

A page variation lives at its own URL rather than replacing the original. Use View on the variation's row to open it, then copy the address from your browser. Visiting the original product URL correctly shows the original page, which is expected.

A landing page has its own URL. It does not replace your product page, and it does not appear in your store's navigation unless you add it. Find the correct URL from the Landing pages tab of your dashboard rather than guessing at it.

ℹ️ Nothing links to a landing page automatically. That is by design: landing pages are ad destinations rather than pages customers browse to. If you want one reachable from your store, add it to your navigation in Shopify yourself.


Step 4: Clear caches

If everything above checks out, you may be seeing a cached copy.

  1. Open the page in a private or incognito window.

  2. Try a different browser, or your phone on mobile data rather than your own wifi.

  3. If you use a caching or performance app on your store, clear its cache.

Shopify serves storefront pages through a CDN, so a change can take a few minutes to appear everywhere even after a successful publish.


Step 5: Publish again

If the page is on the live theme, the embed is active, and caching is ruled out, use Publish again on the page row, or on its row in the Landing pages tab.

Republishing rewrites the page into the theme and moves it onto the current version of the Atlas page assets. It does not count a second time towards your published pages allowance.


If the page loads but looks wrong

That is a different problem. If the page appears but the layout is broken, images or sections are missing, or it does not match what you saw in the editor, that is a rendering problem rather than a publishing one, and the usual cause is the app embed from step 2.


Still not showing

Start a chat from the bubble in the bottom right of Atlas, or email support@helloatlas.io. Either way, include:

  • your store URL

  • the product URL or landing page URL where you expect to see the page

  • the name of your live theme, and the theme you published into

  • a screenshot of the Theme extensions card on your dashboard

That last item answers half the questions support would otherwise have to ask.


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