If you're not familiar with what a Product Detail Page (PDP) is, please read our Overview article before continuing.
Managing your PDPs can be a bit challenging at first, but this article will help you quickly understand and master it.
First, go to your dashboard and click on "Page Manager".
Let’s start with what we believe to be the foundation for everything in this section.
Pages Layout
As explained in the article introducing the PDP, you can have multiple PDPs, each one applied to multiple products or multiple collections. There are three different types of layout pages:
Collections: After you create a PDP, you can apply it to a collection or multiple collections.
This is useful, for example, if you have a sustainable collection and you want to create a specific layout for the products in this collection with a more green layout promoting sustainability.
Products: After you create a PDP, you can apply it to a product or multiple products.
This is useful, for example, if you have a big product coming out and you want to give it more highlight by creating a different layout for this specific product.
Default Layout: Acts as a fallback PDP layout for your app.
When you first access your dashboard, you'll see the PDP that has already been created. As you create additional PDP layouts, you can assign them to specific collections or products.
For example, if you create two custom PDPs and assign each one to a different collection, any products that aren't assigned to one of those layouts still need a Product Detail Page. In these cases, the Default Layout is applied automatically.
This ensures that every product in your app always has a layout, even if no custom PDP has been assigned.
The Default PDP can't be deleted because, as the name suggests, it is the pilar of your product detailed pages.
Every new Product created on Shopify will be assigned to this layout, if there is no match with other layout.
Other Actions
You also have additional actions to help manage your PDPs, such as:
"Status" - You can set a PDP to active or inactive and it will immediately stop being used.
"Rename" - Give your PDPs a name for better organization in the long term.
"Clone" - Instead of starting from scratch, you can take advantage of previously built layouts.
"Deactivate" - Remove outdated PDPs without deleting them.
If you want to know what options you have available while creating your PDP, please check our guide PDP Options.