So now that you've got your store fantastically well organised using collections, the next thing I
want to show you is the featured collection.
But before I get into that, the first thing I want to do is to talk about the home page collection.
Because as I'm sure you remember in the last lecture, I was saying, please don't worry about it because
I will talk about it later.
Well, that moment is now.
So there's definitely nothing mysterious about the home page collection, because you can simply think
of it as the bucket.
In other words, whenever you add a product to your store, it's going to automatically go into your
home page collection.
And you can see that here, because without me doing anything, all of my six products are already within
my home page collection.
So with that in mind, the next thing I want to do is to go over to my store and scroll down a bit where
we see this section, the featured products, and you can think of the featured products as being exactly
the same as a featured collection.
Now this might get a little bit confusing, so please bear with me, but I promise you it will become
clear by the end of the lecture.
So now the question is how come we've got a featured collection on our home page when seemingly we haven't
done anything at all to set this up?
Well, the reason for that is because the feature collection is linked to your home page collection.
And to make that clear, let me just go back to admin, come down to the online store and click on customize
to open up the theme editor.
And then come over here where you see Featured collection.
Click on Feature Collection and scroll down a bit until you see this part collection.
And you can see here home page, meaning that the home page collection.
In other words, all of our six products.
The bucket, if you like, is linked by default to our feature collection, and that's why it's showing
on the home page.
Now, it's possible at this point that you're still thinking, well, I'm a bit confused, so let me
help you out because we can change the collection that is linked to this feature collection simply by
clicking on this change button here.
Selecting Change Collection where you see a list of the collections which of course you're now familiar
with.
And home page is selected by default.
But now let's imagine that I actually don't want to show all of my products, and instead I would prefer
to show just my features collection.
Well, to do that, all I would need to do is to come up here and click on this little tick.
And as you can now see on the right hand side, my feeders collection is showing.
If I wanted to change that to leashes, of course I select leashes or maybe backpacks or even towels.
And so hopefully you can now see that I can very easily control which collection I want to show as my
feature collection.
So let's actually make the change.
And I'm going to put it on to leashes and then come down here and click on select.
And then we'll go ahead and click on save.
Now let's head back to the site and refresh.
And my leashes collection now shows as I would expect.
Now I promised you that by the end of the lecture you wouldn't be confused anymore.
But if you still are, I would really encourage you to go through this process on your store.
And hopefully at that point it will really bring it to life.
And so just to finish this lecture, what I would like to do is to actually change this title featured
products, because quite frankly, I find it a little bit dull.
I would much prefer to have a title that's more exciting, more of a call to action, something more
like check out our latest products.
So let's actually make that change.
So I'll go back to the theme editor.
And as you can see, I'm still on the feature collection.
And if I scroll up a bit here, here is the heading Featured Products.
So I will remove it and replace it with check out our latest products and then clicking on save.
I'll go back to the site once again and refresh.
And everything is as I would expect, giving me a fantastic way to highlight any collection I wish on
my home page by simply setting it as my featured collection.