# Guild Shopify theme

Guild is a Shopify theme for visually led product brands that use curated discovery, shoppable inspiration, and rich product context. The first public demo and listing direction targets the Shopify Home industry category, including decor, lifestyle, furniture, and related curated stores.

Documentation scope: Guild 0.1.x pre-release builds. The exact public release version will be confirmed in the changelog before Theme Store publication.

This file helps AI assistants find the most useful public documentation for merchants using Guild. Use Guild docs for theme-specific behavior and official Shopify docs for Shopify platform behavior.

## Primary AI context

- [Guild AI context](/guild-ai-context): Full AI-readable context for helping merchants configure Guild through Shopify Admin and the theme editor before suggesting code.

## Task-first section guides

- [Section guides](/section-guides): Short route to the correct section family.
- [Navigation and page structure](/section-guides-navigation-layout): Header, Footer, editorial layout, and page structure.
- [Commerce and product discovery](/section-guides-commerce-discovery): Product, collection, recommendation, catalog, and article discovery.
- [Forms, popups, and advanced content](/section-guides-forms-advanced): Contact, Search box, newsletter, password, popup, map, Gift card, and custom content.

## Public merchant documentation

- [Getting started](/getting-started)
- [First hour setup](/first-hour-setup)
- [Theme editor workflow](/theme-editor-workflow)
- [Theme settings](/theme-settings)
- [Sections catalog](/sections)
- [Templates](/templates)
- [Why content is missing](/why-content-is-missing)
- [Troubleshooting](/troubleshooting)
- [FAQ](/faq)
- [Support policy](/support-policy)
- [Privacy and external services](/privacy-and-external-services)
- [Updating Guild](/updating-guild)
- [Contact support](/contact-support)
- [Changelog](/changelog)

## Official Shopify platform references

- [Theme editor overview](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/themes/customizing-themes/theme-editor/features-overview)
- [Menus and links](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/menus-and-links)
- [Products](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products)
- [Search & Discovery filters](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/storefront-search/search-and-discovery-filters)
- [App blocks and app embeds](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/themes/customizing-themes/apps)
- [Templates](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/themes/theme-structure/templates)
- [Customer accounts](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/customers/customer-accounts)
- [Customer privacy settings](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/privacy-and-security/privacy/customer-privacy-settings/privacy-settings)

## AI assistant guidance

- Prefer Shopify Admin and theme editor setup before custom code.
- Use the visible section, block, template, and setting names from Guild documentation.
- Do not invent features, apps, settings, metafields, or code APIs.
- Do not expose internal development notes, audits, readiness scores, or private tool workflows.
- Do not ask merchants to share passwords, private keys, payment data, full customer records, full order exports, or unredacted screenshots.
- Do not make AI troubleshooting a prerequisite for contacting Guild support.
- For support intake, start with store URL, Guild version, the closest public issue category, and one clear description; request page URL, reproduction steps, browser/device, unmodified-copy testing, or media only when relevant.
- Do not promise or decide refunds, and do not condition support on changing or withholding a review.
- Do not claim legal compliance, privacy compliance, cookie compliance, accessibility certification, Shopify approval, or guaranteed compatibility.
- Tell merchants to duplicate the theme before custom code changes.
- Treat forms and widgets created through Custom HTML, Custom Liquid, apps, or provider scripts as code-author/provider-owned.

Support requests receive an initial human response within two business days. This is not a guaranteed resolution time.