How to convert from a Landing page to a Homepage?

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Convert a landing page to a homepage in EComposer

It happens more often than you’d think: you build a beautiful page, then realize you created it as a Landing page when it was meant to be your store’s Homepage. You don’t need to rebuild it from scratch. Simply save the page to your library, create a new homepage, and insert the saved design into it.

1. Save your page to the library

First, open the page you want to convert in the EComposer editor. You’ll store a copy of its whole layout as a template so you can reuse it on the new homepage.

Step 1: In the top-right corner of the editor, click the three-dot icon next to the Publish button, then choose Save to library.

Open the three-dot menu and click Save to library

Step 2: The library opens on the My templates tab. Give the template a name you’ll recognize later, then click Save. You’ll see a short message confirming the template has been created.

2. Create a new homepage

Next, close the editor to return to the EComposer dashboard and create a new page, this time with the correct page type.

Step 1: In the Create Page or Landing card, click Create.

Click Create in the Create Page or Landing card

Step 2: Under Core Store Pages, pick One-product Homepage or Multi-product Homepage, then click Create. The editor opens for your new homepage, with the template library already on screen.

Select Multi-product Homepage and click Create

3. Insert your saved template

Now bring your saved design into the new homepage.

Step 1: In the library, switch to the My templates tab, find the template you saved earlier, and click Insert now.

Open My templates and click Insert now on your saved template

Step 2: A small window asks how you’d like to insert the template. Keep the default options, then click Insert. Your old page design now appears on the new homepage.

Keep the default options and click Insert

4. Publish it as your homepage

Finally, click Publish in the top-right corner. In the window that appears, give your homepage a name, keep Publish turned on, and switch on Overwrite Shopify default homepage so it replaces your theme’s current homepage. Then click Save & publish.

Turn on Overwrite Shopify default homepage and click Save & publish

Once the new homepage is live, you can delete the old landing page so it doesn’t cause confusion later. The same steps also work if you need to move a design between any other page types, for example from a landing page to a product page.