Checkmate Theme
Set up, design and run your store with the Checkmate theme.
More in this collection
- Getting startedPick a style, add the theme and set up your store in order.4 articles
- DesignColors, light and dark mode, section backgrounds, page chapters and image sizes.5 articles
- NavigationMenus, the mega menu, the side menu, search and the language and country selectors.5 articles
- Product pagesWhat product pages and product cards show, and how each product gets its own content.17 articles
- Collections and cartFilters on collection and search pages, and what customers see in the cart.7 articles
- Pages and marketingAbout, contact and FAQ pages, page layouts, the password page, popups, email signups and the wishlist.9 articles
- Apps and codeAdd app blocks and your own code, and edit the theme's code safely.2 articles
- Theme settingsEvery group in Theme settings, setting by setting.14 articles
- SectionsEvery section you can add, with its settings.49 articles
- BlocksEvery block you can add inside a section, with its settings.17 articles
- TroubleshootingFind the cause when something on your store looks or works wrong.14 articles
Welcome to the Checkmate docs. Checkmate is a Shopify theme by Checkout Beast. It comes in three styles, Checkmate, Lair and Fang, and every style has the same sections, blocks and settings, so these docs apply to your store whichever style you started from.
Where to start
Set up your store
From a new theme to a published store, in order.
Sections and blocks
How the editor builds each page.
Change your theme colors
The palette, the accent and dark mode.
Update your theme
Move to a new version and keep your settings.
Theme styles
How Checkmate, Lair and Fang differ.
Contact support
When these docs don't answer your question.
Three styles
You pick a style when you add the theme. The style sets the fonts, the colors and the demo layout of every page, and you can change each of them in the theme editor afterwards. The coffee roaster at the top of this page is the Checkmate style. Lair and Fang look like this:
Theme styles compares the three setting by setting.