Plugins add capabilities to your shop without changing its theme — the shopping cart, product search, and related-product recommendations are all plugins, not built into the theme itself. Go to Plugins in the admin to see everything installed and control it per shop.

The plugins list#

Each row shows a plugin's name and a short description, its version, an Enabled toggle, and a Settings button (only shown if the plugin has configurable settings).

Plugins you'll typically see:

• Shopping Cart — the cart drawer and cart page, and cart pricing.
• Search — Postgres full-text product search.
• Related products — same-collection product recommendations shown on product pages.

Enabling and disabling a plugin#

Flip the Enabled switch on any plugin's row. This takes effect for your shop only — enabling or disabling a plugin never affects other shops on the platform. Turning a plugin off removes what it contributes: disable the Shopping Cart plugin, for example, and the cart drawer disappears from your storefront (it doesn't delete anyone's existing cart — reactivating the plugin brings it back).

Changes take a few seconds to reach the live storefront — enablement is cached briefly for performance, so don't expect it to flip mid-request.

Plugin settings#

If a plugin has a Settings button, click it to open a dialog of that plugin's configurable fields (text, numbers, toggles, colors — whatever it declares). Edit the values and Save; validation runs before anything is stored, so you'll see an error message instead of a silent failure if a value doesn't fit the field (for example, a number outside its allowed range).

What's next#

• Themes — plugins contribute sections (like the cart drawer) into whichever theme is active; switching themes doesn't change which plugins are enabled.