The homepage

Where to edit it

Go to Appearance → Editor → Templates → Front Page. Every section is its own pattern, under Patterns → Foliowick: Homepage sections, so you can reorder, remove or reuse them.

Each section hides itself when your shop has nothing to show in it, so a new store never shows empty shelves.

The sections

From top to bottom:

Section	Where its books come from
Hero	An invitation beside your featured books
Browse by Genre	Your genres, with their images
On Our Bookshelf	Your most loved books, with author, rating, price and the purchase button
The Editor’s Pick	The newest book tagged editors-pick, or the newest featured book
New & Noteworthy	Your newest books in a sideways-scrolling row
Literary statement	One sentence in large italic type. Click it to write your own
Curated reading lists	Your four biggest reading lists
Meet the Author	The author with the most books among those with a biography
The reading journal	Your three latest journal articles
Newsletter	Only when a newsletter provider is set up (see below)

To show different books in a section, select its Product Collection (or Single Product) block and change the query.

Starter homepages

The Children’s bookshop, Rare & secondhand, Independent press and Ebooks & audiobooks demo stores apply their own homepage, built from the same kind of sections: browse by age, recent acquisitions, the list by series, forthcoming books, our authors, read or listen and so on. You’ll find them in Patterns → Foliowick: Homepage sections too.

Newsletter

Foliowick shows a sign-up form only when a newsletter provider is set up:

• Jetpack Subscriptions works out of the box: activate Jetpack and its Subscriptions feature.
• Any other provider: a developer can return the provider’s form block from the foliowick_newsletter_form filter (see Hooks and filters).

Without a provider, the homepage leaves the newsletter section out, and the newsletter footer invites readers to the journal instead. Foliowick never stores subscriber data.