Cortex Shopify Theme

Cortex brings a dark amber editorial look to a complete Shopify Online Store 2.0 storefront. Its 37-card perspective hero leads into curated product edits, collection tiles, a brand story, editorial imagery and a three-article journal. Poppins and Playfair Display typography pair with warm ivory panels, rounded photography and restrained scroll and hover motion. Product cards zoom and tilt 30° while keeping quick shop and saved favorites accessible.

The native theme includes product variants, quick shop, a Cart Ajax bag drawer, a standard cart page, Shopify checkout handoff, search, collection sorting, customer account links, browser-local wishlists, native contact/newsletter forms and blog/article layouts. Brand, color, navigation and content settings are supplied through section schemas; some decorative hero artwork is edited in source.

The download contains an intact uploadable theme ZIP plus draft CSV seed data for 12 fictional products with 49 size/color variants. A readable content manifest supplies nine collection memberships, eight pages and three journal articles. The manifest is not an automatic Shopify importer: create those store records and connect them using the included setup guide. Uploading the theme alone does not seed your store.

Requires your own Shopify store. Configure real inventory, shipping, taxes, policies, payments, accounts and email workflows separately. Checkout and customer accounts use Shopify-hosted screens. Wishlist is saved in the current browser. Reviews can display standard rating metafields; collecting reviews requires an app. No Shopify Theme Store certification is claimed. Sample branded photography is illustrative and should be replaced for your real catalog.

The public preview is the original interactive browser-local design demo. Its cart, profiles and orders are simulated and it takes no payment or sends email. The purchased source is the native Shopify theme and content kit; the listing does not promise a working payment account or an automatic store-data migration.

Launch a cohesive fashion storefront without rebuilding the visual system or core Shopify shopping UI. Cortex pairs an expressive motion-led design with editable theme source and organized sample content so you can focus on your catalog and merchant setup.

CORTEX SHOPIFY THEME — SETUP GUIDE — 1.0.0

1. EXTRACT

Extract Cortex-Shopify-Source-v1.0.0.zip. Keep Cortex-1.0.0.zip intact: it is the directly uploadable Shopify theme. The outer package also contains Cortex-Sample-Products.csv, Cortex-Store-Content.json, Cortex-Shopify-Setup.txt and Cortex-Shopify-Agent-Prompt.txt.

2. REQUIREMENTS AND INSTALL

Use your own Shopify store and staff access to themes and content. Upload Cortex-1.0.0.zip under Online Store > Themes > Import theme. Work in an unpublished draft. No npm installation, build process or third-party app is required for core theme shopping. The theme source is editable Liquid, JSON, CSS and vanilla JavaScript. Shopify supplies the platform backend.

3. IMPORT PRODUCTS

Import Cortex-Sample-Products.csv through Products > Import with overwrite disabled. It contains 12 fictional products and 49 size/color variants as DRAFT and unpublished. Photos import from the existing public Cortex image library. Check prices, compare-at prices, variant SKUs, sizes, color options and media. Assign actual inventory at your selected fulfillment location; Shopify may require separate location-specific inventory adjustments. Illustrative quantities are not real stock. Publish products to the Online Store only when appropriate.

4. CREATE COLLECTIONS

Cortex-Store-Content.json is a readable content manifest, not a Shopify-native JSON importer. Create its 9 collections with the exact handles and listed products: cortex-all, cortex-essentials, cortex-weekend, cortex-occasion, cortex-new, cortex-featured, cortex-clothing, cortex-footwear and cortex-accessories. Set the supplied collection images. The last three support the category tabs. Theme sections preserve the original order for the supplied Cortex products while honoring explicit customer sorting.

5. CREATE PAGES AND JOURNAL

Create the manifest's eight pages using their supplied HTML and exact handles: cortex-story, cortex-contact, cortex-faq, cortex-size-guide, cortex-delivery-returns, cortex-privacy, cortex-terms and cortex-collections. Use the default page template; the theme routes those Cortex handles to the correct layouts. Contact uses a native Shopify contact form. The Collections page uses the actual Cortex collections. Create blog cortex-journal and its articles less-but-better, weekend-perspective and care-guide with the supplied content, excerpts, images and tags. Replace illustrative policy text with policies appropriate to your business.

6. CONNECT THE THEME

In the theme editor choose Cortex collections, products, blog, articles and page links where needed. Defaults use the manifest's handles. Featured products are Runner, Watch, Bag and Tee. New arrivals are Relaxed Shirt, Sunday Layers, Everyday Trench and City Blazer. Header and footer include editable link settings and can optionally use native Shopify menus. Brand settings control name, logo, tagline and help link. Color settings control the primary palette. Motion settings toggle the 30-degree card tilt. Sections can be reordered; the decorative 37-card hero artwork is supplied source rather than a live product feed.

7. COMMERCE CONFIGURATION

Shopify product forms use actual variants. Quick shop and bag drawer use Shopify's Cart Ajax API. Cart, checkout, accounts, search, blog, newsletter and contact use Shopify services. Configure payments, shipping, taxes, markets, accounts and store policies separately. Reviews use standard rating metafields; collecting reviews requires a suitable app. Wishlist saves handles only in the current browser. Email campaigns need your chosen email workflow. No fake orders or reviews are included. Checkout and account layout/branding are platform-controlled and are not the static demo's simulated screens.

8. PREVIEW AND LAUNCH

Check homepage, all collection categories, product images, all sizes, sold-out handling, quick shop, cart quantity/removal, search, mobile navigation, pages and journal. Test checkout in your own Shopify test setup without placing a real paid order. Verify contact/newsletter handling and actual shipping/tax/payment rules. Preview before publishing. Never replace unrelated assets, products, themes or menus.

SOURCE MAP AND LICENSES

Inside the theme ZIP: layout/theme.liquid is the shared shell; templates/*.json bind sections; sections/ contains editable storefront components; snippets/ contains cards, icons, page layouts and collection ordering; config/ contains brand/color settings; assets/ contains 15 photographs, 26 WOFF2 font files, CSS, JavaScript and license notices. Poppins and Playfair Display use included OFL notices. Photographs remain subject to the included Unsplash license/source notice and are illustrative. Replace branded sample photography with suitable imagery for your business. No Shopify Theme Store certification is claimed.

PUBLIC DEMO

https://mvpvault-design-asset.pages.dev/cortex-store/v1/

This is the browser-local design demo: cart, profiles and orders are simulated and no payment or email is sent. It demonstrates the design and interactions. The purchased deliverable is the native Shopify theme and import/content package described above. The public demo source is not included in this Shopify package.

1.0.0 — Complete native Shopify theme with Cortex catalog/content kit. Includes connected collection navigation and 30° card tilt. Quick-shop button sizing corrected during visual QA.