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# Install the theme

## Add Roomfolk to your store

1. In your Shopify admin, go to **Online Store → Themes**.
2. Under **Theme library**, choose **Add theme → Shopify Theme Store**, and add Roomfolk.
3. Roomfolk appears in your theme library, unpublished.

Adding a theme does not change what your customers see. Your current theme stays live until you publish Roomfolk yourself.

## Before you publish

Roomfolk arrives with placeholder images and no collections attached — that is deliberate. A theme cannot bring another store's photographs or product groupings with it, so it ships with the settings empty and draws placeholders until you fill them in.

That means a freshly installed Roomfolk will look unfinished, and it is supposed to. Work through [Set up your store](/roomfolk/getting-started/set-up-your-store.md) before publishing.

## Preview it first

From **Online Store → Themes**, find Roomfolk in your theme library and choose **Actions → Preview**. You will see your own products and collections in it without any customer seeing the change.

## Publish

When you are happy with it, choose **Actions → Publish**. Roomfolk becomes your live theme immediately.

## Duplicate before you edit code

If you ever plan to edit the theme's code, duplicate the theme first and edit the copy: **Actions → Duplicate**. Editing code on a live theme means mistakes are visible to customers straight away, and it makes theme updates harder to apply later.

Support does not cover code you have changed yourself. See [Support policy](/roomfolk/support/support-policy.md).


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