User Guide - How to add the recommendation widget to your BigCommerce site

Any Page

To add the recommendation widget to any page, we need to use editing theme files (Advanced) approach.

Note: If you are theme developer, skip this tutorial and use your local stencil development environment to insert the widget HTML snippet . Otherwise, please continue reading.

  1. Go to BigCommerce Admin Panel -> Storefront -> My Themes
  2. Under "Current Theme" section, click on Advanced -> Edit Theme Files to open the Stencil Theme Editor in a new window.

    Note: if you are using a out of the box BigCommerce theme, you may not see the "Edit Theme Files" option. You will need to click on "Make a Copy" first to make a copy of your theme, then apply the theme copy as your current theme in order to edit the theme files. See BigCommerce official document for details.
  3. On the left side of the Stencil Theme Editor, click on templates -> pages and select a page you want to add the widget on. For example, if you want to add the widget to the blog page, then open the corresponding blog.html HTML template. Note: the files layout and content may vary based on different themes.
  4. In the HTML template file, add the widget HTML snippet at the desired place. See this  for how to edit the theme file.
  5. Click on "Save & apply file" to save your changes. It may take several minutes to save and apply the changes to your store website.
  6. Now go to the page of your website that you just edited. Voilà, the recommendation widget shows up on the page!
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