Image strip

A full-width strip of square images with a two-pixel gap, and an optional caption centred underneath — usually a hashtag. Each image can link out. App blocks are allowed, so a live Instagram feed can occupy a cell in the same grid as your own curated stills.

Section settings

Setting	Type	Default	What it does
Heading	Text	—	The caption, shown centred in the accent colour underneath the strip. Typically a hashtag.
Columns	Range, 3–8, step 1	6	Columns on desktop.
Image focal point	Select — Top / Upper / Centre / Lower / Bottom	upper	Which part of each image stays in frame when it is cropped square. Applies to every image.
Top spacing	Range, 0–160 px	48	Top spacing.
Bottom spacing	Range, 0–160 px	48	Bottom spacing.

This section has no colour-scheme setting — the images are the surface.

Blocks

Up to twelve blocks, of two kinds.

Image (shot):

Setting	Type	Default	What it does
Image	Image	—	The photo, cropped square. Placeholder when unset.
Button link	URL	—	Makes the cell a link — to the post, or to the product in the photo.

App block — any app block that supports sections. It takes a cell of its own in the grid, which is how a live social feed drops in alongside hand-picked images.

The preset ships with six image blocks.

Behaviour worth knowing

The caption sits outside the grid, under the full-width strip, centred and in the accent colour. It is not a section heading — if you want a heading above the strip, put a Statement or an Editorial plate above it.

Linked cells behave differently from unlinked ones. Every image zooms slightly on hover; cells that link somewhere also take an accent wash, so a shopper can see which photos are clickable before they click.

The focal point matters more here than anywhere else. Everything is cropped hard to a square, and the default is Upper precisely because these are usually photos of people. If you are posting flat-lays or details, switch it to Centre.

Responsive steps: three columns below 860 px and two below 480 px, whatever columns is set to. A six-across strip becomes a two-across one on a phone, so twelve images means six rows — which is a lot of page. Six to eight images is usually enough.

Tip

Link each image to the product in it rather than to the Instagram post. A customer looking at someone wearing the jacket is one tap from the jacket; sending them to Instagram sends them out of your store, and they rarely come back.

Caution

Get permission before reposting a customer’s or creator’s photo, even when they tagged you. A direct message asking, with credit offered, takes a minute. And do not use stock photography here — the Theme Store rejects demos that pass stock images off as customer content, and shoppers can tell.