Featured brands

The Featured row sits at the top (or wherever you position it) of your brand directory and highlights the vendors you care most about - the heroes of your catalogue. It's a separate visual treatment from the main A-Z list.

Marking a brand as featured

1. Open Easy Brand Page in your Shopify admin.
2. Click Brands in the side nav.
3. Find the brand you want to feature.
4. Click the star icon next to it.

The star turns solid, and on the next scan (or settings save), the brand metafield updates and the Featured row shows it.

Unfavouriting works the same way - click the solid star to turn it off.

Where the Featured row appears

Position is controlled in the theme block, not the admin. Open the Brand Page block in the theme editor and look for Featured brands → Position. Three choices:

• Before heading and search - very top of the page. Use this when the featured row is the most important content on the page.
• Below heading - between your heading and the A-Z list. Use this for a more balanced layout.
• Below all brands - at the bottom of the directory. Use this for a "recap" treatment.

You can also wrap the row in a bordered container (the Show container setting) to visually separate it from the main directory.

Featured-only display options

The Featured row has settings independent of the main directory:

• Show featured collection images - if a featured brand is mapped to a collection that has an image, use that image as the card background. Useful for image-first layouts where the brand logo or hero image lives on the collection itself.
• Image only (hide brand name) - logos only, no text labels. Combined with collection images, this gives you a clean logo wall above the directory.
• Section heading - the text above the Featured row (default "Featured Brands"). Editable per locale through Shopify's standard theme translation flow.
• Section heading font size - sized independently of the main heading.
• Columns desktop / mobile - column count for the Featured row, independent of the main grid.

Typical setups

Logo wall above A-Z

• Position: Before heading and search.
• Container: Off.
• Show collection images: On.
• Image only: On.
• Columns: 6 desktop, 3 mobile.

Result: a clean strip of brand logos across the top, then the heading + search + A-Z list below.

Highlight cards before the directory

• Position: Below heading.
• Container: On.
• Show collection images: Off.
• Image only: Off.
• Columns: 4 desktop, 2 mobile.

Result: a bordered "Featured Brands" section between the page heading and the full directory, with text-based brand cards.

Bottom recap

• Position: Below all brands.
• Container: On.
• Show collection images: On.
• Image only: Off.

Result: a "Our favourite brands" callout below the full directory.

Featured brands and collection images

If you turn on "Show featured collection images" but a featured brand has no mapped collection (or the mapped collection has no image), the card falls back to a text-only display. There's no broken-image state - it gracefully degrades.

See Brand-to-collection mapping for how vendors map to collections.

What's next

• Design and layout - the full visual control surface.
• Brand-to-collection mapping - how Easy Brand Page picks each brand's link target.