# How to Add Announcement Bar 2 to the Dawn Theme

> Source: https://section-shop.com/theme-guides/dawn/add-announcement-bar-2/ — Section Shop, 164 free native Shopify sections. Install: https://apps.shopify.com/section-shop

A wide-tracked statement bar. The messages are plain text on purpose, which is what lets the whole bar safely become one link: a message that could contain a link of its own would put an anchor inside an anchor, and browsers quietly tear that apart. Letter spacing is what gives the bar its look. This guide shows how to add the Announcement Bar 2 section to the Dawn theme with Section Shop — as a native Online Store 2.0 section, customized in the theme editor, without touching Dawn's code. Dawn is a free theme by Shopify, known for speed, minimalism, being the Online Store 2.0 reference — and announcement bars like this one are exactly the kind of section it doesn't ship out of the box.

## Why Announcement Bar 2 fits Dawn

Marquees, tickers and rotating bars that push promotions, shipping thresholds and urgency without touching your theme. For Dawn specifically, this is one of the strongest matches in the library: no countdown or urgency sections, and Announcement Bar 2 fills that gap while inheriting Dawn's typography automatically, so it looks native from the first save. Dawn’s minimal typography carries over automatically: Section Shop sections inherit your Dawn font settings by default, so added sections look native from the first save.

## Steps

1. **Install Section Shop (free)** — Add the app from the Shopify App Store. It's free, carries the Built for Shopify badge, and changes nothing in your Dawn setup until you add a section.
2. **Find “Announcement Bar 2” in the library** — Open the app and browse to it — it's in the Announcement Bars category — or use search.
3. **Click “Add to theme”** — Section Shop writes the section into your Dawn theme through Shopify's official theme API, the same mechanism Dawn uses for its own sections.
4. **Open the Dawn theme editor** — In Online Store → Themes → Customize, click “Add section”: you'll find it as “SShop:Announcement Bar 2” in the picker.
5. **Customize and save** — Adjust text, images, colors and layout. Typography follows your Dawn font settings by default — or switch the section to any Shopify font. Hit Save and it's live.

## FAQ

### Does Announcement Bar 2 work with the Dawn theme?

Yes. Dawn is an Online Store 2.0 theme, and Announcement Bar 2 installs as a native OS 2.0 section through Shopify's official theme API. It appears in Dawn's theme editor as “SShop:Announcement Bar 2”, alongside the theme's own sections.

### Will Announcement Bar 2 match Dawn's design?

By default the section inherits your theme's fonts, so it picks up Dawn's typography automatically. Colors, spacing, images and content are all editable in the theme editor — no CSS required.

### Is Announcement Bar 2 free, and what if I uninstall Section Shop?

Announcement Bar 2 is free, like every section in the 164-section library. Once added it's a standard theme file: if you uninstall the app, the section stays in your Dawn theme and keeps working.