# How to Add Countdown Hero to the Dawn Theme

> Source: https://section-shop.com/theme-guides/dawn/add-countdown-hero/ — Section Shop, 56 free native Shopify sections. Install: https://apps.shopify.com/section-shop

Full width hero section with background image, overlay, and countdown timer. Features customizable minimum height, overlay opacity, and prominent countdown display. This guide shows how to add the Countdown Hero 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 countdown timers like this one are exactly the kind of section it doesn't ship out of the box.

## Why Countdown Hero fits Dawn

Deadline-driven sections for launches, drops and sales — hero countdowns, boxed timers and product-launch layouts. For Dawn specifically, this is one of the strongest matches in the library: no countdown or urgency sections, and Countdown Hero 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 “Countdown Hero” in the library** — Open the app and browse to it — it's in the Countdown Timers 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:Countdown Hero” 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 Countdown Hero work with the Dawn theme?

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

### Will Countdown Hero 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 Countdown Hero free, and what if I uninstall Section Shop?

Countdown Hero is free, like every section in the 56-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.