# How to Add Announcement Bar 1 to the Impulse Theme

> Source: https://section-shop.com/theme-guides/impulse/add-announcement-bar-1/ — Section Shop, 164 free native Shopify sections. Install: https://apps.shopify.com/section-shop

A slim promotional bar whose messages loop across the top of the page. The loop is pure CSS: the message set is rendered twice and the track slides exactly half its width, so it repeats with no seam and no JavaScript at all. With a single message the bar simply stays still and centred, instead of sliding away and leaving a blank strip. This guide shows how to add the Announcement Bar 1 section to the Impulse theme with Section Shop — as a native Online Store 2.0 section, customized in the theme editor, without touching Impulse's code. Impulse is a premium theme by Archetype Themes, known for promotion-driven layouts and sales events — and announcement bars like this one are exactly the kind of section it doesn't ship out of the box.

## Why Announcement Bar 1 fits Impulse

Marquees, tickers and rotating bars that push promotions, shipping thresholds and urgency without touching your theme. For Impulse specifically, this is one of the strongest matches in the library: even more urgency formats for launches and drops, and Announcement Bar 1 fills that gap while inheriting Impulse's typography automatically, so it looks native from the first save. Stack an Urgency Split Bar above a Countdown Hero for launches — Impulse’s promo DNA plus a hard deadline.

## 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 Impulse setup until you add a section.
2. **Find “Announcement Bar 1” 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 Impulse theme through Shopify's official theme API, the same mechanism Impulse uses for its own sections.
4. **Open the Impulse theme editor** — In Online Store → Themes → Customize, click “Add section”: you'll find it as “SShop:Announcement Bar 1” in the picker.
5. **Customize and save** — Adjust text, images, colors and layout. Typography follows your Impulse font settings by default — or switch the section to any Shopify font. Hit Save and it's live.

## FAQ

### Does Announcement Bar 1 work with the Impulse theme?

Yes. Impulse is an Online Store 2.0 theme, and Announcement Bar 1 installs as a native OS 2.0 section through Shopify's official theme API. It appears in Impulse's theme editor as “SShop:Announcement Bar 1”, alongside the theme's own sections.

### Will Announcement Bar 1 match Impulse's design?

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

### Is Announcement Bar 1 free, and what if I uninstall Section Shop?

Announcement Bar 1 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 Impulse theme and keeps working.