# How to Add Social Reels to the Impulse Theme

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

Customer clips shown in a social frame — feed post or vertical reel — with handle, caption, platform logo and sound line. Hashtags in the caption tint themselves. The likes and comments row is deliberately decorative: the icons are not buttons and the counts are the real numbers you type, so nothing on the page pretends to be live. This guide shows how to add the Social Reels 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 shoppable video & stories like this one are exactly the kind of section it doesn't ship out of the box.

## Why Social Reels fits Impulse

Product-linked videos, story bubbles and reels that bring products to life. On Impulse, Social Reels slots in like any built-in section: it inherits the theme's fonts by default, picks up your color choices in the editor, and lives alongside Impulse's own sections in the picker — prefixed "SShop:" so it's easy to spot.

## 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 “Social Reels” in the library** — Open the app and browse to it — it's in the Shoppable Video & Stories 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:Social Reels” 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 Social Reels work with the Impulse theme?

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

### Will Social Reels 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 Social Reels free, and what if I uninstall Section Shop?

Social Reels 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.