# How to Add Social Posts to the Refresh Theme

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

Customer posts in an Instagram or Facebook style card — profile row on top, image or clip in the middle, likes, caption and hashtags below. Three per row by default. The likes and comments row is deliberately decorative: the icons are not buttons and the counts are the real numbers you type. Switch the frame setting to show vertical reels instead. This guide shows how to add the Social Posts section to the Refresh theme with Section Shop — as a native Online Store 2.0 section, customized in the theme editor, without touching Refresh's code. Refresh is a free theme by Shopify, known for editorial layouts and generous whitespace — and shoppable video & stories like this one are exactly the kind of section it doesn't ship out of the box.

## Why Social Posts fits Refresh

Product-linked videos, story bubbles and reels that bring products to life. On Refresh, Social Posts 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 Refresh'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 Refresh setup until you add a section.
2. **Find “Social Posts” 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 Refresh theme through Shopify's official theme API, the same mechanism Refresh uses for its own sections.
4. **Open the Refresh theme editor** — In Online Store → Themes → Customize, click “Add section”: you'll find it as “SShop:Social Posts” in the picker.
5. **Customize and save** — Adjust text, images, colors and layout. Typography follows your Refresh font settings by default — or switch the section to any Shopify font. Hit Save and it's live.

## FAQ

### Does Social Posts work with the Refresh theme?

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

### Will Social Posts match Refresh's design?

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

### Is Social Posts free, and what if I uninstall Section Shop?

Social Posts 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 Refresh theme and keeps working.
