How to add a categories slider to Horizon or any 2.0 Shopify theme

Categories Slider Section for Shopify

The Categories Slider is one of the simplest ways to help customers explore your store faster. Instead of scrolling through long collection lists or menus, you can now display your top categories in a scrollable, mobile-friendly slider directly on your homepage or any page you choose.

With just a few clicks, you can showcase collections like “New Arrivals,” “Tops,” “Accessories,” or “Gift Ideas,” all inside a modern horizontal carousel that works beautifully on desktop and mobile.

What It Does

The Categories Slider lets you display a row of featured collections that customers can swipe or click through. Each slide includes:

• A featured image (automatically pulled from the collection or uploaded manually)
• A title and link
• Optional arrows or pagination dots for navigation

You can customize:

• How many slides show per view (desktop & mobile)
• Image ratio and spacing
• Text position and alignment
• Whether arrows or dots are visible

It’s fully responsive and automatically adapts to different screen sizes (no code required).

How It Works

When you add the section in your Shopify theme editor, simply select which collections you want to feature. You can add as many as you like, and reorder them with drag-and-drop.

The slider is powered by a lightweight, performance-optimized script that ensures smooth scrolling without slowing down your site.
It’s compatible with:

• Dawn: Shopify’s default theme
• Horizon: the new Shopify framework
• Any Online Store 2.0 theme: thanks to Flexi’s theme safe integration layer

That means you can safely install it, preview it, and publish it across any theme without touching code.

 

Use Cases

The Categories Slider is perfect for:

• Highlighting Shop by Category links on your homepage
• Showcasing Seasonal Collections like “Holiday Gifts” or “Fall Essentials”
• Building Shop by Room or Shop by Occasion sliders
• Creating a visual navigation bar above your product grid

Think of it as a more visual, scrollable way to guide customers through your store.