Configure and customize

A theme is often shared by more than one store, so anything that should differ between them needs to be a setting rather than a hard-coded value in a template.

These articles cover the two ways to do that: variables for configuration, and locales for language.

In this section

• Theme variables — key-value settings a template reads, so a theme can be adjusted without editing its code
• Supporting multiple languages in your theme — theme locales, translation strings, and the t filter