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A tour of the Tabs+ admin

Products, Shared tabs, and Settings.

Written by Steve Jones

The Tabs+ admin lives inside your Shopify admin, under Apps → Tabs+ Product Descriptions. There are three main sections, accessible from the in-app navigation menu.

Products

The home screen of the app. This is a list of every product in your store, with a search box, filters, and bulk actions.

Filters

  • Tab status - products with tabs vs. without tabs.

  • Vendor, Product type, Tag, Status - standard Shopify filters.

  • Shared tab - products that include a particular shared tab.

  • Missing shared tab - products that don't include a particular shared tab (handy for finding products you've forgotten to apply something to).

Bulk actions

  • Select multiple products and click Add shared tab to apply a shared tab to all of them at once. See Bulk-applying shared tabs.

Other actions

  • Import - bulk-load product/variant content from a CSV file.

  • Export - download a CSV of your product/variant content.

See Importing and exporting via CSV. Import and Export features are available on the Pro plan.

The product detail page

Clicking a product opens its detail page, where you can:

  • Edit the product's tabs.

  • Switch between the base product and individual variants in the left-hand list.

  • For variants, opt in to a custom title and/or custom description.

  • Save drafts and publish changes.

  • Open the product in the Shopify admin, theme editor, or live storefront from the View menu.

  • View revision history (Pro) and revert to an earlier version.

Shared tabs

Shared tabs are reusable templates - build a tab once, apply it to many products. Use this section to:

  • Create a new shared tab.

  • Edit an existing one (changes propagate to every product using it).

  • Delete a shared tab (it's removed from every product).

Each shared tab has a label, an optional icon, an optional internal title, content, and a visibility setting (apply automatically to all products, or only when you manually add it).

Settings

The settings page contains:

  • Subscription - your current plan, change plan, or cancel.

  • Icons - upload and manage your custom icons (Pro).

  • Theme - pick a theme and jump straight into the theme editor's App embeds panel to configure Tabs+.

Drafts and publishing

Throughout the app, your changes are saved as drafts first. A draft only goes live on the storefront once you click Publish changes on a product. This lets you make several edits, preview them, and then push them live in one go.

  • You can discard a draft to revert to the last published version.

  • Drafts are saved automatically as you type.

  • Drafts can be previewed in the theme editor - see Getting started for how to preview.

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