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title: Set up your theme
description: Follow the setup guide on the Dashboard to add the brand page and directory templates, create the directory page and turn on the styles.
---

The **Setup guide** on VendorDeck's **Dashboard** checks your published theme and ticks off each step once it finds it. Its buttons open the theme editor with the block already added: click **Save** there, then **Check again** in VendorDeck.

1. **Import your brands**

    VendorDeck does this when you install it. If no brands show up, open **Brands** and click **Sync brands**.

2. **Add Brand page content to the brand template**

    Brand pages use a page template named exactly `brand`. Click **Open theme editor**, open the page selector at the top (it shows "Home page") and choose **Pages > Create template**. Name the template `brand` and click **Create template**.

    Back in VendorDeck, click **Add Brand page content**. The theme editor opens the template with the block in a new section: click **Save**.

    Your theme's page title already shows the brand's name. If you turn on the block's **Show brand name** setting, hide the theme's **Page** section, or the name shows twice.

3. **Add Brand directory to the directory template**

    The same as the step above, with a template named exactly `brands-directory` and the **Add Brand directory** button.

4. **Create the directory page**

    Click **Create directory page**. VendorDeck creates a published page titled "Brands" at `/pages/brands`, using the directory template.

    For another address, change **Directory page handle** in **Settings > URLs** before you create the page. To rename the page later, edit it in **Online Store > Pages**. Add it to your store's menu in **Content > Menus**.

5. **Turn on Brand page styles**

    Click **Turn on Brand page styles** and **Save**. This app embed applies your [Appearance](/storefront/appearance) settings to the blocks.

    The guide also offers **Brand SEO meta tags**, an optional embed for sharing images ([SEO](/storefront/seo)).

When all five steps are done, **Dismiss guide** replaces it with a **Theme** section that shows each block's status. **Show setup guide** brings the guide back.

## Create brand pages

VendorDeck doesn't create brand pages by itself, so you choose which brands get one:

- **Several brands:** on **Brands**, select them and click **Create pages**.
- **One brand:** open it and click **Create page** in the **Status** card.

Create the `brand` template first. See [Brand pages](/brands/brand-pages) for addresses and what VendorDeck keeps up to date.

## Changing themes

Templates, blocks and app embeds belong to a theme. When you publish another theme, repeat steps 2, 3 and 5 in it. The guide only checks your published theme, and shows **Your theme has changed** when the new one is missing the templates.