Password page
The page visitors see while your store is password protected — before launch, during a rebuild, or for a private sale. It is usually the very first thing anyone sees of your store, so Peregrine treats it as a real page rather than a bare form.
Turning password protection on
- In Shopify admin, go to Online Store → Preferences.
- Scroll to Password protection and tick Restrict access to visitors with the password.
- Set a password — this is what you give to people you want to let in. It is not your admin password.
- Write a message for your visitors. This is the text Peregrine shows under your logo, so it is worth a sentence or two rather than leaving it empty.
- Save.
Shopify's own guide to password pages covers the admin side in more detail.
On a development store you will not see this page. Shopify always shows its own password page on development stores and there is no way to override it — this is a Shopify rule, not a theme limitation. To preview Peregrine's password page, open the theme editor and switch the page selector to Password, or test on a store that is on a paid plan.
What the page shows
- Your logo, taken from Settings → General → Brand in your Shopify admin (the same logo Shopify uses at checkout and in the Shop app). If you have not set one there, your store name is shown as text instead — the page always identifies the store one way or the other. The header's logo is set separately, on the header section, so a store can carry a full wordmark in the header and a compact mark here.
- Your visitor message, the one you wrote in Preferences above. If you leave it blank, Peregrine shows a short standard line so the page never reduces to a lone password box.
- The password box, for the people you have given the password to.
- An email sign-up, optional and on by default — see below.
- A link back to your admin, so you can always get in yourself.
Settings
Open the theme editor, switch the page selector to Password, and select the section.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Background image | Optional full-page photo. With an image set, your text sits on a solid panel in the section's background colour, so it stays readable whatever the photo looks like. The image honours the focal point you set on it in Shopify admin. |
| Image dimming | Only appears once you have chosen an image. Darkens the photo behind the panel. Defaults to 40%. |
| Logo width | 60–320px. Uses the logo from Settings → General → Brand. |
| Show email sign-up | On by default. Adds an email field under the password box. Sign-ups go into Customers in Shopify admin, tagged newsletter and prospect so you can find exactly the people who registered interest before you opened. |
| Sign-up heading | The line above that field. "Be the first to know" by default. |
| Background / Text | Leave blank to use your theme colours, which is what most stores want. Set them if you want the password page to look different from the rest of the store. |
Why the email sign-up is worth leaving on
A password-protected store has exactly one thing it can ask a visitor for. Someone who arrives before you open and likes what they see has no way to buy and no reason to come back unless you give them one — and a launch-day email to people who already asked to hear from you is the cheapest audience you will ever have. If you would rather not collect addresses, one tick switches it off.
Speed
The password page loads none of the theme's global CSS or JavaScript — no header, no cart, no menus, because none of them are on the page. It is your fonts, a small stylesheet and the forms. There is no JavaScript on it at all, so it works with scripts blocked.