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url: https://docs.youcan.shop/themes/config/settings_data.md
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# `settings_data.json`

`config/settings_data.json` stores the values behind the theme's [settings schema](/themes/config/settings_schema), along with data for [statically rendered](/themes/sections/overview#statically-render-a-section) sections. The theme editor reads and writes this file as sellers customize the theme; it ships with the theme to provide the starting configuration.

```json
{
  "current": {
    "logo": "logo.png",
    "favicon": "favicon.png",
    "logo_width": 90,
    "cart_type": "drawer",
    "sections": {
      "announcement-bar": {
        "type": "announcement-bar",
        "settings": {}
      },
      "header": {
        "type": "header",
        "settings": {
          "logo_position": "left",
          "sticky_header_type": "on-scroll-up"
        }
      },
      "footer": {
        "type": "footer",
        "settings": { "show_social": true }
      }
    }
  },
  "presets": {
    "Default": {}
  }
}
```

## Top-level properties

| Property | Type | Required | Description |
| -------- | ---- | -------- | ----------- |
| `current` | `object` | `string` | Yes | The active configuration. An object holds the values directly; a string names a key in `presets` to use instead. |
| `presets` | `object` | Yes | Named starting configurations, keyed by preset name. `"Default": {}` is the common minimum. |

A `current` (or preset) object has two kinds of content.

### Theme setting values

Any key other than `sections` is a theme setting value, keyed by the setting `id` from `settings_schema.json`. These populate the global `settings` object in Liquid.

```json
"logo_width": 90,
"cart_type": "drawer"
```

Settings left out here fall back to the `default` declared in the schema.

### `sections`

Data for [statically rendered](/themes/sections/overview#statically-render-a-section) sections, keyed by a section ID. Each entry has the same shape as a section in a [JSON template](/themes/templates/json-templates#section-object): `type`, `settings`, `blocks`, `order`, and `disabled`.

```json
"sections": {
  "announcement-bar": {
    "type": "announcement-bar",
    "settings": { "auto_rotate": true },
    "blocks": {
      "block_one": {
        "type": "announcement_item",
        "settings": { "text": "Free shipping on all orders" }
      }
    },
    "order": ["block_one"]
  }
}
```

When a layout calls `{% section 'announcement-bar' %}`, the renderer looks up the entry whose `type` matches and renders the section with that data.

## Editing

In normal use the theme editor owns this file. Hand-edit it only to set up the configuration a theme ships with, and keep every setting `id` and section `type` aligned with `settings_schema.json` and the section files.