Site designs need to be designed for industry categories currently sold through the Showit Design Market (sell other designs on your own store).

You’ll need to start your designs from our Designer Starter Templates, the Simple design, or one of your derivatives of those templates (create your own starter templates)

Designs started from another designer's work will be immediately disqualified. (yes, we can tell)

The designer is responsible for acquiring and maintaining all licenses for the distribution of media used in their design, including custom fonts, photos, icons, graphics and media. Showit will not be held responsible.

All media (custom fonts, images, videos) used within a design is distributed to the end user when it is shared. Any restrictions on use of the design content in a user's site should be communicated in the written store description of the design, available before purchase.
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Site designs need to be designed for industry categories currently sold through the Showit Design Market (sell other designs on your own store)

All placeholder text must be in English—no Lorem Ipsum see our suggestions

All images must be safe for work

All elements on each canvas must be organized from top to bottom based on mobile layout. (With exceptions for layering)

Shape elements should be named clearly to reflect their purpose (e.g., "Text Background" instead of "Rectangle 34")
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The Vanity URL should be customized and unique to the design. Avoid using the default Showit Vanity URL.

The design must include the following required pages:

Pages that are exclusively used for educating the end user or supplying resources for the user to use on their final design should be set as Unpublished unless the content is meant to be shown in the design preview.

All pages must use short, generic names (e.g., "About" instead of "About Amy")

SEO fields on every page must be left blank for the end user to fill in

All fonts shown on the Fonts tab are in use within the design. Any unused fonts have been removed from the active font list

There are no missing fonts in the design (“-Choose a font-” does not appear on any text boxes)

The designer has the rights to distribute any uploaded fonts included in the design (Google Fonts are free to distribute)

All Type Styles in the Design Settings must have an assigned font
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Both the Primary and Secondary button options should be customized with Fonts and colors to fit the design.

Manually created buttons with separate text and shape elements should be converted to buttons.

Each design must utilize a Site Canvas Set for navigation elements such as Header, Footer, and Mobile Navigation

Internal navigation links on navigation canvases must have the Text Tag set to "Nav"

No text element in any Site Canvas should be tagged as H1

Buy Now or Purchase canvases are not permitted to display on the vanity URL of the template

Have all links set with the "Hide This Site Canvas" click action

If used, the Sticky and/or Hidden to Start settings must function correctly across all pages

Maintain the highest stacking order of all canvases on every page
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All social icons must use the "Social Link" click action

If a social feed is present in the design, it must use Showit’s Social Grid Widget–not a third party code.
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Have labels for all fields that accurately describe their purpose

Include the following field settings:

Maintain proper field order in the Layers panel (top to bottom as shown on mobile)

Submit button/text must have the "Submit Contact Form" action

Confirmation canvas/page must be linked and designed

Any text element connected to “Submit” must have the Text Tag set to "div"
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Galleries must not use Vertical Edge Locking

Tiled Galleries must be placed inside canvases set to "Grow With Content"

Each page must contain exactly one H1 tag

No page should have multiple or missing H1 tags

Text elements used purely for design should use the Text Tag: "div"
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Must be set to "Post List (Default)" — no other template should be set as Post List

Include pagination using Newer Posts Link/Older Posts Link placeholders

Featured Images and "Read More" buttons must link to WordPress Posts

Layout should handle dynamic text areas properly

Post Title must be tagged as H2 (not H1)

The design should be tested using a Designer Test Blog on both desktop and mobile prior to submission
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Must be set to "Single Post" — no other template should be set as Single Post

Post Title and Post Content placeholders must be in separate canvases, "Grow With Content" should be active on both of these canvases

Post elements (Title, Date, Content, Image) must be on WordPress "In Post Loop" canvases

Comment areas must be on WordPress "Static Content" canvases

The design should be tested using a Designer Test Blog on both desktop and mobile prior to submission
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Must be set with the WordPress Template: "Page" — no other template should be set as Page

Post Title and Post Content placeholders must be in separate, "Grow With Content" canvases

Page elements (Title, Date, Content, Image) must be on WordPress "In Post Loop" canvas type

Ensure proper growth and layout on both desktop and mobile
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The 404 page must be a Blog Template named exactly “404”

The 404 page must use the “404” WordPress Template

To avoid users accidentally publishing a Demo Blog page (it happens all too often); please link to the standard blog page in your navigation when you generate your Share Key. Then you can link it back to the demo blog page to publish for template viewing purposes.

To set up the end user for success, we recommend creating a “Getting started” folder in the design that holds pages containing all the info someone might need to customize your template and make it their own! (This could include “Resource” and “Education” pages)

Having all of this information in one folder can make an easy reference point for the end user