Red Plug Design Shopify Theme Help: Avenue, Bespoke and Roam

Red Plug themes do a lot from the editor. These jobs go past it.

Sub collections on Avenue. One sub collection setup drives collection menus, breadcrumbs, sliders and product page breadcrumbs. Mapping a deep catalog into it before launch saves a menu rebuild later.

Filters without a filter app. Avenue's multi-dropdown dynamic filters run on the homepage and collection pages. Deciding which product data feeds them, and cleaning that data, is the real job.

Product comparison. Avenue lines up to five products side by side on vendor, rating, price, variants and up to 20 custom metafields. Someone has to define those metafields and fill them across the catalog.

Editorial layouts in Bespoke. Bespoke offers 20 blocks for building custom sections plus layered layout options. Turning a lookbook-style design into those blocks is design and build work at once.

Edits carried to a new release. Avenue reached 13.3.1 and Bespoke 6.0.2 on September 28, 2026. A copy with code edits needs them merged into the new version on a duplicate, which is standard theme customization work.

Try the studio first for small fixes. Red Plug's own site lists theme customization and custom development, and its help center says it sometimes fits setup requests in when capacity allows.

Few developers specialize in one theme studio, so judge candidates on how well they read Red Plug's structure.

Ask how they'd set up sub collections. On Avenue, a good answer starts with your collection tree on paper and ends with menus and breadcrumbs generated from it, not hand-built menus.

Ask where comparison data will live. Listen for clearly named metafields and a plan to fill them in bulk, rather than a third-party comparison app stacked on a theme that already has one.

Ask which preset you're on. Trail and Pike sit on Avenue's code; Splendor, Workshop and Nature on Bespoke's. Someone who mixes them up will quote for the wrong theme.

Ask about right-to-left. All three themes list RTL support. Selling in Arabic or Hebrew? Ask for one RTL test page before the full build.

Signs of a poor fit. A separate filter or comparison app proposed for Avenue without checking the built-in ones. No duplicate theme. No question about your theme version.

Try them on one collection. Pay for the comparison feature on a single collection with three metafields. If the data model is clean there, the rest of the catalog follows the same pattern.

Three themes, ten listings. Avenue carries the Pike and Trail presets, Bespoke carries Splendor, Workshop and Nature, and Roam carries Trek and Wander. Red Plug aims each preset at a niche: hardware, food and drink, beauty, auto, garden, sports and kids.

Versions as of October 2026. Avenue 13.3.1 and Bespoke 6.0.2 shipped on September 28, 2026. Roam 8.0.5 came out on September 9.

Paid once. The Theme Store lists Avenue and Bespoke as one-time payments with a lifetime license.

Built-ins that replace apps. Avenue lists advanced filtering, a quick order list and pre-orders. Bespoke and Roam list gift wrapping and pre-orders, and Roam lists combined listings for Shopify Plus stores.

Mobile-first option. Roam is pitched at smaller screens, with sticky call-to-action buttons on product, collection and cart pages and more than 40 image filters.

Translations and RTL. All three list EU translations in English, French, Italian, German and Spanish, plus right-to-left support.

Retired names. The help center still hosts docs for Handy and Artisan, which aren't on Red Plug's Theme Store page today. Stores on those themes should confirm what support remains before paying for new work.

Support route. Requests go through a form on Red Plug's Zendesk help center, answered on weekdays.

Most Red Plug jobs fit one of these. Name the closest one when you ask for a price.