A quick little tutorial on using the Shopify Desktop Theme Editor (Theme Sync...
The Shopify Desktop Theme Editor is a really big step forward for anyone who builds Shopify themes. Before this Mac app came out, you would either need to edit your code in Shopify’s built-in online...
View ArticleHow to exclude a tag when doing a for loop to list tags in Shopify
At some point when working with Shopify you’ll probably need to output a list of tags onto the screen. When doing that, you might have situations where you want to exclude certain tags from what shows...
View ArticleUsing and/or with if statements (conditionals) in the Liquid templating language
Just a quick thing here but a lot of times when I’m working on a Shopify theme and coding in the Liquid template language I forget the syntax to combine 2 if statements. First, here is how you would...
View ArticleHow to make a search results page in Shopify
To use the correct terminology, what we’re really talking about in this tutorial is how to make a template in your Shopify theme that will generate a search results page. The template we’ll be working...
View ArticleHow to limit Shopify search results to a particular product type
Sometimes in Shopify you might want to modify the search on your site (store) so that only certain product types show up in the results. If you go into the code of your search.liquid file and find the...
View ArticlePaying a web designer on commission to build your Shopify web store
I wish I remembered the name of the firm, but a few years ago I read an interview with a small web design company that did a lot of e-commerce work. After doing several e-commerce websites, they...
View ArticleShopify reports make it easier to dig into your sales numbers
The Shopify blog has a post called Announcing 5 New Shopify Features to Help You Sell More. That post has a lot of information and links to full documentation about the features they mention. The main...
View ArticleThe difference between options, option values, and variants in Shopify
One of the things that can be a little confusing in Shopify is understanding the difference between options and variants when entering or editing a product in your store. To get comfortable working...
View ArticleHow to add content to only the home page of a Shopify store
Sometimes in Shopify you might want to have a certain piece of content or a specific design element on only the homepage of your Shopify store, or on every page except the homepage of your Shopify...
View ArticleHow to list links to all collections in Shopify (and how to leave out certain...
When building a Shopify website (which usually means you’re building or customizing a Shopify theme) it is pretty common to find yourself needing to make a list of all the collections in your store....
View ArticleHow to display current inventory numbers for each variant of a product in...
This is just another little code snippet that you might find useful in Shopify. You can show when a product is unavailable due to being out-of-stock by placing something like the following pseudocode...
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Using linklists in Shopify to create and manage navigation menus
Making and managing navigation menus in Shopify is easy to do using the linklist functionality already built into the system. At various places in the interface and documentation, you might see this...
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