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Increase Sales with an "Upsell" Product Block
Making an online sale isn't as easy as it sounds. You have to market properly to attract customers to your site, build a user-friendly online shop and have a product that out-competes similar brands. So once you finally have a patron committed to purchasing your product, it's important to zone...
Continue ReadingOnline Store 2.0 Changes For Theme Kit/CLI
Shopify's recent Online Store 2.0 upgrade is like a gorgeous gift box triple sealed with duct tape. While it has desirable features that will benefit your business, it also takes...
Continue ReadingShopify Functions Replaces Shopify Scripts
Shopify Scripts is a free tool that can customize discounts in a customer's cart. Unfortunately, Shopify recently announced that support for Shopify Scripts is ending on August 13, 2024 and...
Continue ReadingShopify Online Store 2.0
Today we’re getting down to the nitty gritty of the latest Shopify Online Store update. If you’re reading this as a Shopify developer, it’s likely that you’re already well aware...
Continue ReadingUsing Metafields on the Shopify Storefront API
We’ve mentioned before that many web developers at Slicedbread like to utilize the Shopify Storefront API and GraphQL in order to access store data in fast and creative ways. But...
Continue ReadingAutomate your Shopify store with ‘Flow’
Good news for Shopify subscribers on the Plus, Advanced and Standard plans: a powerful automation tool called Flow is now available to you! Flow was previously only available to users...
Continue ReadingWrong Address Quick Fix in Shopify
There’s nothing worse than an unhappy customer. And what’s a big contributor to disappointment when it comes to e-commerce purchases? Shipping mistakes. That’s why this week we’re digging into troubleshooting...
Continue ReadingOptimizing Search Results in Shopify For Developers
When a client is navigating through a Shopify store, speed is of utmost importance. The faster they can find the product they’re looking for, the more likely they are to...
Continue ReadingUsing Quantity Checks To Make Shopify Product Pages Inventory More Aware
The fluctuation of product inventory levels in all Shopify stores is inevitable. As visitors make purchases, products or product lines are withdrawn from sale. And at a core level, Shopify...
Continue ReadingHow to Develop a "Build a Box" Product in Shopify - Part 2: How To Remove The Limit On Flavors In The Box
That’s right folks! A sequel… and let me say something right off the bat. I know that most sequels are never as good as the original, but I’m going to...
Continue ReadingShow Newsletter Popup After 3 Days
Think about the last time you went to pretty much any eCommerce website. Was there a little pop-up that came up to offer you either some sort of sale...
Continue ReadingHow To Properly Test Shopify & Wordpress(Woocommerce) Stores
If you’ve had a Shopify or Wordpress/Woocommerce store for a long time, and this happens to newbies as well - you probably faced some strange cases with a large number...
Continue ReadingSupercharge Your YouTube Video Load Times With The Lite YouTube Embed Plugin
Almost all websites out there these days feature YouTube videos embedded on the page. If you don’t, get with the program! It’s 2020! if you do, read on, this is...
Continue ReadingAdd An Emulated Instagram Feed To Your Shopify Store
As we recently discussed in a blog post, the current Instagram API has now been deprecated and there is a good chance that Instagram feeds on your Shopify stores stopped...
Continue ReadingDealing with FOUC (Flash of Unstyled Content)
Let’s do a little visualization… You’re browsing the web, perhaps looking for your next big vacation. You’re looking through various websites and eventually you click on one that seems to...
Continue ReadingChanging The Variant On A Thumbnail Click in Shopify Venture Theme
If your Shopify store has the Venture theme active, which is a very common theme for Shopify, the product page image area consists of an image thumbnails slider that appears...
Continue ReadingDynamic Ajax Sorting On Shopify Collections
Shopify collections typically come with sorting and filtering options - but only on the collection page itself. But what about everywhere else? What if you want to sort and filter...
Continue ReadingHow To Develop a "Build a Box" Product In Shopify - Part 3: Building A Necklace With A "Drag And Drop" User Interface
We previously wrote articles explaining how to develop a Build a Box product in Shopify and how to remove the limit on flavors in the box. In this article we...
Continue ReadingSpeech to Text Recognition & Shopify Apps
With Shopify’s latest update, we can see that voice search is gaining more and more popularity and that trend is not going to end any time soon. That being said,...
Continue ReadingYour Site's Instagram Feed Will Very Likely Stop Working Soon
UPDATE: According to an update from February 20, 2020, Instagram's legacy API has postponed its deprecation from March 2nd, 2020 to June 29, 2020. This will provide third-parties more time to...
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