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Leveraging The Power Of Alternate Layouts In Shopify
I suspect a lot of Shopify developers are like me and spend so much time daily working on template, section, and snippet files that it is easy to overlook the most powerful part of the Shopify theme architecture: layout files. Don’t worry, none of us have time for everything, and...
Continue ReadingChanging Your Collection Header Image Depending On The Tag
Header images are often used on Collection pages in Shopify as a bit of a preview of what is to come. Your collection page is often overlooked as far as...
Continue ReadingHow To Get Around Shopify's 50 Product Limit In Collections
Although Shopify is an incredible resource for eCommerce, Shopify intentionally limits the number of products you can access in the collection object to 50 per page. In other words, the...
Continue ReadingPotential ‘Boom’ of Voice Search in Shopify
Hi Siri - Ok Google - Hi Alexa, any of these sound familiar? I’m guessing that your answer is yes. As these home assistants expand rapidly and suddenly everybody uses...
Continue ReadingRandomizing Content In Shopify
At this point, you have most likely come to learn that, any time your client asks for a “quick update” or a really “simple fix” it’s never actually quick or...
Continue ReadingMake It Searchable: A Hot Tip On Shopify Website Searchability
You’ve heard it before, and you’ll hear it again. You only get so many seconds of engagement from a potential site visitor before they bounce, so making your website completely...
Continue ReadingA Sneaky Yet Useful Option For Optimizing Images on Shopify
One of the best things you can do for yourself and for your business is to educate yourself on all of the platforms, services, and applications that you use in...
Continue ReadingShopify Filter By Tag With Capital Letters
Shopify offers an automatic way for filtering collections, this is by using product tags. If you want to see only the products that have a specific tag from a collection,...
Continue ReadingBulk Control Fonts And Color Styles in Shopify With Just A Link
When making a Shopify online store, you want to be able to control every single aspect of your website. You want each page to look exactly like you want (or...
Continue ReadingExpanding the Shopify Rich Text Editor with Shortcodes
Look at you, you’re a renaissance man… or woman! You aren’t constrained by anything. Your products have as many variants as YOU decide, not what your platform tells you. Only...
Continue ReadingHow To Add A Link Towards The First Collection That Contains A Product
Sometimes, if you take enough turns, you forget the way back. That’s true for both exploring nature and exploring websites. The best bet to find your way back is the...
Continue ReadingAutomatically Open the First Available Variant Using Liquid and jQuery
What is an online store if you can’t have multiple options of every item. What are you only going to sell shirts in one color, shoes in one size, and...
Continue ReadingParsing Query String Parameters in Shopify
While Shopify is a very powerful tool for eCommerce businesses to showcase their products and customize their website to suit their specific needs, when it comes to the nitty gritty...
Continue ReadingBlack Friday and Cyber Monday Survival Guide for Shopify Store Owners
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are obviously major shopping holidays here in the United States. For some of us, it’s an exciting time,...
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 ReadingSometimes You Just Want More Words. How to Add a Secondary Product Description in Shopify.
They say that a picture is worth 1,000 words, but sometimes your client wants another 1,000… because, you know… otherwise, the world apparently explodes. Or, sometimes you just have a...
Continue ReadingCustomize Your Product Variant Dropdown in Shopify
Outside of the all of the nitty gritty details of what makes your business function, the core of what your users interact with on a daily basis is your brand...
Continue ReadingTake Control of More Than the Color Wheel and Apply RGBA Color Elements to Shopify via Theme Editor
When designing the elements of your Shopify store, you have the nearly infinite color spectrum at your fingertips. Colors that only have names on paint store color swatches. The conventional...
Continue ReadingAdding User Editable YouTube Video Fields in Shopify
Introduction It’s 2019, pictures are out and videos are in. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, than how many words is a video worth? 1 million? Depends on the...
Continue ReadingHow to Develop a "Build a Box" Product in Shopify
IT’S ALIVE! Cried Dr. Frankenstein as his monster came to life. A monster composite monster comprised of a number of parts from many different people. A Halloween classic, and surprisingly...
Continue ReadingSHOW ME THE MONEY: How to Find the Price of the Most Expensive Item in a Shopify Store
Whether it’s for bragging rights, or you’re trying to give someone an idea of the prices of the products you sell, or you just want to know for the hell...
Continue ReadingTwo Pictures for the Price of One! The Shopify Gallery Hack You’ve Been Looking For
Every click counts. Every swipe matters. Every scroll is important. The speed with which people are cruising through websites makes the Autobahn look like an elementary school parking lot, which...
Continue ReadingMake Your Shopify Product Pages Sing With This Handy Sections/Blocks Workaround
That Shopify homepage is the star of the show, no doubt! That’s where you land, that’s where the funnel begins, that’s where the magic happens. Luckily, Shopify gives you an...
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