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Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

By : Ivan Djordjevic
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Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

By: Ivan Djordjevic

Overview of this book

Shopify is one of the fastest-growing eCommerce platforms, which means developers familiar with the Liquid concept are needed now more than ever. This book will help you to build a solid foundation by enabling you to develop your skills from the ground up by gaining essential theoretical knowledge of Liquid and putting that knowledge to use through hands-on projects. Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid begins by helping you get to grips with basic Shopify information, its interface and theme structure, setting up your Partner account, and creating a child theme, which is essential when preparing for any future work on Shopify. You'll then explore Liquid core features that will provide you with a basic understanding of the Liquid programming logic needed to develop any feature. As you advance to the latest and advanced features, you'll learn about JSON settings, allowing you to create any type of static or dynamic section - a must-have for becoming a competent Shopify developer. Finally, the book takes you through the Shopify Ajax API to gain the necessary skills needed to create a variety of dynamic features and content. By the end of this Shopify book, you'll be able to take on challenging projects to showcase your theme customization expertise to your future employer.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Shopify Explained
4
Section 2: Exploring Liquid Core
8
Section 3: Behind the Scenes
Appendix: Frequently Asked Questions

Chapter 1, Getting Started with Shopify

Question 1

What is the Partners program?

Answer

The Partners program is a platform created by Shopify that assembles people from all over the world. Through this platform, we can build new ecommerce stores for store owners, design themes, develop apps, refer new clients to Shopify, and most importantly, create a development store for us to practice. We can remind ourselves of this within the How to start? topic.

Question 2

How can we disable the password protection of the development type store?

Answer

We can disable our password protection store by clicking on the See store password button within the banner on the Themes section, located under the Online store section, or by selecting the Online store and subsequently clicking the Preferences inside the expanded dropdown. Once inside, we can easily remove the password protection on the regular store. However, since our store is in development mode, this option is currently...