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Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

By : Ivan Djordjevic
Book Image

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 6, Configuring the Theme Settings

Question 1

What are the two types of input settings?

Answer

The first set of settings is called basic input types, and it consists of six types of settings, which allow us to output basic HTML input elements through which we can dynamically output certain content. The second set of settings, otherwise called specialized settings, allows us to generate specialized selector type fields to access various objects through the store and output their content using their attributes. We can remind ourselves of the basic and specialized input types of settings by visiting the Basic input types and Specialized input settings sections in Chapter 6, Configuring the Theme Settings.

Question 2

What's the issue that will cause an error with the following piece of code?

{
  "type": "text",
  "id": "header_announcement",
  "label": "Text",
}

Answer...