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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 7, Working with Static and Dynamic Sections

Question 1

What is the main difference between the static and dynamic sections?

Answer

The main difference between the static and dynamic sections is that we can only add the dynamic section to the JSON templates and the home page using the Add section button inside the theme editor. Additionally, we can repeat this any number of times with different content.

On the other hand, the static section needs to be included manually inside a theme template using the section tag. We can include the same static section inside multiple templates. However, each section will display the same content as we can only have one instance of a static section. We can remind ourselves of static and dynamic sections by visiting the Static versus dynamic sections section.

Question 2

What object can we use to access the block input value? Write some code that will allow us to access the specific blocks module input value.

Answer

We...