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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

Getting things ready

Before we can proceed, we will need to create some product and collection pages first, which we will be using throughout the following exercises.

Creating the product page

Generally, creating a page or a product page is a straightforward and intuitive process:

  1. We can start by navigating to the Products section in our sidebar and clicking the Add products button, automatically redirecting us to the page to define our product name, description, image, price, and other parameters. We will not go into too many details on managing a product. However, if you would like to read more about this topic, refer to https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/add-update-products.
  2. To avoid creating a significant number of products manually that we will require later, we will use already created products that we can find on GitHub. We have created a .csv file that allows us to easily create many products for our development store for this specific purpose. The...