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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

Improving the workflow with metafields

Metafields are global objects that allow us to store additional data inside our admin and output it to the storefront. As such, they are both powerful and necessary tools for creating complex designs with unique content.

Metafields consist of three mandatory elements:

  • The namespace, which we can use to group different metafields, so long as they share the same namespace.
  • The key attribute, which allows us to access a specific metafield.
  • A value where we can store an integer, string, or json_string data type.

We can also use a description field for the short description of a metafield, which is optional compared to the previous three.

Metafields, while powerful tools, had quite a disadvantage as they were only available through third-party apps. However, since the Shopify Unite 2021 event, the metafields functionality has become available natively inside the Shopify dashboard, and not only that, but it has received...