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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 6: Configuring the Theme Settings

In previous chapters, we have been learning about Shopify as a platform, familiarizing ourselves with Liquid basics, and using the Liquid core to create various features on the storefront. However, unless the store owners are developers, they will not have much control over any features we create for them.

In this chapter, we will be learning how we can use JSON to create settings that are accessible through the theme editor, which will allow the store owners to easily customize the theme without making the code adjustments throughout the theme. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Exploring JSON settings
  • Learning about the input setting attributes
  • Basic and specialized input types
  • Organizing the theme editor
  • Glancing at the deprecated settings

By the time we complete this chapter, we will have gained a deeper understanding of the importance of JSON, and how we can use it to create theme settings...