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I'm one of those web devs that likes to make both my source code and the output look at pretty as possible. Pretty output to me is with as much whitespace and bloat removed so a recent update to Liquid makes this simple! Let's explore it.
A great way to showcase your press appearances is with a social proof page showing those publications you're featured in. Dedicated blogs make it easy to feature collections of publications, so let's explore how.
If you've been paying attention to the Shopify help docs you might have noticed that there's a magical new section in the url filters page. This new section talks about how you can create custom images sizes in expect pixel width and height (plus pixel density and cropping)! Let's explore it.
The Shopify team working within the Admin made some very nice updates to the way that shipping rates are handled and shown. Unfortunately for ShopifyFD users, that killed off the copy and paste feature, but now it's back.
MailChimp data driven campaigns can be automatically filled with content pulled directly from your RSS feed. This is pretty darn cool, but a common issue for Shopify custom feeds is that the image does not appear - let's fix that.
A common question that pops up from Shopify Merchants is how can the article ID be removed from the Article URL. The answer is super simple (and built in!) thanks to recent update.
Offsite backup, cloning and copying your Shopify store might prove an interesting challenge, but the API does give you all the tools you need to do cover the important things. Let's explore some free options along with any apps that might be about.
Most people that need to know the total stock value are already likely to be using a third party Inventory Management System, ERP (or similar). If you want to know what your total stock value is you can grab that info via the API - let's look how.
When wanting to view Shopify collections with varied amounts of products per page (aka, pagination) the usual method involves creating a series of alternate templates. Let's explore an idea that ditches the multiples, and just uses one.