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If you're doing some self backups you'll suddenly have the need to grab a list of all the files you've uploaded to the Shopify Admin page at /admin/settings/files. Here's a quick JavaScript snippet to export a list of those files.
I have to come clean and admit the title of this post is pure clickbait since there's no current way to change the 100 variant limit. You can however take two (or three, four, etc) products and merge them together to form a new magical giant product.
There's going to be times when you want to show a list of the most recents articles (posts) from all your Shopify Blogs combined - not just pulling the latest ones from a single Blog. Since I saw the question pop up on the ecommerce forums again, I grabbed a vodka and wrote some code.
If you're one of 275,000+ Shopify stores now enjoying SSL you may want to celebrate that by throwing a logo or banner on the site. If you don't have a logo handy to use I've put together a quick one here, free to download and use on any Shopify storefront.
There's plenty of Shopify ecommerce stores out there that only have a few products, but those products have many variants. The drawback to this approach is that collection pages can look a little sparse but let's fix that with some simple theme edits.
When optimising an ecommerce store for greater speed, images can provide a fun and interesting challenge. Merchants wanting image optimisations have to balance the management ease vs finer control.
This could be the smallest blog post I ever do..
Some merchants like to track and show publicly the amount of items sold on a product page, not just the amount left in stock. This is not something that Shopify does by default but with the use of the Mighty Metafield, it's a simple addition.
Shopify does lots of things well, and one thing in particular is the ability to scale. To give the engineers a level of control there's some limits on certain things - page size being one.