I've developed 100's of custom Shopify themes over the 10+ years that I've spent working as a Shopify theme development specialist. When I first started working with themes, they were in their infancy, they were very simple and there was…
I’ve been avoiding learning how to use Functions for a while now but as the Scripts deprecation date (August 13, 2024) looms closer, I’ve decided to invest some time to learn how to set things up. At first…
If you've worked on a Shopify store which needed to support multiple currencies, you'll of probably realised that there's only so far you can go with the platform. My main gripe with the multi-currency feature is that it didn't allow…
Shopify Policies are a fairly new feature within Shopify - they're simple, text-based pages which live under the path "shop.com/policies/". At this this time of writing, there's five Policies you can choose to use: Refund policy - shop.…
Update (4 Oct 2022) - This script was broken for a while as Shopify made some updates to the admin but I finally found some time to fix it so enjoy it once again! 😎 Shopify comes with a pretty good…
Lazy loading images is a pretty common practice nowadays, why load all images on each page if you can't garuantee your users will actually see them? To prevent your users from downloading every image, you can instead load all images…
When developing apps with Express, at some point you'll probably need to store user data across different requests, that's where sessions come in. I was using express-session when I came across an issue, I needed to store Shopify-api-node instances across…
I recently spent a couple of days building a tool in the form of a small web app Shopify Liquid REPL, it's similiar to the Bable REPL, but it takes Shopify Liquid (different to vanilla Liquid) and outputs the compiled…
After spending a fair amount of time spent tweaking existing "off-the-shelf" Shopify themes, I've come to realise one of my biggest annoyances with them (most of them anyways, some of them are genuinely beautifully coded.) It's not the…
I recently worked on a Shopify theme project where images uploaded to the products on this store were all quite large in height compared to their width, a grid of the products looks something like this: Shopify will generate a…
Responsive web development can be tricky at the best of times, but even more so if the site in question has to support any version of Internet Explorer below version 9 (most of the time it's just IE 8 you…
If you're an advocate of OOCSS (Oriented CSS) then you have most likely worked with Sass before as it makes development of OOCSS a lot more efficient. Here's a simple example of an object (stolen / slightly modified from inuit.css)…
Ever since I started out as a front-end developer I've worked on a PC running Windows, it's served me well over the years, despite all the issues that most people in this industry seem to have with the Windows operating…
"How is this done again?", those five words I'm noticing I'm asking myself more and more. A lot of the time when I'm working on a project I'll have to accomplish a specific task (which I have done…
If you haven't heard of Grunt (if so, where have you been hiding?), it's a task runner powered by JavaScript and Node.js, don't worry, you don't have to be a JavaScript / Node.js developer to use Grunt (just like…