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Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

By : Djordjevic
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Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

4.7 (17)
By: 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)
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Section 1: Shopify Explained
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Section 2: Exploring Liquid Core
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Section 3: Behind the Scenes
Appendix: Frequently Asked Questions

Enhancing the product media gallery

In the previous exercise, we learned how to output the image elements needed to output the necessary elements to create a basic product gallery that contains only images. In the following project, we will learn how to use media objects and filters to create a multifunctional gallery that will support images, 3D models, and internal videos hosted on Shopify. Additionally, we will also embed external video links to some of the most popular video platforms, Vimeo and YouTube, and autogenerate the appropriate video player for both.

Most of the newest themes today already contain a product media gallery. However, many stores still use outdated theme files, so it is essential to know how to create the feature from scratch.

Let's start by navigating to the Product Gallery page we created in the previous Building a product gallery subsection, located under the Working with HTML and URL filters section, and revise the previously included code to...

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