Adding this query string parameter will allow you to test a theme template on a page or product on a live site, without your customers seeing it. ?view=template-slug If you already have a question mark in the URL, maybe for a variantId, then use an ampersand instead. Where to find the “template-slug” In your theme…

If you are enjoying using Shopify’s metafields you’ve possibly come across the need to check the number of items in a reference list type by now, only to find the typical .size property returns null on products or collections. Buried in the paginate tag’s docs it mentions that for collection…

One of the most common Shopify SEO tips is to remove the | within: collection filter on the collection template, so that your product links concentrate the link juice to one URL. See the “Duplicate product pages” section of Moz’s guide. However a side affect of this is that on…

When a product goes out of stock on your Shopify store, you’ll probably have some code in your theme that shows a badge, to say the product is “Out of Stock” or “Sold Out”. This might raise the question from a customer of will it be back in stock and…

Like my article about linking products to other products using metafields in Shopify, this short article shows that we can use a similar approach to link to products from a blog post too. We can make use of the same product reference metafields definition, this time against the blog posts…

You may have order attributes on your Shopify orders, which have been added during the order process or afterwards using an app to let you staff add them in the admin area. Common uses are for delivery dates, wrapping options or status information beyond the standard Shopify ones. Once the…

If you are using the Shopify Markets functionality to make your store available to multiple currencies or languages. You are likely using locale aware URLs, which add something like this to your URLs:- yourdomain.com/ <- Without locale yourdomain.com/en-gb/ <- With locale When using these you need to ensure that you…

You’ve seen a grid of alternative colours for products on a product description page before and in fact I’ve described how to achieve this in Shopify using tags. This is one that instead of using the product variants, uses individual products per colour. Now you can also use Shopify’s new…

If you use AWS’s CloudFront as a straight forward CDN for a static website or simple app, and have an alternate domain set up for that site such as:- www.yourwebsite.com instead of yourwebsite.cloudfront.net You have likely had issues where some how the cloudfront.net URL for your site has escaped into…