If you’ve had to migrate a Magento 1 site to Shopify you may have come across Excelify as an option. It’s the option I took recently, even though it was a Shopify Plus site and we therefore had access to the Transporter App I had a bitch of a time trying to install the transporter …
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You’d be forgiven for thinking you couldn’t as the docs only mention Product meta and Shop meta. You can add metadata to an existing order that was created through the normal order flow (or an admin order) and not the API. This Stackoverflow answer pointed me in the right direction. My example is in PHP …
Post Affiliate Pro have a plugin for Shopify and a handy guide here -> https://www.postaffiliatepro.com/integration-methods/integration/shopify/ There are a few issues with their plugin though. Firstly there’s no option to include a Campaign ID, so your clicks will default back the default campaign. Not too much of a problem if you don’t have any commissions on …
The Shopify documentation is very thorough. That said, however extensive documentation is, there is always room for confusion. Let’s take the set up for ThemeKit. You’ve created your private app in both your development site in your Shopify partners account, and also the live site What issues might confuse you. Let’s work through them; Theme …
Note: This applies to themes built on Timber, it may not work on your theme. This was easy to fix, but only because user Benecke who opened an issue on GitHub was good enough to come back later and update what he did to actually fix the issue. The only thing worse than not doing …
To my chagrin, I cannot now find the post where I got this code – unknown generous developer, I apologise. This kind of illustrates a point though – I got lucky finding that post. If you are reading this, you got lucky finding this post. In terms of organisation, curation and outright findability, Shopify University …
If you’ve spent any time developing WordPress themes you’ll more than likely have come across Advanced Custom Fields by Ellion Condon. Being a hater of content builder plugins I remember being resistant to it when I was first shown it by another developer. In the end I bought the Pro licence and I’ve used it …
A short post that will hopefully be helpful to somebody – I’ve had to write this because Shopify have an annoying policy of closing old forum threads when it’d be more useful to keep them open and have them updated. This thread; https://ecommerce.shopify.com/c/shopify-apis-and-technology/t/how-do-i-update-the-cart-counter-immediately-via-ajax-268966 Has an outdated solution for the problem. Problem If you enable the …
This is a good article for store owners on the basics of creating a nested menu in the Shopify backend; https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/sell-online/online-store/menus-and-links/drop-down-menus WordPress site owners and developers will recognise this setup immediately. Draggable/droppable menus were introduced into WordPress as one of the flagship features of WordPress 3 in 2010. As always the Shopify documentation is good – …
One of the issues when working with an system is that visual redesigns tend to render ‘How To’ blog posts obsolete pretty quickly. Hopefully this on won’t stay obsolete too long. If you are trying to work out how to add a custom menu link to a Shopify menu and are getting frustrated, chances are …