Shopify Guides and Tutorials
Guides and tutorials for Shopify store owners: choosing a theme and apps, editing your theme's code, hiring help, and keeping up with Shopify's changes.
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Custom Shopify Stores in 2026: Hire a Shopify Designer, Not a Developer
If you want a custom looking Shopify store, you don't need a developer to code a theme from a Figma design. Hire a designer who specializes in Shopify. They can…
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How to Hire a Freelance Shopify Developer (2026)
Where to find a freelance Shopify developer in 2026. ShopExperts (previously HeyCarson), Storetasker, Upwork, Fiverr and the Shopify Partner Directory compared…
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The Next Generation of Shopify Themes — Liquid Templates, Blocks and Partials
Shopify has announced a new way to build themes, currently in developer preview. Templates go back to being Liquid files instead of JSON, pages are built from a…
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Find Every Code Change in Your Shopify Theme Using Claude
Point Claude at two folders — your modified theme, and a clean copy of the same theme version — and it will generate an HTML report listing every customization…
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The Best Free Shopify Themes? (2026 update)
If you're browsing the Shopify theme store right now trying to pick a free theme, there's something you need to understand first. There are 23 free themes…
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How Shopify Theme Updates Work — What Happens to Your Custom Code?
If your code is in its own separate file, it will copy across to the updated theme. If you edited an existing theme file, your changes will probably be…
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I'm back - new videos, new sections, life update & AI thoughts
Hey guys, it’s been a while! Thought I’d say hello and send out some things you might have missed. You might have an FAQ section on your product pages, but it’s…
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Shopify DIY: I moved to Horizon, Shopify news, recent videos & more
Hey everyone, I hope you had a great summer! I haven’t posted in a while, so this one is packed. Let’s get into it. Thought I’d share my experience. Here is the…
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Using Horizon Theme Blocks in Dawn
Today I realized you can simply take Horizon's generic wrapper section, and install it to Dawn. This will allow you to: use Horizon's AI Block Generator in Dawn…
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Shopify DIY: Horizon v2 is out + tips and Q&A
Hello from rainy Taiwan! I’m getting lots of replies and questions recently, so I’ll try a Q&A section to answer everything in one go, plus I have some other…
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Shopify Editions continued - my take on other updates
My last two posts have been focused on Horizon and theme blocks. Today, I’ll recap some other updates you should know about. Let’s go! You can now see…
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Will Other Shopify Themes Get the New Horizon Features?
In the days following Shopify Editions, many questions arose: Will paid themes be getting Theme Blocks? Will Dawn be getting Theme Blocks? Can you automatically…
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Goodbye Dawn! Shopify Launches Horizon Theme at Shopify Editions Summer ‘25
A few days ago, Shopify had its biannual Shopify Editions event. As usual, there are a bunch of updates across different aspects of Shopify, but as you know…
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Shopify News: ChatGPT Integration, the future of SEO & more
Hey Shopify DIYers, These are interesting times, so I thought I’d write a ‘Shopify news’ post. I used to do these monthly, then I stopped. I think I’ll just…
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How to add the FAQ Schema in Shopify
In my last post, I explained an easy way to look for questions about your niche. Today, I want to show you how to format your blog posts for SEO, especially…