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Shopify Themes

Shopify Themes enable merchants to easily manage the look and feel of their online stores. Developers use Shopify’s open-source Liquid templating language to build and customize themes.

Getting started with Shopify Themes

Requirements

You’ll need to know the basics of writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Shopify is a hosted service, so you’ll need an internet connection in order to upload, preview, and test your theme.
If you don’t already have one, you’ll need to create a Shopify partner account.
If you don’t already have one, you’ll need to create a development store to test your theme.
To build themes using the new online store design experience, you’ll need to activate the new online store design experience developer preview on a development store.

References

Liquid reference

Read the complete reference to Shopify’s Liquid template language

Shopify Theme file structure

Learn about the files that make up a Shopify theme

Shopify Theme templates

Learn about the different types of templates that you can use to build themes

Shopify Theme sections

Learn about sections, reusable modules of content that can be customized and re-ordered by users of the theme

Shopify Theme settings

Read the complete reference for Shopify Theme configuration settings

Developer changelog

Stay up to date with recent changes to Shopify Themes on the developer changelog

Tools

ThemeKit

A command-line tool for building Shopify themes

Theme Check

A command-line based linter for themes. Also offered as an official Visual Studio Code extension.

Liquid Code Examples

Build and customize themes faster with component-based Liquid examples

Shopify Cheat Sheet

Explore an interactive reference guide to the Liquid language

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