Hi everyone,
Welcome back to your weekly dose of Shopify knowledge - it's Shopify Weekly!
This week, we're diving into the latest Shopify changelog updates, uncovering strategies to discreetly offer products while keeping them buyable, and exploring seamless ways to sync your Shopify email subscribers with Klaviyo for enhanced marketing campaigns. We'll also share some expert tips on optimizing product pages, personalizing the customer experience, and boosting your store's visibility through Google Customer Reviews.
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1. Latest API and Shopify-related updates
Shopify has not released many new upgrades this week in comparison to prior weeks. You can follow these links to learn about the latest updates to Shopify Flow, another POS-related update, and four API updates, three of which can affect the apps you are developing:
- Flow: Find workflow runs starting from Admin “More actions” menus
- Cash tracking across locations in POS
- Refunding orders with multiple shipping lines returns accurate data
- Added synchronous Parameter to productDelete Mutation and Introduced ProductDeleteOperation Object for Asynchronous Deletion Tracking
- Breaking changes to GraphQL product duplicate APIs in version 2024-10
- Breaking changes in several ProductVariant related mutations in version 2024-10
2. What’s new for developers at the Shopify Summit 2024?
This video is about Shopify Editions 2024, a developer conference by Shopify. In the video, Shopify VP of Product, Glen Coates, talks about what's new for developers, including the new features and updates to the Shopify platform.
Shopify announced a new addition to their platform called Markets. This will allow merchants to configure and view all of the different contextual behaviors of Shopify across B2B, across regions, and now across retail in one place. In addition, Shopify programmers introduced us to new technologies related to GraphQL, Hydrogen visual editor, Webhooks, Checkout UI extension…
3. How to sync Shopify email subscribers to a Klaviyo list? (non-tech)
This is an article about syncing Shopify email subscribers to a Klaviyo list. It discusses what Klaviyo is and how it integrates with Shopify. It also details steps to sync Shopify subscribers. Best practices for subscriber collection are covered. Key points include that subscribers are synced when they checkout and that the subscribe box should be unchecked by default.
👉 Check out the full article here
4. CSS height:auto; can be used in animation
This video is about three new CSS features that can be used to improve animations and transitions. Kyle introduces the video by explaining that animating things as soon as they appear can be difficult with older versions of CSS, often requiring JavaScript.
Overall, these three new CSS features make it easier to create more complex and visually appealing animations and transitions. While browser support is not yet universal, these features can be used as progressive enhancements, meaning that they will still work in older browsers, but with less functionality.
5. How to hide a product on Shopify but keep it buyable?
This is an article by Biscuits about hiding a product on Shopify but keeping it buyable. It discusses hiding a product from search engines and making it so the buy button is not visible. This can be useful for products that are components of a bundle and shouldn’t be sold separately. The article walks you through creating a metafield to hide the product. You can also create a new template to remove the buy button.
👉 Check out the full article here
6. How to integrate Google Customer Reviews in Shopify?
Joshua's article about integrating Google Customer Reviews with Shopify. He discusses what Google Customer Reviews is and why a business would want to use it. It also details how to set it up on Shopify. Some of the important points from this article are that Google Customer Reviews can increase social proof and trust in a business and that it can be integrated with other Shopify apps.
👉 Check out the full article here
7. How can the product page for the Dawn theme just display images of the selected variant?
The Prompted's video is about filtering product images in Shopify stores so that only the images relevant to the selected variant are shown on the product page. The speaker introduces a customization that he has created and includes a fix so that it's compatible with versions 14 and 15 of Dawn and the other free Shopify themes. Please make sure to back up your theme before making any changes to the code.
8. How to Get Database Value in Shopify Theme App Extension using App Proxy?
This blog post from MageComp outlines steps on how to get database value in the Shopify theme app extension using App Proxy. It details the creation of an app.proxyapi file within the app folder. The code written in this file utilizes the PrismaClient library to connect to the database. It then fetches product data from a specific shop using the shop identifier. Finally, the data is returned as JSON.
👉 Check out the full article here
9. How To Add Product Reviews In Shopify? (non-tech)
This video is about adding product reviews to a Shopify store for free using an app called Product Reviews app UGC Q&A. Overall, it seems like a great option for Shopify store owners who want to add product reviews to their store for free.
The video walks you through the steps of installing and setting up the app, including customizing the look and feel of the widgets, adding question and answer widgets, and setting up automated emails to collect reviews.
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