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Shopify Theme Customization with Liquid

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801813969
Pages 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Ivan Djordjevic Ivan Djordjevic
Profile icon Ivan Djordjevic

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Shopify Explained
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Shopify 3. Chapter 2: The Basic Flow of Liquid 4. Section 2: Exploring Liquid Core
5. Chapter 3: Diving into Liquid Core with Tags 6. Chapter 4: Diving into Liquid Core with Objects 7. Chapter 5: Diving into Liquid Core with Filters 8. Section 3: Behind the Scenes
9. Chapter 6: Configuring the Theme Settings 10. Chapter 7: Working with Static and Dynamic Sections 11. Chapter 8: Exploring the Shopify Ajax API 12. Assessments 13. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Frequently Asked Questions

Content and special objects

Previously, we learned how to use global objects to output the data from our admin on our templates and section files. Now, it is time to learn how to use content objects to output the content of template and sections files, as well as any other assets that are necessary for the Shopify store to operate. We can divide the content objects into three separate groups: content_for_header, content_for_index, and content_for_layout.

All three types of content objects have descriptive names that tell us what they do. However, to ensure that we fully understand their importance, we will provide a small explanation for each.

The content_for_header object

content_for_header is a mandatory object located inside the theme.liquid layout file – more specifically, inside the HTML <head> tag:

{{ content_for_header }}

The whole purpose of this object is to load all the scripts that Shopify requires into the document's header dynamically....

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