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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

Building product accordions

In the following project, we will be learning about the string and array filters by working with and creating the product accordions feature. But, before we proceed with the project, what exactly do string and array filters do?

String filters are methods that allow us to manipulate the output of Liquid code or the variable itself as long as the variable is a string type, whereas array filters allow us to manipulate the output of arrays.

For this project, we will first find one product with a lengthy description. To save some time, we already included the necessary description in the Black Armchairs product that we previously imported from the product-data.csv file in Chapter 3, Diving into Liquid Core with Tags.

Figure 5.4 – Example of a long product description

As we can see from the previous screenshot, having a lengthy product description can be quite inefficient as it takes up a lot of space. While we can easily...

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