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Published inOct 2021
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Ivan Djordjevic
Ivan Djordjevic
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Ivan Djordjevic

Ivan Djordjevic comes from the small town of Prokuplje, Serbia. As a self-taught developer, he spent the first few years working on different projects, but only when he came in contact with Shopify and learned about Liquid that he found himself. In 2016, Ivan joined Shopify Experts under HeyCarson, where he moved to the lead developer position after a few months. Since joining the Shopify family, Ivan found his passion in sharing his knowledge with other developers and guiding them on their way to becoming a Shopify Expert.
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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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Published in: Oct 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801813969

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Ivan Djordjevic

Ivan Djordjevic comes from the small town of Prokuplje, Serbia. As a self-taught developer, he spent the first few years working on different projects, but only when he came in contact with Shopify and learned about Liquid that he found himself. In 2016, Ivan joined Shopify Experts under HeyCarson, where he moved to the lead developer position after a few months. Since joining the Shopify family, Ivan found his passion in sharing his knowledge with other developers and guiding them on their way to becoming a Shopify Expert.
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