Shopify Expert developer based out of Canada & Singapore specializing in building unique e-commerce experiences for brands of all sizes.

Shopify Liquid String Interpolation

While building my Shopify app Wait.li I discovered that Shopify’s Liquid has no built in interpolation function / filter. I am storing user settings in Shopify metafields, and one setting is a string that is displayed on the Shopify storefront. This string has the possibility of including other Liquid variables (assigned previously on the page). Attempt 1: My metafield was string that contains the following value (notice the curly brackets):

Double-Blocked Sections in Shopify

A while back I was building out a slider component on a client’s Shopify store. In general, sliders/carousels are dead simple once you get the gist of it, but the challenge with this specific slider was that the client wanted two different ‘sides’ of the carousel, and wanted to be able to edit each. Basically, both the 3⁄4 image (left) and the 1⁄4 image (right) are independent sliders, but edited from within the same Shopify section.