Issue 206 - Built for Shopify apps get priority visibility across the Shopify App Store

Built for Shopify apps get priority visibility across the Shopify App Store

Built for Shopify (BFS) apps are now featured more prominently across key App Store surfaces, helping merchants discover them faster.

By Shopify

Shopify and OpenAI bring commerce to ChatGPT

Shopify merchants will be able to sell directly through ChatGPT conversations—no links or redirects, just seamless commerce

By Shopify

Build a Shopify Theme From Scratch | Full Course

In module 3, we have created a basic level of theme from scratch, we created homepage liquid based and JSON based, collection page with pagination, product page with custom variant selector, cart drawer with update and delete item, mega menu. We covered web components, CART API and section rendering API while building real world projects.

By Saad Saif

An RFC for standardized Shopify events

Some excitement in the Shopify Dev space today with an RFC for standardized Shopify events. Think of things like viewing products, search, and what we're all really interested in - interacting with the cart!

By Taylor Page

You Can Create Objects in Shopify?

Why did no-one tell me you can create objects in shopify? (thanks to David Warrington - for this)

By Andy Russell

A Variant Limit of 2048 is Great - But Be Aware

Shopifys introduction to a variant limit of 2048 per product is all fun and games - but Shopify devevelopers have to be aware! 🤓 Finally Shopify is increasing its variant limit for products from 100 to 2048 variants. And therefore merchants have the ability to work more efficient when creating and maintaining products and its variants. But this causes problems behind the curtains.

By Bastian Fritsch

Legacy custom apps can’t be created after January 1, 2026

Starting January 1, 2026, you can no longer create new custom apps in the Shopify admin. This affects merchants and developers who create custom apps directly from the admin.

By Shopify

Show Only Selected Multiple Variant Images on Shopify Concept Theme

Are you struggling with variant images showing all colors at once on your Shopify store? This tutorial shows you how to fix the common variant image display issue on the Concept theme, where only the first image changes when selecting different color options.

By Craftshift

My Washing Machine Refreshed My Thinking on Software Effort Estimation

Yes, we can (and must) gather requirements as best we can, but at some point we’ll end up on the ground and battling dozens of blockers we didn’t expect to hit, even when we thought the territory looked very familiar and a 10 minute job turns into 4 hours.

By Chris Horsley