Issue 249 - ChatGPT Ads Go Live, the Admin's New Look, and ShopQuest India
Advanced theme features with Shopify Functions (full guide)
Bosidev's full guide to using Shopify Functions to build advanced theme features. Goes past basic usage into practical patterns developers can apply directly. Solid for Shopify Plus-focused app and theme work.
By Bosidev
Shop Quest 2026: Inside India's Shopify Developer Event
Prakhar Shrivastava of FoxSell joins Karl and Taylor to talk about Shop Quest, the Shopify community event he and his team run in Bengaluru, and to prep Taylor for his first trip to India. Along the way Prakhar breaks down India's Shopify ecosystem, from the app companies pulling serious revenue to the agencies quietly white-labeling builds for Platinum partners in the US and Europe, and makes the case for why the Shopify partner community needs its own events at all.
By Liquid Weekly
ChatGPT Ads are live for Shopify - OpenAI's first commerce partner
Harley Finkelstein announced ChatGPT Ads for Shopify are live, with Shopify named OpenAI's first commerce partner. Ads pull directly from Shopify Catalog, so merchant products are already available, and merchants set their own campaigns. This is a real signal that agentic commerce is moving from demos to paid distribution - relevant for merchants deciding where ad spend and product data strategy go next.
By Harley Finkelstein
Create and delete dev stores in Shopify CLI
Shopify CLI 4.8 adds shopify store commands to create and manage dev stores directly from the terminal or a coding agent. Faster local development loops without clicking through the admin to spin up dev stores.
By Shopify
New changes rolling out to Shopify Events
Kinngh flags that new changes are rolling out to Shopify Events, matching the changelog entry on the same topic. Events - Shopify's next-gen, field-level replacement for fixed webhook topics - are getting updated payloads and subscription config. Worth watching if you maintain an app on webhooks, since this is the direction the platform is migrating toward.
By kinngh
Shopify Sidekick Extensions explained in 10 minutes
Coding with Jan explains Shopify Sidekick extensions in a tight 10-minute walkthrough. Useful for developers evaluating how to extend Sidekick and where it fits in the agentic tooling roadmap.
By Coding with Jan
Prepare your app for the Shopify admin's new look
Starting September 15, 2026, the Shopify admin has a new look, rolling out progressively to merchants. Apps using Admin UI extensions and App Home UI extensions pick up the new styles automatically; apps that render their own interface in App Home keep current styles until they move to Polaris 2.0. The new look brings changes to color, type, spacing and icons, with search, notifications and the store picker moving into a side nav.
By Shopify
Filter Catalog search results by media type
The Shopify Catalog API now returns video and 3D model media on products that have it, and supports filtering search results by media type. You can request only products with video or 3D model assets, and matching products return links to those assets in the same response. The filter is optional so existing queries keep working. Useful for AI-driven and media-forward storefront experiences.
By Shopify
Figma to Shopify with Claude Code + MCP
Saad Saif demos going from a Figma design to a working Shopify site using Claude Code and MCP for AI Shopify development. A concrete AI-assisted build workflow with actual tooling.
By Saad Saif
