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Cover reading “Undo the Break, Keep Your Work” beside a product page with a broken add-to-cart button and a theme library where the working theme is live again and marked Rolled back.
How to Recover a Broken Shopify Theme Without Losing More Changes
Roll back when customers cannot buy, then recover a broken Shopify theme by what broke: a code edit, Theme Editor settings, an app, or a change nobody can identify. Read more...
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How to Add a Size Chart to Print-on-Demand Products on Shopify
Popular POD blanks share size labels but not measurements. Compare four ways to show a size chart on Shopify, then add a per-blank popup with inches or centimeters by country... Read more...
Cover reading “MISSING COMPARE-AT PRICE” beside a Shopify product price showing $88.00 CAD with no crossed-out compare-at price.
Shopify Compare-at Price Not Showing: How to Find the Cause
A diagnostic path for Shopify sale prices without a crossed-out original price: separate theme problems from product data, then check the market's catalog pricing. Read more...
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Block Repeater for Shopify Horizon
Horizon's theme blocks cannot repeat themselves from a list. One custom block adds that ability: pick blog posts on each product, design one card in the theme editor, and the... Read more...
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Shopify Horizon: Hide a Block on Mobile or Desktop
Horizon has no setting to hide a block on one device. One custom theme block adds Mobile, Desktop, and All options, plus separate mobile padding, with no changes to Horizon's... Read more...
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Shopify Horizon: Add Custom Badges to Variant Buttons Without an App
Show a short badge on each Shopify Horizon variant button, such as Start here or Save 19%. You edit the text in a variant metafield, and the theme needs one... Read more...
Cover reading “SOLD OUT BUT IN STOCK?” beside a Shopify admin list showing 3 available for size M and a product page showing size M as sold out.
Shopify Product Shows Sold Out but Has Inventory: How to Find the Cause
A diagnostic path for Shopify products that show Sold out while admin lists stock: separate inventory data from theme problems, then check locations, bundles, and syncing apps. Read more...
Cover reading “THEME UPDATE LOST YOUR CHANGES?” beside Shopify theme library cards: an arrow leads from the previous theme to an updated copy marked “Theme added: code edits successfully included.”
Shopify Theme Update Lost Your Customizations? How to Find and Restore Them
When our Horizon update dropped ten custom text strings, the previous theme had them all. Here is how to find what an update left out and restore it. Read more...
Cover reading “SHOPIFY BFCM CHECKLIST” and “TEST BEFORE BLACK FRIDAY” beside an illustrated sold-out product page and a Pre-BFCM checks list with test order, discounts, last unit, and tracking marked complete.
Shopify BFCM Checklist 2026: What to Fix Before Black Friday
A technical pre-BFCM checklist for Shopify stores: run a test order, check discount combinations, sold-out behavior, and purchase tracking, and know what each failure means. Read more...
Cover reading “WHAT DOES A BUG FIX COST?” beside an illustrated Shopify product page with a broken Add to cart button and a bug fix quote card listing diagnosis, the change, and testing.
How Much Does It Cost to Fix a Shopify Bug?
What you actually pay for in a Shopify bug fix, how to compare hourly and fixed-price quotes, and how to avoid paying for the same bug twice. Read more...
Cover reading "COPY EVERY FILE / IMAGE URL AT ONCE" beside the Shopify Files list with four files selected and the Copy 4 URLs button highlighted in the bulk action bar.
How to Copy Multiple Shopify Image URLs at Once
Shopify gives you a Copy link button on every image and no way to copy forty at once. Here are the four practical routes to a batch of image URLs,... Read more...
Cover reading “ADD TO CART NOT WORKING?” beside an illustrated product page, simulated Console error, and empty cart.
Add to Cart Button Not Working on Shopify? Causes and Fixes
A practical way to find out whether your Shopify Add to cart issue comes from the product, browser, theme, app, or cart display—and how to verify the fix. Read more...
Why Shopify Search Is Slow cover showing a search window with an incomplete progress bar and product cards loading in stages.
Why Is Your Shopify Search Slow? Apps, Theme Conflicts, and What to Check
Shopify search often feels slow when a theme and search app respond together. Learn how to isolate that conflict and test images, animations, app scripts, requests, and result rendering. Read more...
Shopify Script Tags migration cover showing creation and updates failing on October 1, 2026 and script tags stopping on March 1, 2027, beside the headline “What breaks & how to migrate.”
Shopify Script Tags Are Deprecated: What Breaks and How to Migrate
Shopify is ending storefront ScriptTags. Learn what can break, how to check your store, choose the right replacement, and verify the migration. Read more...
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Shopify Horizon SVG Squashed in Safari 27? How We Fixed It
After upgrading to macOS 27 Golden Gate, we found wide SVG images compressed in Safari 27. Here is the Horizon Image block fix and the comparison that led us to... Read more...
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How We Fixed the Wrong Image After Hover in Shopify Horizon
Hovering during initial load or leaving a product-card carousel could leave the wrong image visible. We traced the one-step reset and changed its target. Read more...
Shopify market, language, and currency are three different concepts: a Canada market connects to English and French product pages, both priced at $273.00 CAD.
Shopify Markets, Languages, and Currencies: What's the Difference?
Changing a store's language does not automatically change its currency. Follow one demo product from USD in English to CAD in English and French to see how Shopify Markets connects... Read more...
Blog cover reading “Add Google Sign-In to Shopify Without an App,” beside Shopify Admin showing Google turned on and a customer account menu with Continue with Google.
How to Add Google Sign-In to Your Shopify Store Without an App
Shopify includes native Google sign-in for customer accounts with no additional app. See how to configure Google OAuth, complete the owner-only step, and test the customer experience. Read more...
Shopify Knowledge Base app listing showing free pricing and Shopify as developer, with “One FAQ Source for Customers and AI.”
How to Build a Shopify FAQ Page From Knowledge Base (No Code)
We keep every FAQ answer once in Shopify Knowledge Base and render it on our FAQ, product, and collection pages with no custom code. Read more...
Shopify Collections 2026 graphic showing rules, curated product picks, and variants combined in one collection.
How to Use Shopify's New Collections in 2026
Shopify's new collections model turns collections into reusable merchandising logic. Here is how merchants can combine rules, picks, exclusions, variants, other collections, and custom app sources. Read more...
Cover reading “Theme Asset 404s in GSC?” beside a Google Search Console Page not found (404) email and report listing an old Shopify theme asset URL.
Shopify Theme Asset 404 Errors in Google Search Console: Do You Need to Fix Them?
We received a Google Search Console 404 alert after a theme update. Here is how we verified that the missing Shopify asset was an old URL, not a live storefront... Read more...
Cover reading “Fix Product Missing From Shopify Search” beside two storefront search panels for “adjustable chair” with different category filters and results.
How We Fixed a Shopify Product Missing From Search
A client asked us to fix a published Shopify product that was missing from storefront search. Their store was using a legacy version of Kalles, and we traced the bug... Read more...
Shopify blog table of contents shown in desktop and mobile layouts without an app.
How We Added a Blog Table of Contents to Shopify Horizon Without an App
Add an automatic table of contents to a Shopify Horizon blog without an app. This complete theme block uses Liquid, responsive CSS, and a few lines of simple JavaScript, with... Read more...
Five Shopify bug fix options: AI and documentation, community help, product support, a freelancer, or a Shopify agency.
How to Fix a Shopify Bug: 5 Ways to Resolve Store Errors (And Which to Choose)
A Shopify bug can come from the platform, a theme, an app, or custom code. This guide compares five practical ways to diagnose and fix Shopify store errors based on... Read more...
Country-aware size chart in Shopify Horizon showing inches for the United States and centimeters for Germany.
Shopify Horizon: Add a Country-Aware Size Chart Without an App
Use Horizon’s built-in popup and Custom Liquid to create a country-aware size chart. Set default units by storefront country and let shoppers switch between CM and inches. Explore our live... Read more...
Shopify Horizon product galleries comparing all images with color-specific image groups when Black is selected.
Shopify Horizon: How to Show Multiple Images Per Color Without an App
Show a complete image group for each color in Shopify Horizon without an app. Explore the live demo, then follow the alt text setup and theme code tutorial. Read more...
Shopify Horizon theme update with Codex, showing a customization audit and Shopify's official theme update dialog.
How We Update Shopify Horizon Without Losing Custom Code
A behind-the-scenes look at how we updated our Shopify Horizon theme from 4.1.4 to 4.1.5 without losing custom code, Theme Editor settings, or a rollback path. Read more...
Cover reading “Make Your H1 Say More” beside Horizon code with the hidden store-name H1 commented out and a homepage showing a visible descriptive H1.
Why We Replaced Shopify Horizon’s Hidden Homepage H1
We replaced Shopify Horizon’s hidden store-name H1 with a visible, descriptive heading that better explains the homepage. Read more...
Cover reading “Country-Specific Notice at Checkout” beside a Shopify checkout showing a Brazil notice below the selected shipping method.
How to Show a Country-Specific Notice at Shopify Checkout Without Code
Show a country-specific message at Shopify checkout using a shipping rate—no code, apps, or Shopify Plus plan required. Read more...
Cover reading “Remove ‘Powered by Shopify’” beside the Shopify Theme content editor showing the Powered by Shopify field.
How to Remove “Powered by Shopify” Without Editing Code
A quick no-code method to remove the “Powered by Shopify” footer link from most Shopify themes using Shopify’s built-in Theme content editor. Read more...
Cover reading “Refresh Only the Stuck Part” beside the Shopify theme editor with the added refresh and discard buttons highlighted.
Shopify Theme Editor Refresh Controls: A Free Tampermonkey Userscript
Refresh only the storefront preview in theme editor — or discard unsaved changes, without reloading the entire Shopify Admin tab. Read more...
A collage of Shopify free theme previews grouped under Horizon and Dawn.
How to Choose a Free Shopify Theme Without Comparing Them All
Shopify’s free themes make more sense when you compare Horizon and Dawn first, then choose the design closest to your brand. Read more...

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