Shopify Dude
Shopify answers, setup guides, troubleshooting checklists, release explainers, and common setup misunderstandings.
A candid Shopify operator post about ecommerce tactics that were copied until they became corny: spin wheels, scratch-card discounts, exit popups, fake urgency, recent-sales bubbles, chatbots, NFTs, and AI without data discipline.
A five-year look at Shopify Online Store 2.0 as both a theme-editing fix and a performance reset: what Dawn improved, what OS 2.0 changed, and what still went wrong.
A Shopify operator post about why reports and dashboards do not help unless the team agrees what the numbers mean, which decisions they should drive, and who owns the follow-up.
A grounded look at what ecommerce felt like before hosted platforms became normal: custom carts, awkward admin tools, payment setup friction, design limits, and why Shopify felt different without pretending it solved everything.
A practical Shopify SME guide to what really makes a store work: offer, product, trust, merchandising, operations, traffic, retention, and the technology that supports them.
A practical introduction to Shopify Liquid: what it does, where it lives in a theme, how objects, tags, filters, sections, snippets, and schema fit together, and what not to hack.
A plain-English guide to when to use Shopify metafields, when to use metaobjects, and how structured data affects product pages, filters, and AI readiness.
A plain-English explanation of agentic commerce for Shopify, including Shopify Catalog, Universal Commerce Protocol, product data readiness, and what merchants should do now.