Applying your Wordpress skills to Shopify

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Shopify Applying your Wordpress Skills to Shopify By Lucy Sloss Studio Mothership studiomothership.com

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Shopify About me

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Shopify Sorry

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Shopify Wait, isn’t this a Wordpress Meetup?

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Shopify What is Shopify? • Built specifically for Commerce • Hosted platform • SSL Certificate • Unlimited bandwidth • Has it’s own payment gateway • POS

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Shopify Who uses Shopify

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Shopify Where did I start?

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Shopify Becoming a Shopify Partner • Create new stores for clients • Design themes • Develop Apps • Hand off development stores to clients • Earn income from referrals
• Access to Partner Training Camp

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Shopify Webinars https://www.shopify.co.uk/partners/blog/topics/webinars

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Shopify Shopify as a Business • A lot of resources • Fairly good documentation • A lot more sales driven • Not open source like Wordpress • Generally less of a community spirit online

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Shopify Wordpress Pricing Hosting with 34SP.com

£9.95 monthly WooCommerce
Free* Paypal Express Checkout 3.4% + 20p (based on up to £1,500 monthly sales)

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Shopify Shopify Pricing Monthly cost $29 (about £22) - $299 (about £225) Transactions Paypal Express Checkout 3.4% + 20p + 2% Shopify fee (based on up to £1,500 monthly sales) Shopify Payments 2.2% + 20p

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Shopify Content Management
in Shopify

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Shopify Shopify/Wordpress Wordpress Shopify Pages Pages Posts Articles Themes Child Themes Themes N/A Categories Collections Plugins Apps Products (with Woocommerce) Custom Post Types Products

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Shopify Customiser

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Shopify

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Shopify Developing Shopify Themes

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Shopify Liquid Wordpress Shopify

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Shopify Timber (Twig) Twig Liquid

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Shopify Liquid Cheat Sheet https://www.shopify.co.uk/partners/shopify-cheat-sheet

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Shopify

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Shopify Slate

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Shopify Slate • Dependency management via Webpack • ES6+ support via Babel • Local development asset server • Local SASS compilation • Theme Linting • Starter Themes • Deploy Environments • Safe watch and deploy • Asset minification • Configuration via slate.config.js

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Shopify Slate https://shopify.github.io/slate/

https://github.com/Shopify/slate/wiki

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Shopify Shopify Apps

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Shopify Apps • App code will never run on a client’s server. • Host on platforms such as Heroku , Digital Ocean or AWS Free Tier

• Shopify is a central platform that provides an interface for Apps via an HTTP-based API .

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Shopify Apps • You don’t have to worry about what version of Wordpress the store has running or internal server bugs.
• Any communication between your app and the client’s store can be kept to a minimum. • You can use any language. • Most Apps have a monthly subscription.

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Shopify What I like about Shopify • Money! (Earning an income from referrals) • Hosting and secure SSL
• Email Newsletters • Webinars • Liquid

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Shopify What I like about Shopify • Standardised and familiar checkout • Language files for multi-lingual themes • Mobile App • Scalability & POS options

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Shopify

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Shopify What I dislike about Shopify • Email Newsletters • Permalinks aren’t as flexible as Wordpress • Downtime on servers • No in-built Custom Fields • Backups are not included

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Shopify What I discovered   about Shopify • Installing Apps can change your theme code • A lot of Apps are at an added cost • Not all features are supported in all countries.

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Shopify Conclusion • Shopify is great for e-commerce • I still love Wordpress! • Working with new platforms improves your skills • Say YES to projects out of your comfort zone!

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Shopify Thanks for listening!

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Shopify Resources https://www.shopify.com/partners/blog/introduction-to- shopify-theming-for-wordpress-theme-developers

https://www.shopify.co.uk/partners/blog/topics/ webinars

https://shopify.github.io/slate/

https://github.com/Shopify/slate/wiki

https://www.shopify.co.uk/partners/shopify-cheat-sheet

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