A presentation at Wordpress Meetup in in Bristol, UK by Lucy Sloss
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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
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Shopify Sorry
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Shopify
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Shopify
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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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Becoming a Shopify Partner
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Create new stores for clients
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Design themes
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Develop Apps
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Hand off development stores to clients
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Earn income from referrals
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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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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
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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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Apps
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You don’t have to worry about what version
of Wordpress the store has running or
internal server bugs.
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Any communication between your app and
the client’s store can be kept to a minimum.
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You can use any language.
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Most Apps have a monthly subscription.
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What I like about Shopify
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Money! (Earning an income from referrals)
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Hosting and secure SSL
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Email Newsletters
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Webinars
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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
for free. You
can too.