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- February 6th, 2026CheckoutGuides
Rebuilding Checkout Customizations With Checkout UI Extensions
How checkout UI extensions actually work: targets, the checkout editor, and rebuilding banners, custom fields, and trust content the upgrade-safe way.
- February 3rd, 2026CheckoutGuides
Checkout.liquid Is Gone: A Field Guide to Shopify Checkout Extensibility
Every checkout.liquid sunset date has passed except the Scripts deadline. Where each old customization goes now: extensions, pixels, and Functions.
- January 27th, 2026FunctionsGuides
What Shopify Functions Can Actually Do (and When You Need a Developer)
A plain-English map of every Shopify Functions API, what each one really does, and the honest answer to whether you need a custom app built.
- January 20th, 2026FunctionsCheckout
Migrating from Shopify Scripts to Checkout Functions: a practical guide
Shopify Scripts retires June 30, 2026. How to move discount, shipping, and payment logic to Functions, with a map from each Script type to its replacement.
- January 14th, 2026Functions
Do Shopify Functions Require Shopify Plus?
A clear answer on whether you need Shopify Plus to use Shopify Functions, and what changes now that Scripts (which was Plus-only) retires on June 30, 2026.
- January 9th, 2026FunctionsCheckout
Shopify Scripts vs Shopify Functions: What Changed and Why It Is Better
A plain comparison of Shopify Scripts and Functions: what carries over, what changes, and why the forced move is an upgrade, not just a rewrite.
- January 6th, 2026Functions
How to Tell If Your Store Still Uses Shopify Scripts
A two-minute check to see whether your Shopify store relies on Scripts, which stop working on June 30, 2026, plus what to do if you find any.
- December 23rd, 2025AIPerformance
Lighthouse's New Agentic Browsing Score, and What It Means for Shopify
Google added an agentic browsing category to Lighthouse, and it does not score your schema. What it measures and what a Shopify store can do about it.
- December 19th, 2025AISEO
Shopify Agentic Commerce: The Complete Guide for 2026
What agentic commerce means for Shopify merchants, and how to make your store readable and recommendable by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google.
- December 16th, 2025AIAnalytics
Measuring AI Agent Traffic to Your Shopify Store
AI agents are visiting your store, but standard analytics hides them. Here is how to actually measure agent traffic and what to do with the numbers.
- December 12th, 2025AIAgentic commerce
MCP for Shopify Stores: What It Is and Why It Matters
MCP lets an AI agent call your store like an API instead of scraping it. What MCP is, how it fits Shopify, and how to make agent answers good.
- December 9th, 2025AICatalog
Preparing Your Catalog for AI-Driven Commerce: ACP, MCP, and Agentic Checkout
A grounded look at agentic commerce protocols after Instant Checkout, what they need from your catalog, and the work that still pays off.
- December 3rd, 2025AIAgentReady
Your Shopify AI-Readiness Score, Explained
Installed AgentReady and got a grade? Here is exactly what the AI-readiness score measures, what each letter means, and how to raise it.
- November 28th, 2025PerformanceSEO
Core Web Vitals for Shopify in 2026: What Actually Moves the Needle
A practical guide to the three Core Web Vitals on Shopify, what actually causes failures, and the fixes that are worth your time.
- November 20th, 2025SEOAI
Image SEO on Shopify: Alt Text, File Names, and AI Vision
Image SEO on Shopify covers more than alt text now. Here is what matters for search, accessibility, and the AI models that read images directly.
- November 13th, 2025SEO
A Shopify Technical SEO Checklist: Canonicals, Sitemaps, and Crawl Budget
The technical SEO issues that are specific to Shopify, why they happen, and how to handle canonicals, sitemaps, and crawl budget the right way.
- November 6th, 2025ContentAI
Product Descriptions That Rank and That AI Agents Can Parse
How to write Shopify product descriptions that work for shoppers, search engines, and the AI assistants that now read your catalog.
- October 30th, 2025SEO
Making Shopify Collection Pages SEO-Friendly
Collection pages are the most underused SEO asset on a Shopify store. Here is how to make them rank without creating a mess of duplicate, thin URLs.
- October 24th, 2025Structured dataSEO
Review and Rating Schema on Shopify, Done Right
Why star ratings vanish from Google on Shopify, the AggregateRating rules that matter, and how to emit clean review schema crawlers and AI agents can read.
- October 17th, 2025Structured dataSEO
Breadcrumb Schema and Site Architecture for Big Shopify Catalogs
Why Shopify products have no real parent collection, how that breaks BreadcrumbList schema, and how to architect a large catalog crawlers and AI can map.
- October 10th, 2025Structured dataSEO
FAQ Schema on Shopify: Rich Results and Answer Engines
How to add valid FAQPage structured data on Shopify, what changed with Google rich results, and why it matters more for AI assistants now.
- October 3rd, 2025Structured dataSEO
Structured Data for Shopify: A Practical Product Schema Guide
How to write correct Product JSON-LD on Shopify, including offers, variants, GTINs, and the mistakes that quietly disqualify you from rich results.
- September 26th, 2025AISEO
Why Can't AI Tools Like ChatGPT Find Your Shopify Store?
Your store can rank on page one of Google and still be invisible to ChatGPT and Gemini. A contributor's look at why AI skips stores, and what fixes it.
- September 19th, 2025AISEO
llms.txt, Explained: The Format, How It Works, and Whether It Helps
A complete guide to llms.txt: where it came from, the exact format, how AI assistants use it, how to generate and maintain one, and whether it actually helps.
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