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Shopify Academy closes October 29, and certifications will no longer count toward Partner Program tiers.

Existing badges stay valid through January 2028, and paid exams get refunded automatically.

More in this week’s Liquid Weekly 👇
https://t.co/BThtEobJBk

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Shopify's theme performance best practices answer the same three questions on every page: why it matters, how to build it, and how to check that it worked.

Worth a bookmark even if you never plan to submit a theme.

It leads off Liquid Weekly 251: https://t.co/BThtEobJBk

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Issue 250 is out!

Tobi announced Shop Pay checkout inside Muse, on every Shopify store. The same week, Lovable shipped an integration for building storefronts by chatting with AI.

Generating the store and closing the sale, both ends of the job.

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The next issue if Liquid Weekly is out!

Taylor is heading to India for his first time, and before he goes, Prakhar Shrivastava of FoxSell sat down with us to get him ready.

The full episode is in this week's Liquid Weekly, along with:

• ChatGPT Ads going live for Shopify, pulling straight from Shopify Catalog
• The Shopify admin's new look and what it means for apps
• Shopify CLI 4.8 creating dev stores from the terminal

Check it out at https://t.co/9RSoxzrGSA

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Episode 75 is out!

@PrakharS96 of @FoxSellapp on India's Shopify ecosystem and Shop Quest, which happens October 3 in Bengaluru.

@trpage_dev is going. I am not. We sent him anyway.

Plus the changelog and picks.

https://t.co/tpIuwvDNec

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Issue 248 of Liquid Weekly is out, and most of it is about the business of running a Shopify app.

Mat De Sousa published his monthly App Store scan for August. More than 27,000 apps listed, 6% carrying the Built for Shopify badge.

Alexander Hupfer joined us on the podcast to talk about app analytics, specifically churn, LTV, and MRR, and which of those tell you something useful when you're running an app business.

Plus much more!

I hope you learn something new!

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Customers are starting to shop like this:

"hoodie for walking around SF on a windy summer day"

An AI agent answers that by building a comparison table.

It can only compare facts someone actually wrote down.

@kgelster 's fix: give Shopify Catalog a product metafield written for an LLM instead of a human.

LW 247 is out

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No newsletter today - Liquid Weekly is enjoying a short break.
But don't worry - the next issue will be coming next week.!

In the meantime if you've written or encountered something you think other Shopify developers would be interested in reading let us know!
https://t.co/9vVLUNZz5Q

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Liquid Weekly 246 is out.

Taylor Page on metaobjects as a configuration layer
Bas Lefeber on the new Events system vs webhook topics
Blair Beckwith on why Mantle shut down, with Mat De Sousa

Plus llms.txt, CLI 4.7.0, and token exchange in v8.0.0.

https://t.co/0B3mxHvJEe

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New episode: I Hid Swag at DotDev and I'd Do It Again!

@trpage_dev is back with @kmeister2000. We recap the whole DotDev week. A canceled flight, a minivan of signage at the border, Taylor's metaobjects talk, the block party that ate a whole Toronto street, and Karl's nack reviews.

https://t.co/bAdpyiRBeB

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This week's issue is a special one - our FIVE YEAR anniversary.

Who could believe that this little experiment to scratch my own itch for a regular source of Shopify development related news and content would go on for half a decade!

That's 245 issues and 2,969 links.

To celebrate I decided to do something different with this issue and analyze how the Shopify development landscape has changed during that time.

Check it out https://t.co/d0ZnOdbeG2

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@devwithalex @backstreetboys @SphereVegas What did they show on the sphere - an episode of Liquid Weekly?

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Issue 244 of Liquid Weekly is out 🚀

What actually shipped at DotDev vs. what's still preview-only: native app analytics with ShopifyQL, Events replacing webhooks, Liquid-first templates. Plus first impressions of building with Sidekick and why Static Apps are changing the economics of Shopify app dev.

Check it out: https://t.co/KpqbpFjyHX

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DotDev 2026: Tobi, Vercel, and the Agentic Commerce Keynote
Issue 243 of Liquid Weekly is available now!

Today’s issue includes:
* State of Ecommerce 2026: AI Traffic, Shop App & Channel Data | Ethercycle
* Fireside Chat with Tobias Lütke and Guillermo Rauch at DotDev 2026
* Main Stage Keynote with Vanessa Lee | DotDev 2026
* POS UI Extensions Can Now Print Directly to Hardware Receipt Printers
* And more!

Each week we curate some of the best content for Shopify developers to stay up to date and grow their skills

Not a subscriber? You can access it directly on the web: https://t.co/KpqbpFjyHX

Thank you to all the hard working people producing such great content around Shopify development!

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DotDev Recap: New APIs, Old Themes, and the Review Purge
Issue 242 of Liquid Weekly is available now!

Today’s issue includes:
* Shopify Just Opened a Free API to Every Store
* Shopify Theme 1.0 is Better Suited for Agentic Development Than Theme 2.0
* Shopify App Store begins review purge
* Shopify's Liam confirms: appeal removed reviews through direct support
* And more!

Each week we curate some of the best content for Shopify developers to stay up to date and grow their skills

Not a subscriber? You can access it directly on the web: https://t.co/KpqbpFjyHX

Thank you to all the hard working people producing such great content around Shopify development!

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New Liquid Weekly episode: we pit Claude vs. Codex against each other building real Shopify extensions — same MCP, wildly different results.

@trpage_dev also built a full coffee shop brand (theme, imagery, metaobjects) with AI in one afternoon for his DEV talk.

Also: Shopify just added identity verification for partners requesting Collaborator access.

Check it out!
https://t.co/Ve5c6WBGL8

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@TRPage_dev is crushing his talk on using meta fields and meta objects for configuration.

It’s a packed room!

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Tomorrow @TRPage_dev and @kmeister2000 will be chatting with some partners at the sweet dotdev studio

There’s no ceiling fan or poor lighting - it’s gonna feel weird but look great

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We’re posting a bunch of stuff during dotdev. Check out @kmeister2000 and @trpage_dev

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Same-Day Delivery, AI Agents, and a Smarter Event System
Issue 241 of Liquid Weekly is available now!

Today’s issue includes:
* Same-day delivery used to be something only the biggest retailers could offer
* Developers Are Automating Entire Services
* Claude Code Plugin for Shopify Embedded App Verification on GitHub
* Liquiflow AI Theme Builder Coming Soon
* And more!

Each week we curate some of the best content for Shopify developers to stay up to date and grow their skills

Not a subscriber? You can access it directly on the web: https://t.co/KpqbpFjyHX

Thank you to all the hard working people producing such great content around Shopify development!