Wow! Thanks so much Christina! (stickied) :)

thank you! Great resource!

Christina – This is amazing! Thank you so much!

Leo

Christina, that’s fabulous, well done and thank you.

Wow, what a list. I am sure it will come in handy! Thanks Christina!

Broken link → Non-notification of orders

Hm, thanks.

I would edit this occasionally to add new interesting threads and weed out the useless ones, but it seems I can’t edit since this post has been sticki’d.

Don’t know if that could be changed? That post authors can still edit stickies?

Christina,
you should be able to edit the topics that you’ve created for indefinite time. Problem was not the sticky but that we limit the time for allowing editing to 3 days (still have that restriction on comments).

Thanks!

Thanks Daniel!

So now I just created some more work for meself, I guess :(

what’s with the textile tags being converted to html & showing?

those used to be h2 and h3 headings. what textile/html is allowed here?

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oh yes, that was a result of a whitelist for tags. They are escaped. But I just updated that. If you edit your post and save it again they should show up properly.

thx alot

but still wondering how to feature products

There’s a collection called Frontpage. Just assign the products that you would like to be featured to that collection, and they will automatically appear on the front page. The number displayed, and the way they are displayed will depend on the theme.

Thanks Cliff

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Thanks for this Christina!

I have created a website with shopify. I have posted products and i have opened a paypal account. I am having trouble with the checkout part. When my customers go to checkout the page goes back to the front page. I have tried so many things to fix the problem, and i am now stuck. I have no clue what to do from here. Please help! My website is karibukenya.myshopify.com

My problem is so simple, I’m sure, but so profound. I’ve been working at it for hours. Newbie. The text I enter in the product description box does not show up when I go to the website I’m creating. Neither does the “variant” pricing. PLEEEASSEEE!!! What am I missing here?

Thanks

Hi Christina,

I was wondering if you could add something about Flash files that use xml to pull in variables. eg. Slideshow Pro or most of the files on Flashden. It appears that they will not work under Shopify’s file/folder structure. (unless someone can prove me wrong).

There is a short thread on it here.

Instead you need to ref your files elsewhere. Bingo Disk works fine, as well as Dropbox . I am sure there are others as well including your own server somewhere else. Dropbox is nice in that you can edit your files as if they are local and they are sync’d in real time as you save.

I think this would save folks a ton of time through trial and error if we can get this posted here or in the wiki. There are a ton of posts with people trying to get this to work without any success and if we can save them from trying in the first place I think it would help lower some frustration levels among Flash users.

If using swfObject (highly recommended and standard compliant) simply reference your .swf and .xml file on the other server with an absolute path. Double check your .xml file for correct image paths on your other server and you should be up and running in no time rather than trying to debug what the issue may be with paths within Shopify.

Thanks!

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I need to add meta tags to at least the index page. How do I do that?

I am selling hardware on a Shopify site. I want to post a few photos of different categories of hardware on my homepage and have those photos link to whole collections of the same categories. Example, a photo of a doorknob on the home page would like to a whole collection of doorknobs. How do I do that?

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Hi Jack welcome to the forum! If you could post this in the general section under your own topic it will get more views and more suggestions. I have a few myself, but hate to put them in this section as it may get involved/lengthy.

reposting to another section

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Thanks Christina for this lengthy list of information, however, I have been through the faqs page, wiki and your list and have not been able to find my answers.

My questions are:

- How to make catagories with subcatories?

- Is there an easier way to have products show variables in a drop down list without me having to code it?

- The reason for me wanting a preset ecommerce shop is so that I don’t have to do or know any coding(in which I don’t),but to get these simple things, I need to go through all these changes of coding this site. Am I not looking in the right areas or is this true of shopify, I need to code everything to get a slight change?

Hi Kiana,

Welcome to the forum! If you could post this in the general section under your own topic it will get more views and more suggestions. I have a few myself, but hate to put them in this section as it may get involved/lengthy.

Shopify works great for what it does, however to get custom functionality you will have to customize the code to fit your specific needs. This is true of every e-commerce system out there.

If you have some experience with html and css it’s not a far leap to change some simple things in one of the many pre-canned templates.

Has anybody had this problem where they upload a custom/edited theme, but the graphics that are displayed are from an earlier iteration of the same theme, perhaps uploaded the day before. Is this a cdn issue where the content takes time to replicate across servers?

It seems to get rid of the problem if I rename the graphics files and their corresponding references in the code, however this is not a practical solution to have to do before every revision.

Regards,
Viraj

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Hi Viraj – you are probably viewing cached images. Delete your browser history, and that should do the trick

Thanks Ryan—I’m using firefox with delete private data turned on. Restarted browser as well as machine. Manually deleted cache, still seeing old images.

Yes, I have had this problem before. It must be on Shopifys end because I have deleted JS and CSS files over and over and still see them appearing in my assets.

I did this with, for example, a logo. You delete the logo graphic and upload a different version but with the same name… you will still see the old one. It’s not cache or client-side. It seems like Shopify is being safe and keeping deleted files in case of an accident, but I have yet to ask Shopify to revive old files do to accidents such as the case with self-hosting companies.

Contact Shopify through their support page and ask what’s up, otherwise you may have to take the impractical route… I know I have before.

Shopify is caching assets. Duh. Use Firebug or Charles to verify you’re seeing 304 status from cache. Now, you’d think uploading a new image with the same name would update a timestamp on the assets forcing the new content to be dealt… but this is clearly not the case all the time.

So, relax, have a beer or two, and simply wait for the system to process your new file before freaking out. Notice that when you rename files to something new it works?

Cache does you more good than harm, so you have to be somewhat patient and understanding. Me thinks anyway… just a supposition….

Yea, when I rename a file, whether its a PNG, JS or CSS I get instant results. But for some reason having a beer or two doesn’t do anything! ;)

Bill, I understand the caching thing with Shopify, as it’s what any big Internet service does, but why am I getting deleted files to show up again after I have deleted them several times?

It’s not a big issue, otherwise, I would have gone to support, but I have seen this several times and I scratch my head thinking, am I getting old or am I drunk?

Anyways, renaming works, that why I often use a log name logo8.png after eight variations.

It would be great if there was a “flush” button which would clear out all files related to themes with one click, with all caches removed from everywhere.

Viraj

I wrote a quick utility to do this “automagically”
http://forums.shopify.com/categories/1/posts/27494