Shopify Liquid Basics for Beginners

Liquid is Shopify's templating language — the glue between your store's data and its HTML. Learning the basics lets you customise a theme far beyond what the settings allow.

The three building blocks

• Objects — data like product, collection or cart, output with {{ }}.
• Tags — logic like loops and conditionals, written with {% %}.
• Filters — transform output, e.g. formatting a price or resizing an image.

A simple example

To list products in a collection you loop over them, output each title and price, and format the price with a filter. That single pattern powers most of what you see on a Shopify storefront — and once it clicks, the rest follows.

From editing to building

Start by editing a section, then build your own reusable sections with schema settings. Clean, well-structured Liquid keeps a theme fast and easy to extend. Experts Cabin writes maintainable Liquid so your store stays quick and simple to grow.