Introduction

Introducing Liquid, the templating language that you will use to develop your Live Editor theme.

Liquid is an open source templating language created and maintained by Shopify. It allows you to have complete creative freedom when developing themes with dynamic content on Live Editor sites.

While there are some differences in our implementation vs. Shopify’s, we have taken care to keep Live Editor’s implementation of Liquid as similar to Shopify"s as possible.

Liquid is a fairly simple programming language with a few concepts to learn:

Language Basics

Language syntax, data types, and operators available.

Tags

How to mark up a Liquid template to contain conditional logic, iterate over data with loops, and work with variables.

Objects

The data available to work with within Liquid tempaltes.

Filters

Simple built-in functions for manipulating data.

Next steps

Start with our reference on Language Basics.