🚀 How I Went From WordPress to Coding My Own Shopify Theme
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🕰️ A Decade Ago: My First Website
About ten years ago, back when Web 2.0 still felt like the Wild West and everyone was building personal websites like digital homesteads, I sat down and coded my own little corner of the internet.
- It was basic.
- Personal.
- DIY.
- And it worked.
That was my first taste of building something online with my own two hands.
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📦 Moving to Shopify: The Business Experiment
Eventually, like a lot of people chasing both creativity and commerce, I moved that personal site onto Shopify.
My goal:
Start a small business, sell books from my family library, and turn this hobby into something real.
And then the problems started.
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🧩 The Shopify Problem
Shopify, I quickly learned, was nothing like what I had coded before:
- Its structure: foreign.
- Its logic: confusing.
- Its language: Liquid (which might as well have been Latin).
It felt like trying to fix a car engine by reading IKEA instructions.
For a while, I just accepted it:
- Picked a theme.
- Customized what I could.
- Stacked new features on top of old ones as the years went by.
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🏗️ The Pile Gets Wobbly
The more I tried to fit my ideas into pre-made themes, the more I hit limitations.
Shopify’s themes were fine for most people — but not for the way my brain works. I wanted to design things that didn't fit neatly into the boxes they provided.
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🛠️ Decision Time: Build It Myself
After years of building around the limitations, I finally made the decision:
I’m coding my own Shopify theme from scratch.
- No more workarounds.
- No more compromises.
- No more duct-taping features together.
I’m diving headfirst into Shopify 2.0, not because I think I’m some coding genius, but because nobody’s going to build exactly what I want except me.
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🔧 The Beginning of the Journey
This is my first entry in what will probably be a long-running series of posts documenting that journey.
I’ve lived with Shopify long enough now to know both its strengths and its quirks. The only way forward is to stop hacking together workarounds and build it right from the foundation.
This is personal. This is business. This is therapy.
Let’s see where it goes. 🔜
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Stay tuned for Part 2!