Riajul Islam
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E-commerce · 13 posts

E-commerce & Shopify

Headless builds, Liquid themes, storefront performance and the decisions behind going headless at all.

E-commerce13 min read

Shopify Subscriptions: What Nobody Warns You About

Recurring revenue is the easiest thing to sell internally and the hardest to run. The failure modes are operational, not technical — here they are.

E-commerce13 min read

Metafields Without Slowing the Store Down

Custom product data is how a Shopify store stops looking generic. It is also how a collection page ends up making four hundred lookups per render.

E-commerce13 min read

Reading an Experiment Result Without Fooling Yourself

The test finished and the number is green. Here is what to check before you ship it, and the ways a result can be real and still not repeat.

E-commerce13 min read

How Much of Shopify Checkout Can You Change?

Less than you want and more than you think. What is configurable, what needs Plus, what needs an extension, and what you should not touch at all.

E-commerce13 min read

Figma to Shopify Without Losing the Design

A design that looks perfect in Figma and wrong in the theme editor failed at handoff, not at build. What the file needs before anyone writes Liquid.

E-commerce13 min read

Product Schema on Shopify, Done Properly

Rich results need structured data that matches the page exactly. Most Shopify themes emit something close enough to look fine and wrong enough to fail.

E-commerce13 min read

What Actually Belongs on a Product Page

The page that decides the sale, element by element — in the order a buyer needs them, and with the things that only add weight left out.

E-commerce13 min read

A/B Testing a Shopify Store with PostHog

Feature flags, experiments and session recordings on a Liquid theme — without a dedicated testing tool, and without the flicker that ruins the result.

E-commerce13 min read

The CRO Loop: How Conversion Work Actually Runs

Measure, hypothesise, build, test, decide, repeat. The loop is simple and almost every team breaks it in the same three places.

E-commerce13 min read

Custom Theme or Premium Theme? How I Decide

A £300 theme covers most stores completely. A custom build is right for a narrow set of them. The deciding factor is usually not what people think.

E-commerce13 min read

Making a Shopify Theme Fast Without Going Headless

Most slow Shopify stores are slow for four reasons, none of them Shopify. A day of the right work usually beats a quarter of rebuilding.

E-commerce13 min read

Where Ecommerce Conversion Actually Leaks

Most stores lose more revenue between the product page and the cart than anywhere else — and fix the homepage instead. Where to look, in order.

E-commerce13 min read

Is Headless Shopify Worth It? An Honest Answer

Going headless cut one store’s load time by 58% and lifted mobile conversion 24%. It also cost more to build and more to run. When that trade makes sense.

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