Shopify
A logo showcase for your Shopify store, and nothing added to the theme.
The brands you carry, the press you have had, the partners you work with, in a strip that moves. It goes into a Custom Liquid section as one iframe, so it adds no app script to your theme, and a paid plan never counts views against you.
The marks and videos in these examples are well known ones shown as samples, beside made-up companies drawn for our demos, so the widget is demonstrated at a realistic size. They are their owners' and imply nothing about them.
Three steps
Putting it on the page
1. Build it
Upload the logos, pick the layout, set the colors. Phone settings are separate and previewed at phone width.
2. Copy the code
The editor gives you your embed code: one short code (an iframe and a small script). That is the whole integration.
3. Add a Custom Liquid section
In the theme editor, Add section, Custom Liquid (or Custom HTML in older themes), paste the code, save. It sits wherever you put the section.
The honest comparison
Against a logo app from the App Store
Apps are not bad. Most add a script to every page of the theme, and some, such as Common Ninja's, meter views by plan.
What a theme app costs you
A script in your theme on every page, whether or not the page shows logos. A separate app, with its own monthly charge, for each kind of widget. On some, a monthly view allowance: Common Ninja's runs from 300 views on its free plan to 3,000,000 on its top one. An app that can edit your theme code and leaves pieces behind when removed.
What this costs you
One iframe, in one section, on the pages you put it on. It loads after your content from a CDN, in its own document, so it cannot hold up your theme's render and cannot reach into your Liquid. Nothing goes into theme.liquid, so nothing is left behind if you stop using it. Views are never counted or capped on any paid plan.
The trade: the widget is served from our CDN rather than from your theme, so it needs a network connection to appear and it is not part of a theme export.
Where it goes
Places it fits
Home page
Under the hero or above the footer, where 'as seen in' and 'brands we carry' strips usually live.
Product pages
A Custom Liquid block inside the product template, for the brands behind a product.
About page
Partners and press, in a strip that moves rather than a static row of gray logos.
Any theme
Dawn, Sense, Craft, every Online Store 2.0 theme has Custom Liquid. Older themes have Custom HTML.
Shopify app, soon
A DreamWidget app for the Shopify App Store is being built. Until then the section is the same widget.
Wix, Squarespace, WordPress too
One widget can be on every site you run.
Questions
Asked often
Can I add a logo showcase to Shopify without an app?
Yes. Paste your embed code into a Custom Liquid section in the theme editor. Nothing installs in the theme, nothing is added to theme.liquid, and nothing runs on the pages that do not show it.
Does it work with Dawn and other Online Store 2.0 themes?
Yes. Every Online Store 2.0 theme has a Custom Liquid section and a Custom Liquid block, so you can put the strip in a section of its own or inside a product template. Older themes have Custom HTML, which takes the same code.
What happens when I change or update my theme?
Nothing. The code lives in the section you added it to, so duplicating a theme to test a change carries it along, and there is no app code in theme.liquid to be lost or left behind. That is the part that usually bites: an app removed from the admin can leave its snippets in the theme.
Will it hurt my speed score?
Shopify scores your store on the home, product and collection templates. This adds no script to any of them. The widget is one iframe of about 27KB that loads after your content from a CDN, in its own document, so it cannot block your theme from rendering.
Is there a view limit?
No paid plan here has one. Views are served from a CDN where they cost us nothing, so a sale day is not an event: the strip that ran in October runs the same way on Black Friday. The free plan is the exception, at 300 views per widget a month, after which the widget pauses until the month turns.
What if I change the logos later?
Edit the widget in the DreamWidget editor and the section updates itself. The code points at the widget rather than carrying a copy of it, so you do not open the theme editor again to add a brand.
Does it work on phones?
Desktop and phone each keep their own copy of every design setting, previewed at that width, and a tablet follows the desktop design. So the phone version is something you set rather than something the theme does to it.
Build one, paste it into a section
Free forever for 2 widgets and 300 views each a month. No card, no app to install.
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