Shopify

Have a Shopify store? Publish your blog into its own Blog posts section. Every post you publish here becomes a real Shopify article, in your theme, at your store's URLs, with its SEO title and description, its featured image and its styling. Articles you wrote yourself are never touched.

Shopify delivery pulls rather than pushes. The DailySmith app polls the same sync feed the WordPress plugin uses, with your site's public key, so no Shopify credential ever leaves your store's account and no DailySmith credential is stored anywhere.

Install the app

Install DailySmith in your store
Open the install link and approve it. Shopify shows the two permissions the app asks for: read and write content, which is blogs and articles and nothing else. No orders, no customers, no products.
Paste your site key and pick a blog
The app opens inside your Shopify admin. Enter your site's public key (pk_…, from the site page in the DailySmith dashboard) and choose the Shopify blog to publish into. A store with one blog has it selected already. Decide whether articles arrive published or hidden, so you can look them over in the admin first, and save.
Test, then sync
Test connection lists the DailySmith blogs that will sync. Sync now runs the first sync straight away. After that the app syncs on its own, every hour.

What arrives

Shopify field	From
Title	The post title
Handle (the URL)	The post slug. If an article of yours already holds it, ours gets a numbered suffix and yours keeps the address
Content	The rendered HTML, wrapped and styled (below)
Excerpt	The generated excerpt
Author	The name you set in the app, which starts as your store's name. Set once, when the article is created
Published date	The publish time recorded here
Visibility	Published or hidden, per your setting. An update re-applies it
Featured image	The post's hero, with its alt text, fetched once per image
Search engine listing	The SEO title and meta description, in the same fields you edit by hand

Every DailySmith blog on the site lands in the one Shopify blog you picked. A blog that publishes in several languages sends only its own language; see Languages below.

What is never touched

Every article the app creates carries the DailySmith post id in a metafield of its own (dailysmith.post_id). Updates and takedowns go only to the article carrying the id being synced, never to one found by handle or title. That is what lets the app share a blog with articles you write yourself:

An article of yours on the same handle keeps its handle and its content. Ours takes handle-2.
An article of ours you delete in the admin stays deleted until the post changes in DailySmith, and is then created again.
An article of ours you edit in the admin is overwritten the next time the post changes in DailySmith. Edit the post here instead, or hide it.
Uninstalling the app leaves every article in place. So does reinstalling: the app recognises its own articles by the metafield and picks them up again rather than creating a second copy.

Styling

Posts with rich components (callouts, step guides, comparisons, charts) load the component stylesheet from DailySmith through a <link> at the top of the article body, and carry your blog palette in one <style> next to it. Plain posts carry only the palette. Everything is scoped to a wrapper around the article, so it cannot restyle the rest of your theme, and the wrapper hands typography back to the theme so the article reads like the rest of your store.

Languages

Run it yourself

You do not need us to host the app. For a single store, create a custom app in your own admin and run the service anywhere that keeps one process running:

Create a custom app in Shopify
In your Shopify admin, go to Settings → Apps and sales channels → Develop apps and create an app. Under Admin API integration, tick read_content and write_content, install it, and copy the Admin API access token (shpat_…). Shopify shows it once.

Run the service

git clone https://github.com/TechnicalInsideTI/dailysmith-shopify-app
cd dailysmith-shopify-app
npm ci
cat > .env <<'ENV'
SHOPIFY_CUSTOM_APP_TOKEN=shpat_…
SHOP=my-store.myshopify.com
DAILYSMITH_PUBLIC_KEY=pk_…
SHOPIFY_BLOG_HANDLE=news
ENV
node --env-file=.env bin/sync.js

That runs one sync and prints what it did. node --env-file=.env server.js keeps running and syncs every hour. The repository's README covers the container image, the other settings, and running it as a multi-store app.

Troubleshooting

What you see	What it means
`unknown or unverified site key`	The `pk_…` key is wrong, or the site is not verified yet. Copy it again from the site page; verify the site first.
"This store has no blog yet"	Create one under Online Store → Blog posts → Manage blogs, then reload the app.
"Not configured"	Save the site key and pick a blog; the sync only runs once both are set.
"Shopify refused the access token"	The app was uninstalled, or (custom app) its token was revoked. Reinstall, or create a new token and restart the service.
An article arrived without its image	Shopify fetches the image from DailySmith when the article is created. If that fetch failed, the next change to the post sends it again.
Two articles for one post	Someone created the second one by hand, or an older copy was written before the app was installed. Delete the one without the `dailysmith.post_id` metafield; the app never creates two.

Security notes

The app stores your site's public key, the same key your embed snippet carries. It grants read access to already-published content and nothing else.
The Shopify permission is content only. The app can create and update blog articles; it cannot see orders, customers, products or settings.
The app stores no customer data. Uninstalling it deletes everything it kept about your store: its settings, its access token, and its list of which article mirrors which post. The articles stay.
A custom app token gives write access to your store's content. Keep it in the service's environment, never in a page, and revoke it from the custom app's page in your admin the day you stop using it.