No apps. No subscriptions. No monthly fees. Just working code you paste into your theme.
Every Shopify store owner eventually wants the same handful of tweaks — a sticky add-to-cart, variant swatches, a quick-view, a mega menu. The "solution" is usually a $10–30/month app for something that's 20 lines of Liquid.
This cookbook is a growing collection of battle-tested, copy-paste snippets so you can customize your theme yourself and stop renting features.
| Snippet | What it does | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|
| 🛒 Sticky Add-to-Cart | Keeps the buy button visible as you scroll | ⭐ |
| 🎨 Variant Swatches | Color/image swatches instead of a dropdown | ⭐⭐ |
| 👁️ Quick View | Preview a product without leaving the page | ⭐⭐ |
| 📂 Mega Menu | Multi-column dropdown navigation | ⭐⭐ |
| 🚚 Free-shipping bar | "You're $X away from free shipping" | ⭐ |
| ⏱️ Countdown timer | Urgency for sales/launches | ⭐ |
More added regularly — ⭐ star the repo to get notified as new snippets land.
- Browse to the snippet folder you want
- Read the short README (where to paste, what to change)
- In Shopify: Online Store → Themes → Edit code
- Paste, save, done ✅
Every snippet is standalone — take only what you need.
💡 Tip: Always Duplicate your theme before editing, so you have a one-click rollback.
Got a snippet other store owners keep asking for? PRs welcome!
- One folder per snippet
- Include a tiny README: what it does, where to paste, what to edit
- Keep it dependency-free (no apps)
If this saved you a monthly subscription, please ⭐ the repo so more store owners find it.
MIT © Manish Kumar — use it in client work, commercial stores, anywhere.