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How to get frontend login link in shopify

Last updated: October 07 2024

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To effectively track customer information in Shopify, one essential step is getting the frontend login link. This link is crucial for directing customers to their accounts, allowing you to gather data and improve engagement. In this article, we’ll guide you through the process of obtaining the frontend login link in Shopify, helping you streamline customer tracking and enhance your store’s functionality.

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Brief guide to Liquid

For more than a decade, Liquid is a great tool for website developers to build a good page. Liquid is one of the open-source template languages in Shopify. Liquid is used as the backbone of Shopify to upload dynamic content on the front page. Liquid has now become a good source for a lot of hosted website application such as Jekyll, salesforce desk, and zendesk.

There are three codes in Liquid consisting of objects, tags, and filters. Liquid use objects to show the location of the content on a page. Double curly braces denote objects and variable names. Filters change a Liquid object’s output. Tags create logic and control flow for a template. Tags begin with two curly braces and percent signs. Tags can be divided into three types: control flow, iteration, and variable assignment.

First, url filters generate links to assets Shopify’s Content Delivery Network. Links for filtering collections and blogs are also created using these filters.

Customer login link leads you to the customer login page.

Input


{{ 'Log in' | customer_login_link }}

Output


<a href="/account/login" id="customer_login_link">Log in</a>

Conclusion

To wrap things up, Shopify’s Liquid makes it easy to generate a customer login link, providing quick access to customer profiles and information. With just a few lines of code, you can streamline your store’s backend operations. Apply this simple method to enhance your customer tracking and improve overall store management.

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Sam Nguyen is the CEO and founder of Avada Commerce, an e-commerce solution provider headquartered in Singapore. He is an expert on the Shopify e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. Sam loves talking about e-commerce and he aims to help over a million online businesses grow and thrive.