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Shopify · Guides
Specter + Shopify guides
Everything you can do with Specter on a Shopify site — from first sync to bulk AI rewrites across your whole archive.
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A content-marketing workflow for Shopify blogs that actually scales
An end-to-end content workflow for Shopify store owners who run the blog seriously: research, draft locally with AI help, review, bulk-publish via Specter, measure, refresh.
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How to add a CTA to every Shopify article at once
Insert a newsletter, collection link, or lead-magnet CTA at a consistent location across every Shopify article. Sync the blog to markdown with Specter, run a pass that places the CTA, preview, and push.
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How to back up your Shopify articles as markdown
Specter keeps a continuous local mirror of every Shopify article as a markdown file. Commit it to Git if you want. Not a full store backup — just the content you actually wrote.
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How to bulk edit Shopify article SEO (at scale)
Bulk edit Shopify article SEO: sync your blog to local markdown with Specter, run an AI or script pass across every article, preview the diff, and push back via the Admin API.
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How to bulk-fix broken internal links across Shopify articles
Find and fix dead internal links across every Shopify article in one pass: sync the blog to markdown with Specter, scan for 404s and changed URLs, run an AI or script-driven swap, preview, and push.
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How to bulk-write meta descriptions for Shopify articles
Generate meta descriptions across every Shopify article in one pass. Sync your blog to markdown with Specter, run an AI prompt that fills empty meta descriptions without overwriting existing ones, preview, and push.
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How to connect Specter to your Shopify store
Step-by-step: connect Specter to your Shopify store via OAuth. Enter your store handle, approve the read_content / write_content scopes in Shopify admin, and Specter completes the handshake on your Mac.
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How to edit Shopify articles with Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini
A hands-on workflow to edit Shopify articles with Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini: sync your store blog to local markdown with Specter, edit, preview the diff, and sync back.
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Shopify blogs vs Online Store pages — what Specter syncs
Shopify has two distinct text surfaces — blogs with articles, and Online Store pages. Here's exactly which ones Specter syncs as markdown, and what's deliberately out of scope.
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Shopify rich text vs markdown — how Specter round-trips article bodies
Shopify articles are stored as HTML. Specter converts HTML to markdown on the way down and back on the way up. Here's exactly what round-trips cleanly and what's lossy.
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Use AI to edit your Shopify articles (the big-picture workflow)
Why the Shopify article editor and your AI tools don't meet — and the markdown-sync workflow that bridges them without per-article fees or model lock-in.
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What permissions Specter asks for on Shopify (and what it can't see)
A precise breakdown of the Shopify Admin API scopes Specter requests — read_content and write_content — what they grant, and the long list of things they don't (orders, customers, products, payouts, themes, Liquid).
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