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      <description>How I build Shopify Online Store 2.0 sections: schema, settings, blocks, presets and app blocks, with a complete FAQ section you can copy.</description>
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      <title>Freelance Shopify developer or agency: which should you hire?</title>
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      <description>When a freelance Shopify developer is the better hire, when an agency is, and how cost, risk and communication compare, from a developer who has done both.</description>
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      <title>Hiring a Shopify developer in another time zone: how US-hours overlap works</title>
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      <description>How time-zone overlap works with a Shopify developer in Pakistan (UTC+5): exact hours for US Eastern, Central, Pacific and UK teams, in summer and winter.</description>
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      <description>A custom Shopify theme from Figma takes 60 to 120 hours, $2,700 to $5,400 at $45/hr. Theme Store themes cost $100 to $500. What sets the price.</description>
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      <title>How much does a Shopify developer cost in 2026?</title>
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      <description>Shopify developer rates in 2026: freelancer, network, agency and in-house costs, plus the hours common jobs take at $45 an hour.</description>
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      <title>How to hire a Shopify developer (checklist, questions, red flags)</title>
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      <description>How to hire a Shopify developer: what to check in a portfolio, ten questions to ask, the red flags, and how to give store access safely.</description>
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      <description>The EAA has covered e-commerce since 28 June 2025. Who it applies to, what WCAG 2.2 adds, and a page-by-page accessibility checklist for Shopify stores.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>Shopify Plus starts at $2,300 a month. What it adds over Advanced in 2026, what is now on every plan, and when the upgrade pays for itself.</description>
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      <title>What is a good Lighthouse score for a Shopify store, and how to reach 90+ on mobile</title>
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      <description>Lighthouse calls 90 to 100 good. What a Shopify store's mobile score measures, why it jumps between runs, and the changes that get it past 90.</description>
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      <title>Why is my Shopify store slow? The fixes that actually move Core Web Vitals</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Nabeel Yaseen</dc:creator>
      <description>What slows Shopify stores down, from app scripts to a late hero image, and the fixes that move LCP, INP and CLS, plus the ones that don't.</description>
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