{"id":1403,"date":"2011-06-03T09:10:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T23:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2011-06-02T15:17:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T05:17:20","slug":"syntax-highlighting-now-in-our-liquid-template-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spiffystores.com.au\/blog\/2011\/06\/03\/syntax-highlighting-now-in-our-liquid-template-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax highlighting – now in our Liquid template editor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Until now the Theme Editor has displayed your theme’s Liquid template files in a very boring, black text field.<\/p>\n

We think this makes it harder to edit and change your theme files than it needs to be, so we’ve added a bit of colour to the whole process.<\/p>\n

Now, when you go to edit a theme’s Liquid file, you’ll see the text highlighted and colour-coded according to the syntax of the language. You’ll see HTML, CSS and Javascript as well as all the Liquid tags highlighted using different colours so that it makes it a lot easier to navigate your way around the file. In addition, strings, numbers and various other bits of punctuation are highlighted as well.<\/p>\n

To round off this update, we’ve added line numbers on the left to make it easier to locate and refer to the code.<\/p>\n

In technical terms, this is known as a syntax-directed editor, but we just call it easy to use<\/q>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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