AI-generatedWhat I do on Shopify
I’m DC, a freelance Shopify developer in North Wales working for stores in the UK, Europe and North America. One person writes the code, from the theme to the private app to the connection with your ERP or email platform.
Themes
Speed
AI-generatedFixA store that loads fast on a phoneApps and scripts audited, the heaviest removed or deferred, Core Web Vitals passed.Apps
Shopify Plus
AI search
AI-generatedFixReadable by ChatGPT and PerplexityCrawler settings, product schema and reviews that make the store citable.Migrations
AI-generatedMoveOnto Shopify, without losing rankingsFrom Magento or WooCommerce, with redirects, data and customer accounts carried across.Shopify work, by job
What a freelance Shopify developer is usually hired for, and what each job involves.
Shopify theme development
Online Store 2.0 themes with sections and blocks your team can rearrange without a developer, built from scratch or adapted from a theme you already own. The aim is a theme that shows what you sell the way you sell it, and stays fast because every app and script on it earns its place.
Shopify Plus
Checkout customisation on Shopify Plus now runs through checkout UI extensions and Shopify Functions, since checkout.liquid was retired. That covers extra fields, delivery and payment rules, trade discounts and B2B price lists, all without touching Shopify’s own checkout code.
Shopify apps
When the App Store doesn’t have what you need, or you are paying for several apps to do one job, a custom app built for your store alone can replace them. The Shopify custom apps page covers what they can do.
Shopify migrations
From Magento, WooCommerce or a custom build. The data is the easy part; the work is redirecting every old address, keeping product and category content that ranks, rebuilding what the old store did that Shopify doesn’t, and running both side by side until the numbers match.
Shopify speed
Most slow Shopify stores are slow because of apps: each one adds scripts to every page, and uninstalled apps often leave theirs behind. Speed work measures each template, removes what isn’t needed, and loads the rest later, so the first screen appears quickly on a phone.
I price each project on its scope and what it is worth to your store, agreed in writing before anything starts, rather than billing by the hour. A free call is enough to give you a straight answer on the likely size of the job.
An agency brings a team and the overhead of one. A freelancer is one senior person who quotes the job, builds it and answers the phone six months later. For a theme, an app or a fix, that is usually faster and cheaper; for a store that needs a team of ten every week, it isn’t.
Yes: checkout customisation, B2B and trade pricing, and the Plus features that are often paid for and never switched on.
Usually. Slow or blank pages come down to apps, theme code or third-party scripts more often than Shopify itself. The self-check article shows how to find out which metric is failing before you pay anyone.
Yes, from Magento, WooCommerce or a custom build, with products, customers, orders and redirects carried across so rankings survive the move.
Yes, alongside your team or behind it, on themes, apps and integrations.
UK based · PHP · Python · JS · TS. Every first call is free.
