Email About (include) tag ?

Hi @adenmott

Katrine here from Plak theme support,

Yes you are right, the include tag in the mail refer to :

{% include 'snippet_name' %}

Whereas the render tag refer to :

{%  render 'snippet_name ' %}

The include tag works similarly to the render tag, but it lets the code inside of the snippet to access and overwrite the variables within its parent template. The include tag has been deprecated because the way that it handles variables reduces performance and makes theme code harder to both read and maintain.

But, to answer your question, if you just change the word (include) to (render) in the theme code, it won't work when there are some variables, especially for sections, collections, blocks, media, ...

Here is an example from the product template code

- Using include

{% for media in product.media %}
{% include 'media' %}
{% endfor %}

- The wrong way using render

{% for media in product.media %}
{% render 'media' %}
{% endfor %}

- The correct way using render

{% for media in product.media %}
{% render 'media', media: media %}
{% endfor %}

If there was an easy and automatic way to do so, we would have been pleased to do it for our merchants and for free, but as you can see, we need to update each merchant store manually and go through each code and verify that every feature is working properly after the changes and this takes time.

We have successfully updated some merchants stores. If you don't feel comfortable with coding, I highly recommend you hiring our service or a third party developer to make this update.

If you have any specific question in regards to this, feel free to reach out to us 🙂

Katrine