Arabic Shopify theme and RTL languages

Shopify Inc. is a Canadian multinational e-commerce company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. It is also the name of its proprietary e-commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems.With more than 1 Million merchants at the time of writing this article, Shopify is considered as the #1 preferred eCommerce platform

The default languages in Shopify (LTR — Lef To Right)

Shopify has released a limited languages of the admin and the preset text in the store front, on Free Shopify themes, you can have your store in one of these languages :

• Chinese (Simplified)
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Portuguese (Portugal)
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Thai
• Turkish
• Vietnamese

If your desired language is not listed above, you will need to add it manually

What is a RTL (Right To Left ) languages ?

In a right-to-left, top-to-bottom script (commonly shortened to right to left or abbreviated RTL), writing starts from the right of the page and continues to the left, proceeding from top to bottom for new lines. This can be contrasted against left-to-right writing systems, where writing starts from the left of the page and continues to the right.

Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu are the most widespread RTL writing systems in modern times. Unfortunately, having a Shopify store in an RTL language can be a big challenge, since there is no Shopify themes that efficiently supports these kind of languages.

Plak Theme Arabic

Plak Theme LLC, the leading designer of premium Shopify themes, pretty well known for serving Shopify Plus merchants and large inventory businesses.

Marouane RHAFLI, most know as Marouane The Number 1 (because he helps shopify merchants get on first page of Google) was the first to release a Shopify theme in Arabic

Templates from Plak Theme area fully-loaded, perfect for large businesses. Offering high-demand functionalities, SEO friendly , reliable performance, and rich design flexibility with a professional blog template.

Plak Theme is well known to be also an eCommerce problem solver, among its exclusive features, I can cite :

• Blurry coupon (solved the entrance popups issues)
• Table of Content (solved the user experience issue on blog pages)
• Mobile friendly themes (solved the clunkiest scrolling issue on other themes)
• Desktop product page design (solved the mutlti-perspective design issue on other themes)
• Dynamic fitler sidebar (solved the non-functional filtering of other themes)
• …& more

Plak Theme announced the launch of a theme dedicated to the Arab community, this is a great news for Arab countries and for Shopify to expand its customers around the Arab world

The great news for Arab merchants, is the ability to have a checkout translated to Arabic, ready to use upon purchasing the theme…Learn more