A blog's problem is abandonment: a reader lands on one post from search and leaves without discovering anything else. Live signals — people reading right now, where they're from, a comment thread with real replies — are social proof that the post is worth finishing.
What you are trying to do here is keep a reader on the page and prove the blog is alive. Three widgets below do that; the other 15 in the set mostly do not, so they are not on this page. No app. Shopify renders raw HTML and script tags inside a Custom Liquid block, so there is nothing to install from the App Store.
On Shopify this goes in your footer section — it works anywhere on the page.
On Shopify this goes in the Blog post template, under the article — it belongs directly under the article body, which means the blog-post template rather than a global widget area.
On Shopify this goes in your footer section — a ranked country list belongs at the bottom, where its lazy-loaded flags stay below the fold.
Put the live feed and flag counter in the sidebar or footer so they persist across every post, and the comments widget directly under the article body where a reader has just finished reading.
free live traffic widget — A blog's problem is abandonment: a reader lands on one post from search and leaves without discovering anything else. Live signals — people reading right now, where they're from, a comment thread with real replies — are social proof that the post is worth finishing.
Put the live feed and flag counter in the sidebar or footer so they persist across every post, and the comments widget directly under the article body where a reader has just finished reading.
No app. Shopify renders raw HTML and script tags inside a Custom Liquid block, so there is nothing to install from the App Store.