Search and Discovery: Hide Unwanted Tags

[hshepherd]

Hello,

We use some tags like "made to order" or "$15 shipping surcharge" for us to identify products on the backend (We can't switch to using Collections for these groups since a different app we use won't pull products in by Collection).

We want to show some tags in our search filter options for customers, but we want to hide these backend-use-only tags. Is this possible? We are on the most current version of the District theme.

[jdashley]

Did you ever get this resolved? I've been working on this for a couple of days now without much success trying to filter using a custom section block. Seems crazy you can't set a limit or designate tags to be used on the front end since so many stores have back-end only or random tags added to products. I would think if you could group, you could also limit or hide.

[hshepherd]

No, I have not. I have just been "psuedo-hiding" them by grouping them with other tags that are relevant - i.e. "Made to Order: 1-2 Weeks Shipping" tag I grouped in with our "Gift Ideas" tag, since almost anything can be considered a gift.

I believe you can somehow use metafields or objects to hide them, but I don't have much experience with these.

[jdashley]

The site I am working on has 1000s of products and years worth of tag related product management. We're moving from an old 1.0 theme that uses product tags for it's collection page filters. I don't want to move them to a meta fields solution because the migration would be a mess. Each product has so many other tags unrelated to ways we would filter the products. 

Anyway, I've almost solved it a few times but creating a selected_tags section block in the theme filter settings similar to how the old theme works but I can't get it to work with multiple tags separated by comma. Only one. Driving me mad. There's something in the way Shopify and the theme parse the tags that goes beyond string fliters, etc.