Hide Archived Products EVERYWHERE! Provide structure AND tags, not either/or.

[Ben31]

Hi There, lots of posts on this (see below)...

Archived products shouldn't display anywhere unless you're specifically looking for archived products.

We have several products we plan on bringing back once we have more cashflow but in the meantime, nobody wants archived products displaying in any product list like...

• The products section
• Draft orders
• Site maps 
• SEO
• Third party apps that choose products and variants
• Anywhere products are displayed

The whole point is to remove clutter until we're ready to sell a particular product again.

It's like the products are simply tagged as 'archived' but are not actually archived. This is a huge Shopify problem in general and is probably why breadcrumb navigation doesn't work without jumping through hoops.

Tags provide zero structure, they're a sorting and search feature. But tags don't replace structure, as humans, everyone needs both; Structure AND Searching/Sorting.

A quick 1 minute search found plenty of frustration around this issue...

• https://community.shopify.com/c/shopify-apps/shopify-inventory-showing-archived-products/m-p/1562334
• https://community.shopify.com/c/shopify-discussions/does-archiving-a-product-remove-it-from-the-site...
• https://community.shopify.com/c/shopify-discussions/archive-products-hide-old-products-from-product-...
• https://community.shopify.com/c/shopify-apps/feature-request-archived-products-should-be-hidden-by-d...
• https://community.shopify.com/c/shopify-design/products-that-have-been-archived-coming-up-in-search-...
• https://community.shopify.com/c/shopify-design/products-that-have-been-archived-coming-up-in-search-...

Please, the idea that we don't need structure because we have tags is outdated. Human brains love structure - we need both!

Cheers, Ben