Craft Theme - limbo: Collections resolve to same page with all collections

[KateStone]

Hello, this is bringing me to my wits end. I am using the Craft 15.3.0. theme for a very simple shop: www.criatura.shop The home page has a collection list. I would like for customers to click one of the collections and to be directed to the shop page, jumping directly to the section with the collection's products. The shop page consists of featured collections sections and has the url collections/all.
I don't know where I am going wrong. Whatever collection I click from the homepage, it always resolves to the top of the shop page with all collections - instead of a specific collection section. And it does that even though it is displaying a "technically correct" url like collections/collection-name.
Basically, collections/all and collections/collection-name both resolve to the same shop page.

When I go to the admin section and check and view my individual collections, I get directed to the same shop page, not the individual collection.

Tried everything, what am I doing wrong? I cannot code btw. and I have not added custom code anywhere on the template. I hope someone is out there, who can help.

[Dan-From-Ryviu · Accepted solution]

Hi @KateStone 

I assume you removed the Product Grid section from the Default collection template and replaced it with the Featured collection, which is why you are experiencing the issue now. 

[KateStone]

Hi Dan, thanks for replying! You pointed me in the right direction with this. I had deactivated the product grid and had several featured collections in its place. I did this bc. the "collections-all" view does not allow to separate the different kinds of bags and this made the shop look unstructured. I never thought this was the root of my problem though. I now activated it again and have accepted that this is the way it has to be.

Also, now the collections in the collection list from the home page, point to individual collections again. So your tip definitely has resolved the issue. Since it did not quite give me what I initially wanted, I put an additional section on the home page, so customers can now either go to "all" products or go to individual collections. That's not super elegant but much better than the limbo. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to modify the individual collection pages to add an additional section after the products. Like a button to "discover more" or even "go back".
It renders the individual collection a bit of a dead end and that's regarding selling - not so great. But anyways, thanks a lot!

[Kudosi-Carlos]

Hello @KateStone, 

What’s happening is that your theme is pointing every collection URL back to your single “all” template, so /collections/bikini-bags renders the same “Shop” page as /collections/all. That’s why you never “jump” to a specific section.

Here’s what you can do now, no coding required:

1. Use real collection pages.
In your Shopify Admin go to Products → Collections, click into one (e.g. “Bikini Bags”), then under Theme template (top right) switch from the collection-all template to the default collection template and save. Repeat for each collection. Now clicking the homepage list will take customers to each collection’s own page, not the “all” page.

2. Link directly to those pages.
Make sure your homepage “Collection List” block is using {{ collection.url }} for each button. That will point to /collections/bikini-bags, which now uses its own template and shows only that collection’s products.

If you really want the “jump to section” behavior on one long “Shop” page, you’ll need a developer to add anchor IDs to each featured‑collection section and manually link to /collections/all#bikini-bags. But switching to individual collection pages is the quickest no‑code fix.

[KateStone]

Hi Carlos, thank you so much for replying to my question. I understand your first section as to what was happening. Re your solution part 1. I have no option to switch there. It was on "default collection" and no other option was available. Re part 2. I was unsure to where you were referring here. To the code section? If so, it might have been over may head, I propably would not have been able to to implement that. If it was referring to the actual "Collection list" in my template customization view: I have no option to modifiy the button of the collection in the collection list. All I can do is choose a collection from a drop down. Those were all set correctly.

Re. my initial plan to have all products divided by sections which can be jumped to from the homepage collections list: thank you for the tip that I would need someone to program that specifially. I have only experience with squarespace and I couldn't imagine that something relatively basic like this, would be so difficult to achieve. If the client really wants it, I now know, that I'd need help from a 3rd party. Really appreciate the help on this topic!