Change the meta title and meta description on my main collections page

Technical Q&A
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Topic summary

A user seeks to modify the meta title and description specifically for their main collections page (/collections) on Shopify’s Prestige 2.0 theme, without affecting the homepage or individual collection pages.

Proposed Solutions:

• Liquid conditional check: Use {% if template == 'list-collections' %} to target only the collections list page and insert custom meta tags within this condition.

• Theme settings approach: Add a custom field to settings_schema.json that creates a theme settings option for collections meta description. Then modify theme.liquid to conditionally display this custom meta description when on the list-collections template, while preserving page-specific descriptions elsewhere.

Key Technical Notes:

  • Verify the correct template name in your theme (commonly 'list-collections')
  • The settings schema solution allows dynamic updates through the theme customizer without editing code repeatedly
  • One response references a related community discussion with multiple implementation examples

The thread provides code snippets for both approaches but doesn’t confirm which solution the original poster successfully implemented.

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Hi,

I have searched the forum and found this question asked in several different ways, but never found a solution on any of the threads.

Hi,

I am trying to change the meta title and meta description on my main collections page (Collections) – without changing anything on the homepage or any other collection.

Using Shopify 2.0 Prestige Theme

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Afwan

2

Hi @afwanfhaider ,

You can try using liquid code to check /collections

{% if template == 'list-collections' %}

{% else %}

{% endif %}

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Hope my solution works perfectly for you!

Best regards,

Oliver | PageFly

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Hi Afwan -

I had the same issue and I found this discussion that had several solutions.

https://community.shopify.com/c/technical-q-a/how-to-edit-the-meta-of-collections-page/m-p/1776435/highlight/true#M107216

I have implemented the following on my website using the Expanse theme from Shqipdonselmani

Check your theme for the correct reference to the collections list in your theme and modify it if needed to match your template name.

Hello guys,

I came up with a way around and a good solution

Add this code to settings_schema.json file
{
“name”: “Collections Meta”,
“settings”: [
{
“type”: “text”,
“label”: “Meta Description”,
“id”: “metadescriptioncollections”
}
]
},

It will create a section to the THEME SETTINGS for you to change it

And then on the theme.liquid file change this

{% if page_description %}

{% endif %}

to this

{%- if page_description -%}
{% if template == ‘list-collections’ %}

{% else %}

{%- endif -%}
{%- endif -%}

In this way we will be able to dynamically change the meta description for the collection page all the time without touching the code anymore