Change url structure collections page and product page (trade theme)

Store Design
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Topic summary

A user seeks to restructure URLs for collections and products in their Shopify store (Trade theme) to create hierarchical paths. They want collection URLs to reflect parent/child relationships (e.g., /collections/jbl/speakers instead of /collections/jbl-speakers) and product URLs to include the full collection path (e.g., /collections/jbl/speakers/products/product-name).

Proposed Solution:

  • A responder suggests using product tags to create filtered collection URLs (e.g., /collections/collection-name/tag-name)
  • For products, the format /collections/collection-name/products/product-name is achievable
  • This approach requires manual tagging of products and doesn’t automatically create hierarchical structures

Key Issues Identified:

  • The tag-based method isn’t automatic and requires manual maintenance
  • Tags appear in metadata, raising SEO concerns
  • Navigation menus don’t automatically reflect these URL structures
  • The solution lacks clear backend configuration rules

Outcome:
The original poster deemed the tag-based approach unsustainable from both workflow and SEO perspectives, reverting to a previous theme version. A YouTube tutorial link was shared as an alternative resource. The discussion remains unresolved regarding a scalable solution for hierarchical URL structures in Shopify.

Summarized with AI on November 2. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hi,

this already better than it’s right now. How do you do this? And how does it work with tags? Since you don’t want to have all the tags in url

ex collection

Ex: https://theonlinecollective.nl/collections/growing-concepts-terrariums/Terrarium

if i understand correct Terrarium is the tag. But where is growing-concepts-terrariums coming from? Just to understand how it’s built