Duplicating the Collection Description Editor in Shopify

Topic summary

Goal: add a second description area to collection pages, positioned below the products, while keeping the default description at the top.

Current solution proposed: use a collection metafield and render it in the theme.

  • Create metafield: Settings → Custom Data → Collections → Add definition; choose “Multi-line Text,” name it (e.g., collection_description_2), and save.
  • Render in theme: Online Store → Themes → Edit code; in the collection template, insert {{ collection.metafields.custom.collection_description_2 }} after the product grid/pagination (example file: main-collection-product-grid.liquid).
  • Populate content: Products → Collections → open a collection; fill the new metafield value at the bottom and save.

Key terms: “Metafields” are custom fields you add to objects (like collections) in Shopify; “Liquid” is Shopify’s templating language; “pagination section” refers to the part of the template that displays page navigation after products.

Attachments: multiple screenshots illustrating each step and the code placement are central to the guidance.

Open question: a participant without the file main-collection-product-grid.liquid asked how to proceed; the helper requested the theme name to give theme-specific instructions. Resolution pending.

Summarized with AI on December 21. AI used: gpt-5.

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