Help! I deleted Snippets and now my product descriptions are no longer visible

Store Design

Topic summary

Issue: After uninstalling the Smart Tabs app, the user deleted several related snippets (including ones with “product description” and “tabs” in the name). Product descriptions disappeared, and a Liquid error shows: missing snippet “product-description-tabs.liquid” referenced in main-product.liquid (line 226).

Context: “Snippets” are reusable partial templates in Shopify’s Liquid (templating language). The missing snippet likely came from the app and wasn’t in the original theme download.

Proposed solutions:

  • Restore the missing snippet: Copy product-description-tabs.liquid back into the Snippets folder from the original theme (or a backup that includes the app’s snippet).
  • Remove the reference: Edit Online Store → Theme → Edit code → main-product.liquid, search for and remove {% render ‘product-description-tabs’ %} or {% include ‘product-description-tabs’ %} so Liquid no longer calls a non-existent snippet.

Status: No confirmation of fix yet; resolution pending.

Summarized with AI on February 19. AI used: gpt-5.
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Help! I recently added the Smart Tabs App to my products pages and then went on to delete that app. After looking through the code I thought there were several snippets form the app remaining and I deleted them. Now my products are missing descriptions and it states “Liquid error (sections/main-product.liquid line 226): Could not find asset snippets/product-description-tabs.liquid”

Can someone help with this? I had previously dowloaded my theme file but those snippets were not on there.

I deleted 3 separate snippets all with "product descriptions "and “tabs” in the name.

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@lisabach Hello you need copy the product-description-tabs.liquid in “snippets” from original theme if need help free to ask me.

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Hi @lisabach ,

You can follow the instruction below:

  1. Go to Online Store->Theme->Edit code
  2. Find “main-product.liquid” file → Search “product-description-tabs” and remove it.

The code to remove is of the form {% render ‘product-description-tabs’ %} or {% include ‘product-description-tabs’ %}

If you feel like my answer is helpful, please mark it as a SOLUTION. Let me know if you have any further questions.