How can I add more than 50 products to the featured collection block?

Topic summary

Goal: Display more than 50 products in the Featured collection section on a Shopify theme (Dawn). Attempts to raise the limit (e.g., to 200 in settings.schema or removing limit) still show only 50, while collection pages can show 200.

Key details:

  • Collection pages: Increasing pagination in main-collection-product-grid works (200 products show). “Paginate” in Liquid controls page size for listings.
  • Featured collection section: Does not use paginate; limit appears controlled by a setting (products_to_show). Despite schema edits, display remains capped at 50.

Proposed solution:

  • Edit sections/featured-collection.liquid to increase the “products_to_show” range max from 12 to 200, then set the desired count in Online Store > Themes > Customize > Home Page.
  • Code snippets and screenshots are central to the suggested fix.

Additional request:

  • Another participant needs 100 products on a Simple theme collection page (Theme 1.0) but does not find paginate or max settings in code.

Status:

  • Featured collection fix is suggested (increase products_to_show max and configure in Customize), but no confirmation it bypasses the 50 cap.
  • Simple theme collection page change remains unresolved; further guidance on where to implement paginate/limits is needed.
Summarized with AI on January 16. AI used: gpt-5.

I need to be able to show all products in the featured collection block, however, I am unable to get any products past 50 to appear in the featured collection. I am comfortable writing custom .liquid and have tried increasing the :limit for products in the featured collection to 200, in the settings.schema, I have also tried removing the limit all together or setting it to nil. None of this has worked and I am stuck with only 50 products in the collection.

Please advise!

Thanks you

@ferd Firstly can the community have a look at your store

@HarveyFinn Sure, here is the preview environment, i have it set to show 200 products in the homepage featured collection grid, however, it only shows 50.

https://store.mikeshinoda.com/?_ab=0&_fd=0&_sc=1&preview_theme_id=122139410534

Hello there,

From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.

Find the theme you want to edit, click the … button to open the actions menu, and then click Edit code.

In the Sections directory, click collection-template.liquid.

In the code editor, find the following code:

{% paginate collection.products by 9 %} or {% paginate collection.products by limit %}

and changes value limit :- 200

Yes, I do not have collection-template.liquid in my theme sections as I am using the Dawn theme. However, I did increase the main-collection-product-grid.liquid to paginate 200 max products. It’s working on collection pages, I see 200 products on those collection pages. However, I still only 50 items on the featured collection section. The liquid code for featured collections is different and does not include the paginate code.

@ZestardTech Any idea how to solve this?

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@ZestardTech @HarveyFinn Anyone know how to do this for the simple theme? We need 100 on one of the pages

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Hello @ferd

The Featured collection displays more than 12 products.

In your Shopify Admin, go to Online Store > Themes > Actions > Edit Code.
Find ‘sections > featured-collection.liquid’ and search for ‘products_to_show’.

Remove this code:

{
"type": "range",
"id": "products_to_show",
"min": 2,
"max": 12,
"step": 1,
"default": 4,
"label": "t:sections.featured-collection.settings.products_to_show.label"
},

Screenshot: Link to Screenshot

and replace it with this code:

{
"type": "range",
"id": "products_to_show",
"min": 2,
"max": 200,
"step": 2,
"default": 4,
"label": "t:sections.featured-collection.settings.products_to_show.label"
},

Screenshot: Link to Screenshot

To adjust the limit, customize as follows:

In your Shopify Admin, go to Online Store > Themes > Customize > Home Page.

Screenshot: Link to Screenshot

Hello @SarahMMoore1

The Featured collection displays more than 12 products.

In your Shopify Admin, go to Online Store > Themes > Actions > Edit Code.
Find ‘sections > featured-collection.liquid’ and search for ‘products_to_show’.

Remove this code:

{
"type": "range",
"id": "products_to_show",
"min": 2,
"max": 12,
"step": 1,
"default": 4,
"label": "t:sections.featured-collection.settings.products_to_show.label"
},

Screenshot: Link to Screenshot

and replace it with this code:

{
"type": "range",
"id": "products_to_show",
"min": 2,
"max": 200,
"step": 2,
"default": 4,
"label": "t:sections.featured-collection.settings.products_to_show.label"
},

Screenshot: Link to Screenshot

To adjust the limit, customize as follows:

In your Shopify Admin, go to Online Store > Themes > Customize > Home Page.

Screenshot: Link to Screenshot

Sorry I meant for a collection page not the featured page. There isn’t anything in our code that says max or paginate - were on 1.0 using the simple theme