I am creating a new theme for my website, switching over to Shopify 2.0. I’ve learned that filters are now dictated off metafields instead of tags. I have a big website and would like to check if there is anyway that i could bulk edit and add metafields to my products, instead of going through them one by one and adding a metafield to each product. Anyone able to help me? Thanks
please note that i have not been utilising metafield previously, hence, all of my products do not have any metafields tagged to them previously
If you only have a small amount of tags you could go through, filter for products with a tag, and then bulk update the metafields with their new value.
If you have a lot of different tags you could also use the app to:
Export the products’ handles and tags to a spreadsheet
Add a new column to that spreadsheet with the value for the metafield
Upload the new spreadsheet to the app to update the metafields
Hopefully this helps out, if you have any follow up questions just let me know.
@Chris_Chan1 it’s also worth saying that whilst Shopify only filter with metafields as native functionality there are loads of apps that allow you to retain tag based filtering. we use ‘Product Filter & Search’ and that works fine for us.
This sounds promising. We also need to do a lot of editing of metafields. I’d like to test this out on my dev store. do you know if the app is free on dev stores. I don’t really want to pay for acceptance testing, but if successful would move it over to live to do our full collection.
Looks like we’ll have to figure this out ourselves.
The solution described at the link below (How to bulk edit product metafields within the Shopify dashboard) added the Google Metafield Columns to the bulk edit table. But the data input into those fields didn’t carry over to the individual variants. I did remove two unused apps today to try and speed up my load time, so that might be the issue. Can anyone help me understand why info added to bulk edit this way wouldn’t carry over to the products?
