How can I create a subcollection with a specific address in Shopify?

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Hello guys,

I need some advice on the sub-collections I want to create.

I have a collection for example “furniture”. I want to create another collection “wood” with a specific url-address like “/collections/furniture/wood”.

So, the question is: how to create it in Shopify?

Thank you.

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Hey @TQH

If you create a collection called “furniture” (with the URL being “/collections/furniture”) then you can just tag the respective products within it, with the product tag “Wood” and then your URL that you wanted “/collections/furniture/wood” will work.

Anything after “/furniture/” is just a tag filter for within that collection. So you wouldn’t actually have to make a 2nd completely separate collection – you can just filter the respective products (by product tags) from within that collection.

If you have a product tag that includes spaces, they’ll just be replaced with dashes. For example, if you had “TV Stands” as the tag, then the URL would end up looking like this: “/collections/furniture/tv-stands”.

TLDR - Format for links are like this:

“/collections/collection-name-goes-here/product-tag-goes-here/”

Here’s how to add product tags to products (in case you don’t know how):

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/shopify-admin/productivity-tools/using-tags

Hope the above helps! :slightly_smiling_face:

Cheers,

Stephen

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Thank you for your response.

But I’m looking for a little bit different. I need to create a separate collection with the address I mentioned before because I want to create a description for that collection, and it should be displayed on that page. It’s for SEO.

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I hope this post is allowed - admins please remove if not

My app, SEO Manager, has the ability to control the meta information for collection tags (sub collections). Its the only app that I know that offers this - https://apps.shopify.com/seo-meta-manager

Please let me know if you have any question about it

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You wouldn’t be able to have that exact URL then.

Your other option would be to create a collection for your Wood Products, where the URL would end up being “/collections/wood” … and then you can have your titles/descriptions for SEO purposes.

And then in the navigation of your site, you can do a dropdown menu, to show the “Wood” collection, under your “Furniture” collection.

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Hey Josh,
does your plugin also allow creating custom descriptions for collection tag pages?
BTW is there any way to DM you?

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Hi @TQH

If you’re still looking for a breadcrumb solution — especially one that works well with nested or custom collections — you might want to try our app FDL Breadcrumbs & Collections.

It lets you create breadcrumbs and sub-collections visually with drag-and-drop, no code needed. Works well for large catalogs too.

Hope this helps!