I’m looking at upgrading to Shopify 2.0, specifically the Dawn theme - But my store is set up in a weird way.
Each of my collections is either a product type (automatically generated) or focused on a design with multiple products (manually created). I then had the design collections sorted into ‘themes’ by using the navigation menu trick to create listings of collections (or pages).
I don’t know if this is feasible, but I’m looking to create two custom sections:
- Dynamic Collection Listing
My thought is I could create a collection metafield where I specify what ‘theme’ each design belongs in, and then have a collection list section that doesn’t require me to manually add each collection, but would instead list every collection that was tagged with that theme metafield, in order of newest to oldest as default sorting.
I don’t want to use the current section because it a) requires me to manually update it everytime I add a new collection, and b) it has a limit on how many blocks are shown. I’m fine with there being a limit, but a pagination option like the default collections page would be better.
- Page Listing As Collections
Because I use pages to group designs that are themed together, I’m wondering if there’s a way to create a similar section to ‘collection list’ that would allow me to manually add pages into a grid so they look like collections. I think this might be possible using metafields?
I’ve been searching around and I’m just not familiar enough with Shopify’s 2.0 code structure, and I’m not finding helpful documentation or support videos that explain it in a way I understand it. Suggestions are greatly appreciated.