How can I design a filterable, text-heavy page on Shopify?

Store Design

Topic summary

Need to build filterable, text-heavy pages (authors, illustrators, lexicon) for a magazine moving from Cargo to Shopify before issue 2. Each issue adds ~50 entries per page, so scalable, tag-based filtering is required.

Considered approaches: making each entry a taggable blog post, but ~150 posts per issue is tedious. Using section blocks is constrained by Shopify’s ~16-block limit per section and unclear per-block tagging (possibly via schema classes).

A reply recommends using the Blockparty Notion Page Builder app to avoid custom code by authoring in Notion and syncing to Shopify. Suggested workflow:

  • Create a Notion page per issue and subpages for each entry.
  • Add tags in Notion, then use filtered gallery/list views.
  • Embed the Notion issue page on Shopify via Blockparty.
    A demo link is provided, and benefits cited include client-friendly editing, collaboration, and auto-sync.

No decision or implementation details from the requester yet; the thread remains open with this app-based solution as the main suggestion.

Summarized with AI on February 2. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi,

Sorry if this isn’t the correct place to post this but I have a question about designing a text-heavy page in a way that’s filterable.

I have a client with a magazine store, currently on Cargo. With each issue they add all of the authors, illustrators and technical terms used on to an author list, an illustrator list and a lexicon page respectively. It’s around 50 entries on each page per issue. Currently they’re on issue 1, and each page is done purely with regular text. They want me to switch the site over to Shopify before issue 2 later this year, but they also want the ability to filter those pages with tags before they get out of control.

I know each entry could be a blog post that is tag-able, but doing ~150 blog posts per issue could get tedious quickly. I thought about having each page as a block section but there’s a limit of 16 blocks per section and I’m also not sure how you could tag each block (I guess by adding an option to add classes in the schema to each block and filter that way?!?).

As you might have gathered I’m pretty new to Shopify dev and this will be the first theme I’ve designed outside of tutorial contexts, so forgive me if I’m missing something obvious here.

Thanks

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Hi @JonoCES ,

I know you mentioned building something custom, but I recently launched an app that can help you accomplish advanced content pages like this without any complex setup or custom code. The app is called Blockparty Notion Page Builder and it allows you to create Shopify storefront pages using Notion.

Using Blockparty you can create what you are looking for in a few steps:

  1. Create a Notion page for each magazine issue and subpages for each entry
  2. Add tags to each entry subpage using Notion’s build in tagging system
  3. Create a filtered Notion gallery view or list view by specific tags
  4. Display each Notion magazine issue page on your store using Blockparty

I’ve created a simplified demo of the above using Blockparty on a demo store which you can take a look at here: https://party-2084.myshopify.com/a/pages/first-issue

As an added benefit, all page content (text, images, etc) lives in Notion so your client can edit pages directly using the Notion editor and make use of Notion’s powerful real-time collaboration features. After a page is synced to your store using Blockparty, any changes made in Notion will automatically be reflected on your store page.

If interested, feel free to send me a DM or message me at the email in my signature and I can help you set this up on your store.

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