How can I display a product description as a metafield?

Store Design

Topic summary

Core Issue:
A user wants to automatically display product descriptions inside an accordion/collapsible element without manually copying content into custom metafields for 800+ products.

Key Challenge:
The standard product description field cannot be directly called as a metafield using syntax like {{ product.metafields.description }}. While custom metafields work, they require manual data entry for each product.

Proposed Solutions:

  1. Native Theme Feature (pralinepanini):

    • Add a “description” block in the product template
    • Select “expandable content” as the display style
    • This creates an accordion-style display without custom code

  2. Custom Liquid Block (user96):

    • Add a custom liquid block through Shopify UI
    • Insert code for a collapsible row element
    • Replace placeholder text with {{ product.description }}

  3. Conditional Logic (BH005):

    • Create a collapsible block named “Description”
    • Edit main-product.liquid to add an if statement
    • Check if block heading equals “Description”, then inject {{ product.description }} automatically

Status:
Multiple users confirmed facing the same challenge. Solutions involve either theme customization or liquid template modifications rather than metafield automation.

Summarized with AI on November 11. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
1

Hi,

Is there a way to put product description as metafield ? I would like to display description in an accordion. I success to add metafields but i don’t find the right code to implement the product description.

Thanks so much for help

Jb from France

1 Like
2

@JB_from_france

yes please read this article and modification code

https://shopify.dev/api/liquid/objects/metafield

3

Hi,

Thank you for your prompt answer ! I already read this article and i already succeed to implement custom metafields in my profuct page, etc..

I just don’t find the right sequence to call description as metafield. I tried {{ product.metafields.product.description }}, {{ product.metafields.description }}, etc… But it doesn’t work.

I would like to automatically display the description of the viewed product in an accordion.

Thank you so much for your help !

JB from France

1 Like
4

@JB_from_france

your have create metafiled on option? please check this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPgZuk7Z0SY

5

Hi,

So i can’t display description as metafields automatically ? As vendor metafields or title metafields already displayable on the dawn theme ? I need to create custom metafields and copy/paste description of my +800 products to the custom metafields ?

There is really no way to display automatically the description of the product on a collapsible table on dawn theme ?

Thanks for your help !

JB from France

2 Likes
6

@JB_from_france

oh no its not possible make it automation show metafiles main function each one different text but current store product description show to all

7

hi JB, did you ever found the solution to displaying the product description inside an accordion?

2 Likes
8

@CarlosPinedo

can you please share store url

9

Hi! @JB_from_france

Were you able to find a solution to this?
I’m having the same struggle too.

2 Likes
10

@Cava

can you please share store url

11

https://www.fravshop.com/

1 Like
12

@Cava

thanks for url can you please share more details

13

I have just found a solution to this.

In the product template, click “add block” , then add the “description” block.

Once you have added this, click on it and it will show a few options for display style. Here you can select “expandable content - open” or “expandable content-closed”.

This displays it as a single accordion.

If you then add a separate block of “expandable content” straight after it, they will display as connected and look like one accordion.

Hope this helps someone!

1 Like
14

I solved this by adding custom liquid block to product template (through usual shopify UI), and then in custom liquid you add code for whatever block u want to achieve, I wanted collapsible row so I inspected collapsible row and presed copy element and put that into custom liquid (in the UI, not the code tab directly). Then I only had to replace line for text with product.description

2 Likes
15

Hey, trying to achieve the same thing. Can you show the code you used?

16

Hey, I was facing the same issue, I want to put the description of each product in collapsable block without re-writing them in metafields.

So I ve created a collapsable block and named it “Description”

After that went to the main-product.liquid and add if statement to check if the heading of the collapsable block is “Description” then put the product description already existing :

{%- when ‘collapsible_tab’ -%}

{% render 'icon-accordion', icon: block.settings.icon %}

{{ block.settings.heading | default: block.settings.page.title | escape }}

{% render 'icon-caret' %}
{% if block.settings.heading == 'Description' %} {{ product.description }} {% else %} {{ block.settings.content }} {{ block.settings.page.content }} {% endif%}

I hope it will helps.