Hello! how can I define the Color of a simple product in 2.0? In the old version it was possible to do this by using a tag (depending on the theme). Now it is only possible to filter the colors of my products with color variants. For example: black dress simple product, T-Shirt blue and red variant…

Hello! I just had a long support chat with Shopify, and I am very proud, that the support and I found a solution together. I wanted to share with you what we found out, since you are facing the same problem. You can select only one color per product. But the support told me, he found out, that many…

Same problem I am facing and thought there will be an easy answer on the community forum. :disappointed_face:

I think this could be easily solved by Shopify. The Color could be treated like a simple product information. Similar to price information. And with an general switch whether you want to display the color swatch for simple products (without variants) on your productsite or not. But I could be totall…

Vicky, you are an angel :slightly_smiling_face: I followed your instructions and it actually works !! have a look at this collection page of my website! WOW! https://genejack.com/collections/bags I will even start adding more metafields for styles, fitting..etc Thank you so much, you made my day…

I tried to implement the same. But I am not the getting png images on filter view. Please help me. Thanks

Let’s take example of color ‘red’ Step1: Create a file for red color swatch, file name Red, file format png, file size 32 x32 px Step2: Settings > Files: upload the file Step3: Settings > Metafields > Products > Add Definition Name: Color > Select content type Text > Single Line text > Save Ste…

Thank you so much for your immediate response. Hats off. Did as per your steps: Geting color name but not PNG. https://chettinad-thari.myshopify.com/collections/chettinad-cotton-sarees Please help me.

I think your theme might need an additional step for complex colors :s To narrow down the issue, why dont you try first straightforward color such as ‘Blue’? if this works then probably complex swatches could be looked at separately For standard colors I didnt face any issues, for complex colors I…

Thank you so much. Now it is working fine. One more request. Is it any way to remove colour name like this https://genejack.com/collections/bags Thanks

How can I filter by product color in version 2.0 without using variants?

Store Design

Mahalakshmi February 10, 2022, 9:14am 6

I have seen your website. Wonderful to see color swatches.

I tried to implement the same. But I am not getting png images on filter view.

Please help me.

Thanks

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How can I filter by product color in version 2.0 without using variants?

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