Is there a way to have the Dawn theme either
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Display my product tags so customers can select them as a filter (i.e. Apparel, Mugs, Blankets, etc.)
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Offer a drop-down menu with these tags
Old themes like Supply and Minimal offered tags.
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Hi @erinrado ,
With filter 2.0, it doesn’t support filter with tag, refer https://shopify.dev/themes/navigation-search/filtering
You can just filter with: Availability, Price, Product type, Vendor, Variant options, Metafields
If you want to filter tags, you need to remove filter 2.0 and use old filter: https://shopify.dev/themes/navigation-search/filtering/tag-filtering
Or you can install the app for filter: https://apps.shopify.com/search?q=collection%20filter
Hope it helps!
Actually, Jasmin from Theme Support had a great suggestion.
By using Metafields, I created 2 types of search filters:
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Product type - default metafield (shirts, blankets, mugs)
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Style - my custom metafield (celtic, labyrinth, pirate, medieval, renaissance)
This is actually better that the old tag sorting method because it gives customers multiple sorting options.
To create custom metafields, go to Settings/Metafields/Products and click the Add Definition button. Create a new metafield (I called mine Style) and select content type as Text (the button on the bottom).
The new metafield will appear at the bottom of every product page with a blank text field next to it. Type specific labels into the new text field. I have added “pirate”, “unicorn”, “medieval”, etc.
Finally, go to Online Store/Navigation and add your new metafield to the list of Collections and Filters.
When customers view your Collection Page, they will be able to sort by the new list of choices. For my store, they can search by Product type (shirts, blankets, mugs) which I enter into the Custom Product Type field on a Product Page, AND they can also search by Style.
As I said, this is much better than tagging alone.
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You dont need to downgrade your theme to the old version to have tags supported. You can use this flexible filter app to handle tags for you on any theme: https://apps.shopify.com/ultimate-search-and-filter-1. Filtering with tags in this app is easy to set up. give it a try!
I don’t understand why all these apps are so ridiculously overpriced. All of this stuff is SO easy in Wordpress (I’m a UX designer and have worked with Wordpress for over 15 years). Even if you decide to get additional software, you’d pay 10 bucks a year tops for something like this. And then I read this functionality was used to be there but was taken away in a newer version? Why?! I was hoping for a more customer friendly experience with Shopify, but I’m starting to dislike it more and more the longer I play around with it. I’m helping my sister build a webshop and she wanted to use Shopify, but I’m pretty sure I’ll continue to recommend Wordpress to my clients.
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I understand what you mean about WP vs Shopify. I can only think that
Shopify themes are expensive because they are specially written for the
Shopify platform, rather than being open-source.
I have a couple of WP sites, but I want to be behind the Shopify firewall
when it comes to e-commerce. I’ve had my WooCommerce hacked before, and I
just don’t want to deal with that again.
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I agree, keeping WP secure is a bit more work, but it’s doable with smart coding and consistent updates (which you’re supposed to be doing under EU law anyway..)
I’ve never had a security issue in 15 years, but I did deal with a lot of compatibility issues. I’d hoped at least that part would be better with Shopify, because you’d think writing and maintaining plugins for just one platform with limited updates would be much easier than for a super versatile platform that constantly changes and adapts. But sorting by tag is not worth $15/month. It’s a 15 minute job.
I can deal with the fact Shopify is less versatile. It’s a fair tradeoff in making shopkeeping more feasible for small businesses that don’t have tech on staff. But when it’s this expensive, what’s the point? I don’t want to have to tell my sis she’s going to need to pay high monthly fees for apps, because then she might as well hire a dev and use WP.
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Thanks for this. really helpful info.
it’s great that we can use metafields for filtering. Our collections pages are currently built via tags.
If I wanted to start using metafields for product listings and to get filters working it would be great if we could build collections based off those same metafields, but that doesn’t seem to be possible.
Does anyone know how to do that?
Hello,
I’ve followed your guide, and filters appear, when I try to filter something nothing happens.
I’ve installed search and filters from shopify to add the new one.
Thank you for the help
Is this still working for you? When I go to navigation, it doesn’t allow me to add the metafields (or anything) as an option for filtering. And there is an error message that takes me to a page that says “To use filters, you need to have an Online Store 2.0 theme installed.” which Dawn is.
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This is also what I see. I set Shopify up with the default theme and spent a considerable amount of time customising it. I don’t understand why the default theme doesn’t support such a basic feature. There must be a way to retrofit it with some code?