How can I sort products using filters in the Impulse theme on Shopify?

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Moving from WIX to Shopify and been smooth so far but really struggling with filters in shopify, feels very complex.

I have 700 products I want to sort into various buckets, I have set up collections but ideally want the customer to be able to sort those products within the collection (shape, size, colours etc).

Using the Impulse theme, tags are disabled (lots of old advice and videos about tags online. not now relevant which had me very confused) and not much on using metafields which seems the future for shopify but incredibly hard to use and only one short video by the theme developers.

Appears users have no ability to bulk edit metafields in shopify (like you could with tags?) without an app so your stuck editing products one by one?

To cap it all off the impulse theme has a message it doesn’t support filtering. Is this a bug? Surely Impulse v5.2.0 supports filtering?

So I am stuck, no tags or filters/metadata support through impulse? How do I filter lots of products using this theme easiliy?

Any advice would be really appreciated x

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Theme Features

Merchants experiencing an issue with a theme not exposing shopify functionality should always check that themes feature list, the developers documentation , or directly contact the themes developers

Most likely you just need to turn it on https://archetypethemes.co/blogs/impulse/how-can-i-enable-product-filtering

Bulk Editing Metafield Definitions> Appears users have no ability to bulk edit metafields in shopify (like you could with tags?) without an app so your stuck editing products one by one?

The ability is there, there’s just no UI for it. This can be done by manually editing the bulk editor url inserting the metafield namespace and key i.e. metafields.my_fields.country_of_origin

https://shopify.com/admin/bulk?resource_name=Product&edit=metafields.my_fields.country_of_origin*%3Astring*%2Cvariants.sku&show=&ids= 123456%2C654321

For bulk editing sanity you will be much better off using a productivity spreadsheet app like ez-exporter, matrifixy, or mixtable.

Or making a small utility somehow to generate the proper bulk editor urls.

Theme Customizations

For themes that infact have no filtering functionality it can be added through advanced theme customizations

https://shopify.dev/themes/navigation-search/filtering

There is also example code for adding tag based collection urls as well

https://shopify.dev/themes/navigation-search/filtering/tag-filtering

Platform Migration and new features> Moving from WIX to Shopify and been smooth so far but really struggling with filters in shopify, feels very complex.

One is a simple dragndrop website builder the other a full blown ecommerce platform, any expectation of simplicity by comparing the two or hope of direct knowledge transfer to avoid complexity is a trap.

Faceted filtering and metafield definitions are relatively new this year so everything is in transitory flux throughout the shopify ecosystem.

This means docs, communal knowledge, theme features , apps etc may be hard to navigate for anyone not able to do deep research or get professional guidance.

So when your new, or when things do not go smooth because of unclear docs, that kinda makes it seem like it’s for advanced users on the whole; this is normal especially when your trying to combine such new features especially more after moving to a new platform.

But once your setup and running the complexity tapers off moreso if you make your own business process documentation.