How to edit the meta of collections page?

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

Issue Identified:
Shopify auto-generates a /collections page that inherits the homepage’s meta description, creating SEO duplicate content errors. This page isn’t accessible through the dashboard for direct editing.

Primary Solution (theme.liquid editing):
Multiple users confirmed success by modifying the theme.liquid file (or doc-head-core.liquid in some themes):

  • Locate the existing meta description code block
  • Add conditional logic to target the collections list template
  • Insert custom meta description for that specific page

Critical Implementation Details:

  • Template name varies by theme: 'list-collections', 'collection-list', or check your templates folder for the exact filename
  • Some users needed to use request.path == '/collections' instead of template matching
  • One contributor provided a dynamic solution using settings_schema.json to create a theme settings field, avoiding hard-coded values

Ongoing Challenges:

  • Solution doesn’t work universally; success depends on theme structure
  • Some users report missing H1 headings after implementation
  • Open Graph and Twitter meta descriptions remain unresolved for some
  • Multiple participants express frustration that Shopify doesn’t provide a native dashboard solution for this common SEO issue

Status: Partial resolution with workarounds; no official Shopify fix announced.

Summarized with AI on October 30. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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I needed to add the code into Doc-head-core.liquid, but you might need to add the code somewhere else, like theme.liquid

This is the top of my theme.liquid - and this line ( {%- render ‘doc-head-core’ -%} ) is how I knew I needed to change doc-head-core.liquid:

{%- liquid
assign rtl_langs = ‘ar,arc,dv,fa,ha,he,khw,ks,ku,ps,ur,yi’ | split: ‘,’
assign current_lang = localization.language.iso_code | split: ‘-’ | first
if rtl_langs contains current_lang
assign lang_dir = ‘rtl’
else
assign lang_dir = ‘ltr’
endif
-%}

**{%- render 'doc-head-core' -%}** {%- render 'doc-head-social' -%}

What code do you have in your of theme.liquid ?