The original poster wants to redirect /collections to /collections/all because they don’t want visitors accessing the collections overview page, which they consider redundant and don’t want to style.
Initial Misunderstanding:
Early responses suggested changing navigation links, but this doesn’t prevent direct URL access or search engine indexing of the unwanted page.
Working Solutions:
Several JavaScript-based redirects were proposed and confirmed working:
theme.liquid (before </body>) checking if window.location.pathname matches /collections or /collections/ and redirecting accordingly/collections and /products (with/without trailing slashes) to desired destinationsKey Limitation:
Shopify’s built-in redirect feature doesn’t work for default pages like /collections, requiring JavaScript workarounds.
SEO Note:
While JavaScript redirects aren’t true 301s, Google Search respects them as permanent redirects, though indexing updates may take several days.
Hi,
Just wondering if it is possible to do this…
There aren’t many products on the site I’m working on, so within the main navigation the ‘STORE’ links to /collections/all.
The problem is that if someone visits mysite.com/collections - it takes them to an overview of all of the collections which I don’t want.
Is there a way to bypass this with redirects?
Thanks
Hey, @cwilson
If you want your ‘STORE’ to link to all of the products available on your store as opposed to all of the collections on your store, you can make this change within your navigation settings.
By going to online store > navigation > click on the menu you want to edit > click the edit button beside menu item you want to edit >change the link to ‘All Products’. As shown below:
Once you do that, be sure to save your changes. If there is anything else I can help you with, please let me know.
Hi Dirk,
Thanks, but that isn’t quite what I was looking for. Even though the navigation bar links to ‘All Products’ if a visitor was to navigate to www.mysite.com/collections/ they would still see a page that I don’t want them to see.
I have no need for the page, so, therefore, do not want to spend time having to style it when it is redundant.
Is there a way that I can redirect all traffic that tries to reach /collections/ ?
Thanks
Did you ever get an answer to this? Im not sure why all the Shopify members think a solution is to hide the links…people can still access the page…google can still index them…
Unfortunately not…
Hi, a bit late to the party 
I had the same request from a client. The Shopify redirects don’t seem to work with some key pages, like the /collections one.
I made it work by adding a JavaScript redirect in the list-collections.liquid template file in my theme:
Hope this helps.
Yes, the following instructions will work for any theme.
Whenever the user lands on a URL ending specifically with “collections” they will be redirected to “collections/all”.
Kind regards,
Diego
Hi Diego, this solution definitely helps when someone lands on /collections. However, it does not help when someone adds the ‘/’ at the end, e.g., /collections/
Hey @diego_ezfy , thank you for this. Do you have a solution for what happens when the client puts a / on the end? Your solution works for ABC.com/collections but not ABC.com/collections/
Thank you. Each of our collections represent products that are exclusive for a certain customer. We don’t want people to get in a situation where they can see all of our collections. That would be bad.
Do something like following in your theme.liquid by adding a block containing following,
// redirect '/collections' or '/collections/' or '/products' or '/products/' to '/pages/our-product-range'
// Shopify navigation redirects won't work for these urls as they are Shopify default urls not controlled by the theme
if (window.location.pathname === '/collections' || window.location.pathname === '/collections/' || window.location.pathname === '/products' || window.location.pathname === '/products/') {
window.location.href = '/pages/our-product-range';
}
In terms of SEO, before anyone asks,
Javascript Redirection is not a real 301 as it happens on client side but fortunately indexing will respect this (ref:Redirects and Google Search | Google Search Central | Documentation | Google Developers see lower table saying Permanent)
However it may take a few days to see data propagated on search result page on google
Alex, where exactly would you add the script?
I tried adding at the end or before {% endschema %} of my collection-list.liquid or to list-collections.json - doesn’t work, it won’t redirect.
Thanks!
Add the following script in the theme.liquid file before
I tried this and it worked for me.
First, create a new collection and name it “all”. Add any or all of the products you want to show.
Second, add this code to your theme.liquid file, right after the tag:
{% if request.path == '/collections' %}
{% endif %}
That’s it. Now when someone goes to mysite.com/collections, they will see mysite.com/collections/all
This code solved everything for me:
It redirects /products, /products/, /collections, and /collections/ to /collections/all
This worked for me, except I didn’t even need to add any code to the theme.liquid file for my theme.
By naming a collection as “all” it over wrote Shopify’s default “all” collection. Now instead of all the products showing if I user goes to the top level of the collections, it shows the products that I want to show.
OK, thanks! But that didn’t work for me. I had to do it as I described above. Weird, that some stuff works for some sites, and not others … have seen that with other stuff, too …
Thank you! This solved it for me and also corrected other work arounds that I found/tested.