Liquid error: Could not find asset snippets/load-metafields.liquid

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

A Shopify theme is throwing an error because it’s attempting to load a file (snippets/load-metafields.liquid) that doesn’t exist in the theme files.

Proposed Solutions:

  • Remove the reference: Locate and delete the line calling this missing file from theme.liquid
  • Step-by-step fix:
    1. Navigate to Online store > Themes > Edit code > theme.liquid
    2. Use Ctrl + F to search for the filename
    3. Remove the line containing {% include 'filename' %}

Alternative: Use a custom CSS app to address the issue (first task is free)

Status: The thread appears ongoing, with one user indicating they don’t have the problematic code in their theme, suggesting variations in how this error manifests across different setups.

Summarized with AI on November 23. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hey,

This error suddely popped off. Can someone please help me fix it.

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Most likely you would have to recover the code for that file in theme or remove the reference to that file.

Checkout this app, you can create a task here to fix this issue - https://apps.shopify.com/custom-css-plus

First task is free of cost.

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This is PageFly - Free Landing Page Builder.

This error is showing because of your theme is trying to access to the file name : Snippets/Load-Metafields.Liquid

But that file is not exist in the theme.

To fix this you can go to theme.liquid and completely remove that line. You can follow my instruction below:

Step1: Online store > Themes > Edit code > theme.liquid

Step2: Ctrl + F or open search tool and search the file name. That should be like {% include ‘filename’ %}

Step3: Remove that line

Hope this can help you solve the issue

Best regards,

PageFly

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Thank you!!

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I havent this code