My shops /collections -page only display 1000 collections

Shopify Plus

Topic summary

A Shopify Plus store is experiencing a limitation where the /collections page displays only 1,000 collections, despite having more.

Issue Details:

  • Both the standard collections page and liquid code using {% for collection in collections %} are capped at 1,000 items
  • The user cannot find documentation on how to modify or bypass this limit

Proposed Solution:

  • Use Shopify’s {% paginate %} tag to handle collections beyond the 1,000-item threshold
  • Implementation involves wrapping the collection loop with pagination logic and including default pagination controls

Status: The discussion remains open with one technical workaround suggested but no confirmation of whether this resolves the underlying 1,000-collection display limit.

Summarized with AI on November 14. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
1

On a shop, you can go to your shopurl/collections to display all your collections. The problem is, this shop have a lot of collections, and that page seems to only show 1000 collections.

Also this shows only 1000 collections

{% for collection in collections %}
  {{- collection.title | link_to: collection.url }}<br />
{% endfor %}

I can’t find anything in the documentation or on this forum on where to possibly change that limit. Is it possible?

2

you need to use paginate

{% paginate collections by 1000 -%}
  {% for collection in collections -%}
    {{ collection.title | link_to: collection.url }}
  {%- endfor %}

  {{- paginate | default_pagination }}
{%- endpaginate %}