Hello, I am currently customising the Dwell theme to replace the legacy theme Debut, but there is no product tag filter available - i.e. when a customer goes to a collection such as clothing and can filter by selecting: ‘all products’ ‘jumpers’ ‘shoes’ etc.
Contacted Shopify support for help, but they say the product tag filter is not included in the theme - advising to seek help here or shopify partners. Is there a way to add product tag to the filter? I’ve attached a screenshot of what my shop currently under the debut theme has, and another screenshot of what dwell with no product tag filter.
I do not want to download an app just for this.
Thank you in advance for any help/advice
Modern theme use storefront filtering(~faceted filtering).
Converting tags to metafields can be the sanest path.
Also see the shopify search and discovery app.
Otherwise it’s an advanced theme customization to add a filtering system to a theme without that type of filtering.
That may or may not integrate with the other filtering based on how things are organized or business logic etc etc etc.
Reach out if your a merchant that actually needs this with an actual budget.
There’s also looking for more featureful search apps/services
Hi there!
Unfortunately the Dwell theme doesn’t ship with a tag based filter like the old Debut theme did. In Online Store 2.0, product filtering is controlled by Shopify rather than the theme itself. You have a couple of options to expose tag filters:
Use Shopify’s Search & Discovery app: This free app allows you to choose which filter options appear on your collection pages. You can enable a filter for product tags so customers can narrow down collections by tag. Once installed, open the app, go to Filters and turn on Product tags. Then return to your theme editor and ensure the collection filter block is enabled.
Custom code: If you prefer to build your own filter, you can edit the collection template and insert a tag filter. For example, within the main-collection-product-grid or collection.json file you can loop over the collection’s tags and output links that apply a ?filter.v.tags=yourtag query parameter. This requires Liquid and CSS changes to match the style of your theme.
Shopify has intentionally moved away from the old tag filter in Debut; using the Search & Discovery app is the most future‑proof solution and doesn’t require third‑party apps. Hope this helps!
As @PaulNewton mentioned, modern themes use Storefront filtering.
To configure this functionality, you need to use the free Shopify app Search and Discovery
This is where you can add “tag” as a filter parameter.
Modern filtering is much more flexible then the old approach, moving your data from tags to metafields will make a lot of sense as you’d be able to implement multi-faceted filtering this way (you can’t with tags).
Your screenshot suggest that this filtering is by the product type – now you can add “product type” as filter criteria directly without the need to duplicate them as tags.
Hello Tim, thank you for your reply and advice. I downloaded the search & discovery app, but for some reason I cannot add the ‘tag’ filter option (see screenshot). I was able to add the ‘product type’ filter - but I don’t want product type (even if it’s a smarter approach as you highlight) - building the shop over the years, I concentrated on tags - sometimes not even filling out the ‘product type’ - so many products have not been included in product type and therefore won’t show up in search. Until I can get around to optimising all filter options for all products, the tag filter is the best way forward.
When trying to add a tag filter - I put ‘tag’ in “select source”, but it rendered no results. How or where do I locate the tag filter to add it? Thank you in advance for any guidance you can give.
There are ways to move your data from tags to product types or metafields, can be done with free Flow app or with specialized apps from store.
I too remember times when tags were the only way to filter, faceting was done by prepending category prefixes to tags and many themes supported this, but most of them migrated to supporting Search and Discovery…
