I have big struggles trying to figure out the “New” Category Metafields feature.
So far i can conclude the predefined field options are linked to the shopify´s taxonomy, great!
But where is the option to apply you own metafields as the predefined ones are not cutting it.
First there should be way more fields added for each category.
Also i see some of the predifined fields are wrong for the category ex.: in the Sunglasses category i have the option to add Fabric as one of the predifined fields. How often af sunglasses made out of fabric?
Anybody have any relevant information, shopify support has not been helpful.
It’s my understanding that the new taxonomy metafields are more category based and will help search engines as I think it matches up with Googles taxonomy. I would recommend you fill the pre-existing ones in as best you can and then rely on your product pages SEO to do the rest of the work like you would have before the new metafields came out.
For more information on the new metafields you can learn more here:
Yes, I have the same Issue. The concept of the product category metafields is great because right now we have product metafields for beans, accessoiries, grinders and espresso machines. So for employees it’s always hard to create new products and choose the right metafields. With product category metafields it would be much easier to only display the relevant metafields for a new coffee or machine separately.
But I couldn’t find out how to create new product category metafields. The acual prepared product category metafields are mostly useless as you said @AlexWS . The support couldn’t help me really. Anyone any advice on that?
I’m here searching for exactly the same thing as our product catalogue encompasses SO many product types
I currently have a lot of standard product metafields named like:
BICYCLES | Number of Gears
BICYCLES | Suspension
CHRISTMAS | Character Type
VEHICLES | Vehicle Type Suitability
To help staff find the right metafields but they have to trawl through pages and pages, and invariably miss them; when these are used for filtering then a missing entry deletes the product from the search refinement
So yes, the option to add our own Category Metafields so that the right set of options comes up on product entry, would make life much much easier.
“Just use normal metafields” is good advice for someone running a niche store, say, selling only picture frames - but if you sell picture frames, golf clubs and pet food, then all are quite different. Multiply that by 20 more types of product and admin soon becomes messy.
It’s one thing (possibly the ONLY thing) I miss from migrating to Shopify from Magento which had attributes (metafields) in attribute sets (like category metafields)
Such a feature would take away about the only thing where Magento beats Shopify ← says that loudly for Shopify developers looking for new features