Same featured products shows up on every page

Store Design
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Topic summary

Main issue: Adding a Featured products section causes the same items to appear on all collection pages in a Shopify (Dawn) store.

Cause: Shopify uses shared templates. Section settings are saved per template, so all collections using the same template show identical featured products.

Proposed solutions:

  • Create a unique template per collection to isolate section settings. Effective but not scalable if you have many collections.
  • Use a page builder app (e.g., PageFly) to design distinct pages with different featured products.
  • Use collection metafields to store each collection’s featured products and render them in the collection template or a Custom Liquid block.

Definitions:

  • Metafields: custom fields you attach to objects (e.g., collections) to store extra data.
  • Liquid: Shopify’s templating language for themes.

Requests from OP: Wants to keep Dawn and asks how to create per-collection templates and how to implement the metafield approach; asks for a how-to.

Status: Unresolved. No step-by-step instructions yet; next action is providing implementation details for alternate templates or metafields in Dawn.

Summarized with AI on January 20. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hi,

I need your help, I’m setting up my shopify, I’ve created the collections, added the menus and everything, but everytime I try to edit a page, add the featured products, they show on every other pages.

How can I fix this?

Thanks

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@Flo2802 - the issue is that shopify uses shared templates, so every collection shares very same template and hence very same data is shown on every collection page.

To avoid this you can create separate templates for each collection, which is not feasible if you have many collections

or

you can use page builder app like pagefly to build different pages

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Hello @Flo2802 ,

If you just need different Featured products for each collection I suggest use metafields.
Use metafield to set Featured product with each collection and then get them in the collection template or custom liquid block.

Thanks

4

I quite like the dawn theme and the featured products, how can I modify it in order to keep it as simple as possible.
How can I create a template for every collection?

thanks

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How can’t I do this exactly? I couldn’t find an how-to