Stripping out product description and data from collection source

Technical Q&A
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I am looking to strip out from the source code all the product data and description that is injected in to the source of any given live collection page. The result is crawlable content that is hidden from the user, which is no good at all.

On the font-end I can manipulate what is shown in the product-grid-item.liquid, but it’s clear this file isn’t directly responsible for injecting all the information in the source.

As a test if I completely comment out the product-template.liquid contents then my collection page source is nice and clean, but of course no product on a product page.

Where can I control product-template.liquid to be not called on explicitly collection pages? Is that possible and could I have an example of what and where please?

2

This is just a guess, but it sounds like maybe the collection page is using the product-template.liquid file to maybe generate a Quick View. See if your theme has an option to turn that off…?

3

Thanks, that was easy!! I don’t come from the store build side of things so unaware of that, until now. Perfect, thank you.