Symmetry theme: Issues filtering collection and search pages with some metafields

Store Design
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I am trying to set up our store’s filtering functionality for products with Shopify’s native filtering capabilities that Online Store 2.0 now supports. We want to use metafields for this. I have configured (3) metafields that are rendering in the filters. However, the additional (5) metafields I added afterward did not render.

By “configure”, I mean:

  • metafields have been defined and have values for products in relevant collections
  • metafields are all single_line_text data type which Shopify filters should accept to my knowledge
  • metafields are TRUE for “expose this metafield to Storefront API requests”
  • metafields have been added to Online Store>Navigation>Collection and Search Filters

I have tried removing the 3 metafield filters that were working. The (5) that are not rendering still did not work. We have one collection page linked to navigation that uses filtering by tags, but we don’t need the metafield filtering on this collection page. All other collection pages in Navigation do not have tag filtering set up.

Does anyone have any ideas of settings, variables I am not considering that are conflicting with these metafields for use in the filter? Is it a theme setting?

Thank you!

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Shopify Filter and Theme may have this limitation. It’s unarguable that Shopify OS 2.0 Filter is excellent and suitable for many stores. However, when you have many fields and items, you may need an advanced filter app. Please check this app out https://apps.shopify.com/ultimate-search-and-filter-1. It let you add an unlimited number of metafield filters. You can add product and variant metafield filters in this app by following the steps below:

  • Go to App settings => Search index

  • Click on Add metafield or Add variant metafield

  • Go to Filter groups / then Add filter. You will then see your metafield filters listed on the dropdown list.