Update January 2024: We’re pleased to be able to share that Product Type is now translatable. More here.
Currently, November 2023, when using the ‘Product type’ filter with Shopify Search & Discovery app, it only functions in a store’s default language and will be hidden in a non default language. This is being worked on and we estimate that product type will be fully translatable for the start of 2024.
In the mean time, this is a workaround to achieve much the same functionality, plus the ability to translate. It does it by creating a metafield that holds the same values, and metafields have translation support. Please note, the original problem of product type not being translatable will be solved; if you use this workaround you would later be wanting to delete it and switch back. So this is only suggested as a short term fix to cover the gap.
I can’t save the values as it says there are invalid values when I’m at the bulk edit page, but I can save the same values on the metafield box at the product page alone. Is it a bug or have I done anything wrong?
Hello @richbrown_staff , I was wondering if there any insights on when will be tags translation added so we don’t need to use metafields anymore in order to achieve more filtering capabilities? Thank you.
Hello @rich , tags translation is still a problem. I’ve translated my site with ‘Translate & Adapt’ and most of it works fine, but ‘Search & Discovery’ filters do only work in the default languaje. In the translated page the tags filters dissapear, the block is missing in the DOM and I can’t find a reason why it doesnt just use the untranslated tags instead of hiding the whole filter. I hope this gets fixed soon. Thanks in advance
