Why do I have two different URLs for the same Collection?

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

Issue: Two URLs pointed to the same collection. /collections/journals showed all 5 products; /collections/journals/books showed only 4.

Diagnosis: The “/books” variant wasn’t a separate collection but a tag-filtered view of the Journals collection (Shopify uses /collections/{collection}/{tag} to filter by tag). The extra URL came from a navigation link that included the “books” tag.

Guidance given:

  • Initial suggestion to delete a collection (Products > Collections) was not applicable.
  • Correct approach: Check Online Store > Navigation, edit the Journals menu item, and remove the “books” part from the link so it points only to /collections/journals.

Artifacts: Screenshots were shared to show where in navigation to edit the link.

Outcome: After removing “books” from the Journals menu item link, the unwanted URL was effectively removed, leaving only the desired collection URL.

Status: Resolved; the original poster confirmed the fix worked.

Summarized with AI on January 8. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hello,

I have two URLs for the same Collection, somehow.

*** One shows all 5 products that I have listed in that collection so far >> CosmicSerenityShop.com/collections/journals

xxx The other only shows 4 out of the 5 >> CosmicSerenityShop.com/collections/journals/books

*** Obviously, I want to keep the collections/journals option.

xxx I want to get rid of the collections/journals/books but cannot find where that is to delete it.

Can you help, please?

Jeanne

CosmicSerenityShop.com

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Hi, @JeanneM13 Hope you are doing well please follow the below steps

  • go to Products > Collections.

  • Find the name of the collection that you want to delete.

  • Hit Delete collection.

  • Hit Delete collection in the confirmation box to delete the collection.

Thats it.

Thanks

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@JeanneM13

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Hi @JeanneM13
It looks like you added it in navigation

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Go to the navigation and check for this link, books is a tag on this collection
This is not a separate collection, so just remove books from navigation and then it will work fine
Thanks!

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This is my navigation.

  • Home

    Edit
    Delete

  • Catalog

    Edit
    Delete

    • Buddha Statues

      Edit
      Delete

    • eBooks

      Edit
      Delete

    • Feng Shui

      Edit
      Delete

      • Chimes

        Edit
Delete

      • Tibetan Singing Bowls

        Edit
Delete

      • Other Feng Shui

        Edit
Delete

      • Add menu item to Feng Shui

    • Gift Sets

      Edit
      Delete

    • Healing Energy

      Edit
      Delete

    • Home Study Courses

      Edit
      Delete

    • Journals

      Edit
      Delete

    • Pendulums

      Edit
      Delete

    • Water Fountains

      Edit
      Delete

    • Wind Chimes

      Edit
      Delete

      • Indoor Chimes

        Edit
Delete

      • Outdoor Chimes

        Edit
Delete

      • Add menu item to Wind Chimes

    • Add menu item to Catalog

  • Contact Us

    Edit
    Delete

  • About Us

    Edit
    Delete

  • Add menu item

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Click edit button of journals and you will see that books word, remove it from there

Thanks!

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Finally! THANK YOU! Such a simple, yet elusive, thing. Wow. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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