I am having a problem with the product information fields - dimensions, washing care, etc. When I select a product and enter dimensions for example, all’s good, but when I select another product and go to add dimensions I find the dimensions for the previous product. The two products are not in the same collection. When I change that one, the same field in the previous product changes too. Any idea what’s going on and how to fix this? Many thanks!
Hi there @wendy11 . I can definitely help you out with this.
Where are you currently adding the dimension information? Are you doing this within your theme editor? For context, when you make changes in your theme editor you are editing a specific template which is then applied to the pages, products, etc. that you create within your Shopify Admin. When you make a change to your product page in your theme editor, you are actually editing your Default product template which is automatically applied to all of your product pages (unless you manually change the template that’s being used). This means that when you add text into the “Dimensions” area in your theme editor, you are adding that text to every page using that product page template (which is all of your products, by default). You can read more about templates on this page here.
Instead of editing your product information in your theme editor, you will want to edit this information on the product’s information page in your Shopify Admin. You can get there by going to Products and selecting the product you want to edit. That being said, for the “dimensions” and “washing care” dropdown areas, there isn’t a space built into your Shopify Admin where you can enter that information. This is where using metafields comes in. You can use metafields to help you save and display information that isn’t usually captured in the Shopify Admin. This page here explains more about setting up and using metafields.
To use metafields there are ultimately three steps:
- Create the metafield definition following these steps here.
- Add the metafield value to the correct part of your store following these steps here.
- Connect metafields to your theme to display specialized information on your online store following these steps here.
I’ve included an example of what these steps may look like below:
Step 1: Create metafield definition
Step 2: Add metafield value to the correct part of your store (the product page in this example)
Step 3: Connect metafield to your theme
Please let me know if you have any other questions. I’m happy to help further!
Thank you for being so thorough! What stumped me was the concept of a theme editor which doesn’t exist in the Debut theme I am currently using. This information will be extremely useful. Many thanks.