Why is my created metafield not showing on home and PDP pages?

Store Design

Topic summary

A user is unable to display certain metafields on their homepage and product detail page (PDP) despite using the Dawn theme. Specifically:

Issues identified:

  • Page metafields (single-line and multi-line text) don’t appear in the homepage’s available metafield list
  • Multi-line product metafield doesn’t show in the PDP list (though single-line product metafield works)

Proposed solutions:

  • One responder suggests the theme may not support these metafield types, though this seems unlikely given Dawn’s capabilities
  • Another successfully displays single-line product metafields using a text block in Dawn
  • For homepage implementation, a workaround involves adding a custom Liquid section with code like {{ shop.metaobjects.type.handle }} for metaobjects or {{ product.metafields.namespace.key }} for product metafields

Key clarification:

  • Page metafields only apply to pages created in Shopify’s Pages admin, not theme templates like the homepage
  • A suggestion emerges for Shopify to add global metafields accessible store-wide without per-object definition

The discussion remains open with no definitive resolution for native block-based homepage metafield display.

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Hi,

I have 2 questions about metafields:

  • I created a metafield I wanted to display in the Home page but it never shows up in the list of available metafields (only the Brand ones are available). Am I doing something wrong?

  • I created a multi-line metafiled that I wanted to display in the PDP. Also in this case this specific metafield don’t show up in list of available metafields (for the record, I managed to add a single line metafield). Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks a lot

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Hi @MaBa ,

I guess your theme does not support the type of metafields you have created. In this case, you should hire an expert to solve your issue

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I’m using theme Dawn and I have already used the same metafields in other pages but I cannot use them in Home and PDP

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hi @MaBa

What type of metafied you created?

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I created 2 product metafields:

  • single-line text. I managed to display it in the PDP
  • multi-line text. I didn’t manage to display it in the PDP

I created 2 page metafields (single-line and multi-line text) and I didn’t manage to display none of them in the Home page

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@MaBa

I created a single-line-type metafied and use Block text to show it. The metafield works fine on Dawn

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I don’t think there is a direct way to add metafields to the homepage ie. with blocks or sections. You can, however, add a custom liquid section. Here you could reference your metafield data. To access the metafield data, you’d input:

{{ shop.metaobjects['type']['handle'] }}
 or 
{{ shop.metaobjects.type.handle }}

into a custom liquid section, to access a metaobject. Replace type and handle with the metaobject’s type and handle.

To access a product metafield, you’d input:

{{ product.metafields.namespace.key }}

Replace namespace and key with the metafield’s namespace and key.

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I need the same

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what about the home page?

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The “page” metafield object only refers to pages you create outside of the theme code using the Pages admin in Shopify. It would be helpful if Shopify could add a global section to settings/custom data so that we can define metafields that are available to the store, except checkout (of course), but don’t need to be defined per object (e.g., product, page, etc.).