If you’re using Shopify to sell physical goods, you’ll need to decide how to showcase your products on your shop’s pages. One way to do this is to create a collection for each type of product you sell, and then add those products to the collection. You can then display the collections on your shop’s pages, and potential customers can browse through them to find the products they’re interested in.
There are a few different ways to go about creating collections and adding products to them. You can use the Shopify admin interface, or you can use the Shopify API. If you’re comfortable working with code, using the API might be the best option, as it gives you more control over how your collections and products are displayed.
Once you’ve created your collections and added products to them, you can start displaying them on your shop’s pages. To do this, you’ll need to add some code to your theme.liquid file.
First, you’ll need to find the section of code that defines the page layout. This is usually done with a {% section ‘name’ %} tag. Within that section, you can add a {% include ‘collection-listing’ %} tag to insert a list of all your collections.
You can also add individual collection links anywhere in your theme by using the {% collection_link collection %} tag. This will insert a link to the specified collection, which will take potential customers directly to that collection’s page.
When adding collection links or listings to your theme, you can also use some of Shopify’s built-in options to customize how they’re displayed. For example, you can use the limit option to specify how many collections should be shown, or the order option to control the order in which they’re displayed. You can also specify whether featured collections should be shown first, or if they should be excluded altogether.
Once you’ve added collections to your shop’s pages, potential customers will be able to browse through them and see all the products you have for sale. This makes it easy for them to find what they’re looking for, and makes it more likely that they’ll make a purchase.
