Shopify 2.0 Metafields Tutorial (Real Store Examples)

[@EdCodes]

OTHER OPTIONS feature tutorial - kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5y9Y5ePq9-qg8U Bulk Edit Metafields - kzbin.info/www/bejne/roS8Yp6qnq-eo5o

[@demariw1004]

Question, the meta limit is 20 but I’m trying to add more multi-line and single-line text to a meta fill but since 20/20 is pinned, I’m not able to add more multi/single lines to a new metafields, how do I resolve this?

[@rstephenhoover6095]

New shopify store owner/user/designer. I could not make sense of how the metafields get used to create a product page flow. This explanation video was excellent. Just what I needed to know to move forward. Thank you very much, Ed.

[@mattschroeder1100]

This was a very helpful explanation of metafields, thank you! I am trying to fully grasp their potential - as someone who's a store owner but NOT a dev

[@JenniferColeman1]

Thank you for actually explaining metafields the other guys videos he talked as though he wasn't speaking German to us non programmers. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU very useful kept it up!

[@anapaola8373]

Great tutorial, this is actually the first time i understand metafields lol

[@philipzwart6449]

Some of the best free content on KZbin, thank you very much!

[@rhysroberts1503]

Thanks for this! Best metafields tutorial I've watched.

[@jenileemundy268]

Really appreciate you making this video. looking forward to working with metafields for the first time.

[@pearlseafoodexports2938]

Awesome video Ed.. Cheers mate

[@chelsabailey1018]

Really appreciate this video! Thanks for posting!!

[@biz4eg]

Freaking Godsend!! I was so confused until I found your videos, Thank You!!

[@hannahlandxo]

Your videos are awesome, thank you!

[@EdCodes]

UPDATE: Here's how to BULK EDIT METAFIELDS when you have lots of products - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pF6tn4Z6p6mnY5Y

[@sidneycandia]

great content my friend. i was looking for it all over. new subscriber!

[@cristibouldin8940]

You made that so simple, thanks so much!!

[@patrics.5451]

I really learned a lot so far from your tutorials. As you have ask in one of them, what could be interesting: I did not find a solution so far for a logo list for the homepage. Images in columns that are linked to collections (or something else). Have a good weekend.

[@sheanathan3566]

Thank you Ed. This was very helpful.

[@mick3027-i4d]

Thank you !! These work and are amazing 😍

[@Casambu.Vanlife.E-shop]

Thanks a lot for the explanations. Very helpful !

[@katalinnemeth6402]

Thank you so much! It was really helpful!

[@user-vw2kt2wz5v]

Extremely helpful tutorial. Great job! Do more for sure. Thank you.

[@jin6000]

Dude, thank you so much for making these videos. Super helpful.

[@booooom-jackson]

his was super helpful and very well explained. Thank you!

[@phillanglois5176]

Very helpful, thanks a lot!

[@caninespirit8356]

This is great - thanks! I see how easy it is to add 'text' metafields - But you showed us examples of Fresh Ego Kid use metafields to show 'Other Options' and 'Complete the Look'. It's straightforward to set up the 'complete the look' metafield using 'list of products' and this now shows on the individual product pages. But how do I make it 'live' using Impulse theme? I can see where you can dynamically add a text block. But how do I add a block to show the 'complete the look' photos? (which 'block type' would pull in this metafield?) Hopefully this makes sense,

[@lemonchicken3740]

Thanks for sharing, super helpful. Can you use metafields for custom variant options?

[@finelimedesigns]

This was super helpful and very well explained. Thank you!

[@celineng9081]

Thank you! It is very useful and easy to understand!

[@willkanoff]

Thanks, great tut! Keep up the good work!

[@bmfitzgerald3]

Nice video, thanks! What if you wanted the "Fabric:" label to be multilingual. Any tips for that?

[@EdCodes]

You can use the Shopify Translate & Adapt app to translate metafield values. Check out my recent video titled "Big Shopify Update 2023" where I demo a bit of this app.

[@mrsahibgrover]

Please give a tutorial on other options!! Thanks

[@ornamentallyyou]

Thanks for the video! Metafields are an interesting dynamic that we will definitely apply to our store.

[@jayranpariya5416]

hey i want to do "complete the look " type of metafield on my site how can i do that

[@federicorekowski9252]

Hello, first thanks so much for all your videos they are super informative. I got a question is there any way to only show some variations depending of your location ? I sell framed prints in Australia but I want to sell prints only without a frame to any other country in the world. Thanks so much all the best

[@NeuzaTeixeira]

Your content is great and very well explained. Thank you very much.

[@EdCodes]

Thank you! That's very nice to hear!

[@Fedgery007]

Great video. So helpful!

[@somayehtorabi-tw7yi]

Very useful, thank you

[@jhoaeu]

Great Video! I love the Tabs Fresh ego Kid has on their product description. Do you have a tutorial how you got those product tabs?

[@livinlifeco]

Thanks for this video!!! Do you have a video for adding filters for the blog on Shopify? Like I want to filter on different categories.

[@AshleyGriffyn]

Can you make a tutorial on how to make the “Complete The Look” bit? I’m having trouble making it myself.

[@comanadrian554]

Lifesaver, thanks man!

[@victorugalde7088]

Thanks for the videos! How i can get thats metafields in the cart or the order detail to have a portability of said data, in my order? I need them to better understand what product I am selling at the time I consolidate the package. Thank man!

[@EdCodes]

Hey, welcome! I'm not sure I understand your situation - is it information the customer should choose? Like an engraving or gift note? Then you dont need metafields for that, you need line item properties. Can you tell me about your product and what data you need?

[@victorugalde7088]

@@EdCodes thanks Ed, no, is not information the customer should choose, is it a metafiled i need to press in the cart and the order.

[@stylinspirit]

I am new to shopify and am on the starter plan so I have very limited choices. Is there a way to use metaobjects to add fields to my product pages that I can then use to add sorting to my storefront? I would like to be able to sort by a store category and primary color. I don't have the ability to establish collections.

[@livinlifeco]

Do you have a video for adding filters for the blog on Shopify? Like I want to filter on different categories.

[@DimisWelt]

Hi Ed, thank you very much for your tutorials! They are very valuable and easy to understand. Do you think, you can do one for Variant Metafields - what can they be used for?

[@Ddtmovie]

We need short description featured collection using metafields, can you help me please 🙏

[@EdCodes]

Not sure what you mean, can you give an example?

[@Franandphotos]

Hi - thanks for this tutorial. Is there a way to create a 'template' meta field so that you can use the same information for multiple products?

[@Diccolo91]

I work for a PIM company and we can do that in the PIM and have it syndicated to Shopify, so I imagine that you can do that somewhere in Shopify!

[@360private]

Would love to see a tutorial of you 'Other Options' metafield

[@EdCodes]

Coming soon!

[@360private]

@@EdCodes Amazing!

[@sebastiant4206]

@@EdCodes Is it up?

[@omniarte]

Thank you very much for your videos. I was wondering how to hide the static content (in your example "Fabric") if I don't want to add text to this metafield in the backend. For example, if a product is not made of fabric but of metal. Thank you for your reply.

[@EdCodes]

Hi, you don't have to put any static text inside that field in settings. It will just be the metafield data. I might have misunderstood though, you don't want to show the word 'metal' at all?

[@omniarte]

@@EdCodes Hi, thank you for your fast reply. I took a bad example. I'll try again with another example. In the product template I create two metafields. Metafield 1 static content= diameter. Metafield 2 static content= length. The products I want to create are a ring and a necklace. For the ring I fill the metafield 1 with the diameter. Metafield 2 is not filled because the ring has no length.For the necklace it is exactly the opposite. Both static contents are displayed in the frontend. One of them has no dynamic content and the field remains empty. In this case, I want to hide the static content from an unfilled metafield so that it does not appear in the frontend. Is there this possibility with Shopify (Dawn Theme). Thank you for your help.

[@EdCodes]

​@@omniarte Ok I see what you mean, this is a good question. I think I will make a video about it. But yes it's possible, you will need to use the custom liquid block and output your metafield inside an if statement. Do you mind sharing your store URL so I can recreate the exact situation in my testing store? Either here in comments or email me at [e-mail]. Thanks!

[@omniarte]

@@EdCodes Hi, thank you for your reply. A video would be great. I don't have a live shop yet.I am new to Shopify and trying the possibilities that Shopify (Dawn Theme) offers. Before I tried it with Wordpress-Elementor-WooCommerce etc., but the constant updates and managing the many plugins is too much work.

[@oredi2159]

Can you do this on Brooklyn theme or do I need to change to Dawn

[@saleskhan9316]

Hello. I am using a (booster 2.2.1) theme and I having difficulty setting this up because I don't have the option (add block) at 14:14 time of this video. Can anyone recommend any other video's to overcome this issue. It seems the metafield feature only works with a few themes. I hope someone can guide into the right direction.

[@EdCodes]

Hi, booster 2.2.1 is a few years old I think. It is not ready for Shopify 2.0 features like I show in this video. I recommend upgrading to the latest version of Booster. It is already at 6.0.5

[@mirrormirrorcosmeticco]

can you please explain how to use the Variant metafields and display different info for every variant?

[@EdCodes]

Hmm, well it's almost the same as for products. Go to Settings > Metafields, and there you see Products, Variants, Collections etc... So go into Variants and define a new metafield. After that, you can go into any product that has variants, and click on the Edit button next to the variant to enter the Variant editor, scroll down and you should be able to see the new metafield at the bottom of the page.

[@lnkerco]

Hi ! It seems most of the Shopify themes only support DYNAMIC SOURCE for TEXT metafields, not for FILE metafields. When would the theme developers probably come up with that up to date?

[@GooglyMcDoubleface]

Does this help make the sales because when I post a product up I’m not sure about other items I know for books will this get the sale besides the pictures

[@giacasso]

Hi Ed, how come that it is not possible to click on a metafield to be redirected to a filter search of products with that metafield? İt does it in the filter; why not link to that from the product page? what am I missing? Thank you!

[@patrics.5451]

Could for a "complete the Look" function also a matafield with productlist work? How can I display them frontend? Thank you

[@EdCodes]

Complete the look tutorial is coming soon! Meanwhile, you might like this tutorial on the "Other options" block, which is really similar - kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5y9Y5ePq9-qg8U

[@janetfulay3786]

Amazing! Thank you

[@albi55uk]

Your only aloud 20 metafileds, is there a way to add more?

[@romesaint]

Thank you Ed!

[@sweetyarnsstore]

This video was super helpful! Thanks so much for putting it together. I'm good with the text metafields now but I can't seem to get a URL one to work. Is there something special for those?

[@EdCodes]

What are you trying to do with it?

[@sweetyarnsstore]

@@EdCodes I'm trying to link my suppliers website so customers can see other colour options available.

[@sweetyarnsstore]

@@EdCodes I'm trying to link to my supplier's website to show more colour options.

[@teamarkovik4901]

Hi Ed, thanks for the tutorial. I have a very important question, please take a look and let me know if you know the answer. Why is the video file metafiled not working when I try to add different videos to each product page? I can only pull dynamic source for the cover image and the alt text but the video on its own does not give the opportunity to be pulled from a dynamic file source even though I have already uploaded and assigned videos to every product from their respective product page. Thank you in advance.

[@topshelftequilaaustralia1709]

Is it possible to add a metafield filter where a product has multiple values. for example if a product was made from "glass" and "meta". I want a filter called "Materials" and I want that product to filter on both "glass" and "Metal"

[@EdCodes]

Yeah that should be pretty straightforward to setup using the new 2.0 filtering system. Just define the metafield and add both metal and glass to the product. Then add the metafield filter under Online Store > Navigation

[@Nomeetaali]

Is there any way to have variant-specific information in PDP? Let's say I have a variant called Size and it has 3 options, Large, Medium, and Small. Now what I want to show is a piece of text snippet depending on which options I'm currently selecting. Each text snippet is different and which one will be visible will depend on which option is currently selected. Is there any way I can set the variant's options metafield like this? Thanks in advance.

[@catherineprimeau7876]

Thank you so much for that video! I was wondering how do you do to have the COMPLETE THE LOOK and OTHER OPTIONS sections? Does it need coding?

[@EdCodes]

For that exact look and function, yes it would require coding. However you can set up something similar to 'Other Options' in most Shopify 2.0 themes by using the "featured product" section on the product page, or by installing a cross-sell app that works almost the same way. For 'Complete the look' there are apps that allow manual selection of products for the recommended products section. Custom coded is the cleanest solution though.

[@vladpopov9157]

​@@EdCodes I followed your video closely and agree custom code is the best way for this. Please can you show us how to display the "product reference" metafield. After I create it and select a product as a reference product, I don't see it as an option when adding a block in the product section, and of course I don't see it on the product page either. Thank you

[@keuhatt]

@@EdCodes Thank you for your quick response! I looked at the options you suggested, but they don't suit what I need. I really need to identify specific products that have product related variants. I'm comfortable modifying the code on my own, however I need to know the steps. If you are comfortable sharing them with me, I would be very happy to add this very useful element to my shop. If you're not comfortable with sharing this, there is no problem, I will understand. Thank you so much for your help.

[@EdCodes]

@@vladpopov9157 What type of block are you adding? If you are adding a text block then it wont know what to do with that metafield information, so it's not available. If you are adding the 'featured product' block type, then this should accept a product reference metafield.

[@EdCodes]

@@keuhatt Hi Catherine, do you have web development experience? It's not an easy modification. I could show you my code but to adapt it to your theme you need to know HTML, CSS and Liquid.

[@sebastiant4206]

Please make a tutorial on how to set up that Similar products field. That would be amazing!

[@EdCodes]

Hey, you might like this video for related products - kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5y9Y5ePq9-qg8U - it uses the product reference metafield.

[@Geniequote]

Where do you find these type of product? I only know printful…

[@HB-sk5bc]

Hi i have 19 different products which has different description and ingrediens (Cosmetics Products) so do i need to create 19 metafields? or how to do easiest?

[@joelagioia5882]

Extremely helpful videos! Do you know if the Metafields can be sorted either in the settings or on the product page? It seems that they are sorted by creation timeline.

[@joserobertoap]

Hello and Thanks for the video, I would like to know if is possible to have the metafields on the description of the product? We have lots of product and not time for writing a description, that's the reason we're trying to used 8 metafields as description. Please let me know if is possible. Thanks Jose'-

[@EdCodes]

Hi Jose, are you using a Shopify OS 2.0 theme? If yes, you can output the metafields in the same place as the product description. If not, then you will probably need the help of a developer to get this done by modifying theme code.

[@joserobertoap]

@@EdCodes I was able to do it thanks to this video.

[@joserobertoap]

@@EdCodes Thanks for your help, I was able to do it. The case now is it's not recognized as description, of course is shown at the store but not in any 3rd party site like Facebook Merchant. How can that situation be fixed?

[@dawns9364]

Okay so what do we click on after customize? It doesnt go to a product like you are showing. It goes to the themes.

[@HappyDogBarkery]

I see the metafield in the dynamic list if it is a single line text. But for a multi-line text, it does not show in the list. Thanks for the video, it did help me understand metafields.

[@blakeryan3891]

Very helpful! Can you do this same thing on a product grid page? Perhaps add a subtitle for each product on product grid page.

[@andressaakie4031]

Sorry I didn't understand it, what's the difference between using the description on normal way and this metafield? I changed my theme from venture to dawn recently, erasing what a wrote before and redoing all description on this way do not seems practical.

[@EdCodes]

The point is not to use metafields for the description but rather if you want other bits of information positioned on other parts of the product page (not all together in the description part). I'm filming another video where I demonstrate with ingredient lists formatted nicely in a table. Definitely don't use metafields if you don't have a need for them!

[@andressaakie4031]

@@EdCodes thanks for the explanation!

[@adriansomor]

great video!

[@ocbosco_]

Anyone know how to export a customer list to include metafields? Thanks!

[@ukreto]

Dear Sir, I want add similar product metafield in my site, but i did not how to do? Please help us!

[@yurainatien7097]

First, thank you so much for your video. I'm practicing on shoptify design and the metafield explanation may help me a lot. May I ask, for the metafield Text, is there anyway to make it bold or customize?? I understand we can mix with the Text block to customize, but, the text block seems to apply to all Product Listing Page while I aim for only specific page. I currently on Warehouse Themes. Thank you and hope you doing well to create more helpful contents.

[@adrianpillai5683]

While I've successfully used metafields for my new shopify store, I'm not able to figure out why, when using the #integer option the selection does not show up in 'shopify search & discovery.' Essentially I'm trying to create a filter that helps sort foods by protein content. (the field only shows up when the 'single line text' opt is used).

[@talfrei]

Is the SKU already a metafield? How can I display it on the product page?

[@EdCodes]

It's already a built-in field yes, but SKU is unique for each variant (like color, size), not the entire product. So if your product doesn't have variants its easy - you can display it using {{ product.variants.first.sku }}. If your product does have variants you need to loop through them like this : {%for variant in product.variants %} {{variant.sku }} {% endfor %} But you need to wrap the sku in some html depending on how you want to display them.

[@stanleylee5997]

really helpful！❤

[@TJ-TJ]

Have you tried if it works with variants?

[@EdCodes]

Yes, variant metafields work almost the same way. Except to edit them you need to go into the admin product page and then into each variant to see those fields.

[@RazuAhmed21]

Should i have change in every products If Fabrics are not same ? @Ed Code

[@陈旺-e8z]

Hi dude, I'm a shopify developer and I want to build a review app, I want to insert star reviews into the product list page, I've seen some apps that use METAFIELDS, but I don't know if the source fields can be linked to the backend interface, do you have any ideas

[@EdCodes]

Hey I don't really know much about back-end dev, sorry, but I definitely think that should be possible. Where else are you meant to retrieve additional product info from? shopify.dev/apps/metafields

[@Human_Evolution-]

Great job.

[@zdr5bkvs9]

You are talking about a big store with many products, how many products would it be? Do 500 products are considered a big store, I don't have any cue on this. I will have 400 or so in my store.

[@lorienunn7720]

Is the Dawn theme a 2.0?

[@EdCodes]

Yes - Dawn as well as Craft, Sense, Crave, Taste, Studio - are all the free Shopify 2.0 themes. They are all basically the same theme though.

[@jenniferroman8573]

Thank you!

[@GeorgeVuckovich3]

I just bought some of your Gumroad products to thank you for these videos. You are a LIFESAVER. Wishing you much success. Appreciate all of your fantastic content, Ed!

[@EdCodes]

Thank you George! I appreciate your support!

[@pawanunique500]

Excellent :)

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[@lucasmadrok]

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[@OrdersGreenGoddessBath]

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[@allup2934]

get to the point man...

[@EdCodes]

I know

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[@prosecco6690]

Thank you so much, this was very helpful.