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Collections and filters

Collection links, editorial images, filters and the products per page on collection and search pages.

Online Store › Themes › Customize › Theme settings › Collections and filters

Collections

Collections on a template whose name starts with "category" are categories; on one starting with "look", looks. Looks never appear in collection links or on the collections page.

Collection navigation

Menu

A menu of collections, up to three levels. All products shows its top level; a collection shows its own children, or its siblings when it has none. Without a menu here, a menu with the handle collection-navigation is used, and without either, All products lists your categories.

Editorial image sharpness

Choice · default High

Standard is the smallest file. High keeps fine texture at about twice the size. Highest swaps in your original file after the page loads and can be 1 to 3 MB per image.

Options: Standard, High, Highest

Text on wide images

Choice · default Bottom center

Images 3:2 or wider run the whole row with their words on them, over a fade rising from their side, or an even wash in the middle.

Options: Top left, Top center, Top right, Middle left, Middle center, Middle right, Bottom left, Bottom center, Bottom right

Show collection links

Checkbox · on by default

The links from Theme settings › Collections and filters › Collection navigation.

Show the collection image in the product grid

Checkbox · off by default

A wide tile first in the grid. Only when the page's start doesn't show the collection's image.

Without a menu

Choice · default Show looks featuring these products

Options: Show looks featuring these products, Show nothing

First image after this many products

Slider · 2 to 24 · default 6

Then one every

Slider · 4 to 36 · default 12

Images per page at most

Slider · 1 to 4 · default 2

Filters

Which filters show, their order and their values are set in Shopify's Search and Discovery app; these settings set how they look in Filter and sort.

Show counts

Checkbox · on by default

The number of products beside each value.

Show short values as buttons

Checkbox · on by default

A filter whose values are all five characters or fewer, such as sizes, shows them as a grid of boxes.

Swatches

Choice · default Two columns, with names

For filters shown as swatches in Search and Discovery, or whose values have swatches, such as Color.

Options: Two columns, with names, Swatches only, Rows, with a small swatch

Values before Show all

Slider · 4 to 30 · default 8

A filter with more values shows this many, then Show all. A chosen value further down shows them all.

Filter panel width

Slider · 300px to 700px · default 350px

On desktop. A filter's values open beside it at the same width.

Collection and search pages

Products per page

Slider · 6 to 36 · default 18

Enable filtering

Checkbox · on by default

Customize filters in the Search and Discovery app.

Enable sorting

Checkbox · on by default