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Create tag filter groups in Shopify. This snippet is designed to group and separate out collection tags. It requires the tags to share a common value prepended to the tag with an underscore. E.g. to create a separate tag filter group for 'brands', each product will need to be tagged with 'brand_Nike' or 'brand_Reebok'. Some of this is probably l…
{% if template contains 'collection' and collection.all_tags.size > 1 %}
<!-- A recursive loop to catch and filter out the different tag categories -->
{% assign c = 0 %}
{% for t in collection.all_tags %}
{% capture cat %}{{ cat }}{% capture temp_cat %}{% if t contains '_' %}{% assign cat_grp = t | split: '_' %}{{ cat_grp.first }}{% endif %}{% endcapture %}{% unless cat contains temp_cat %}{% if t contains '_' %}{% assign new_cat_grp = t | split: '_' %}{{ new_cat_grp.first }}{% endif %}{% unless forloop.last %}+{% endunless %}{% assign c = c | plus: 1 %}{% endunless %}{% endcapture %}
{% endfor %}
<!-- create array of tag categories -->
{% assign cat_array = cat | split: '+' %}
<!-- loop through tag categories -->
{% for i in cat_array %}
<!-- ignore if tag category is empty -->
{% unless i == '' %}
<h5>Filter by {{ i }}</h5>
<ul class="nav">
<!-- loop through collection tags -->
{% for t in collection.all_tags %}
<!-- if tag contains the category title -->
{% if t contains i %}
<!-- strip out tag category prefix and add/remove link for tag filtering -->
{% if current_tags contains t %}
<li>{{ t | remove: i | remove: '_' | append: '&nbsp;x' | link_to_remove_tag: t }}</li>
{% else %}
<li>{{ t | remove: i | remove: '_' | link_to_add_tag: t }}</li>
{% endif %}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</ul>
{% endunless %}
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
@clauuudiu
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Hello,
I am pretty new to shopify, and I would like to ask.. where should I put this code, in order to get this functionality?
Thank you

@rlfrahm
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rlfrahm commented Oct 27, 2019

Thanks for this! Works just as described!

@couteauxcollection
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Hello,
I have a theme I really like but I really need to use a group filter. Supply make it but it not very nice. Where do I have to add this code please ? I tried in several places but it doesn't work

@KeithBradley
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hi - this is a great snippet, I ended up making a few modifications to it so filters can be drilled down when clicked and also appear as check boxes.

https://github.com/KeithBradley/Shopify_Collection_Filters

@SajiJohnMiranda
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SajiJohnMiranda commented Mar 13, 2021

Hi Darryn
Can I see it working on your website since I am not much a technical person to understand how this works.
Also, should I include the above code in the collection.liquid fie ?

Thanks
John

@KeithBradley
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Hi John,

I've just added a video to the https://github.com/KeithBradley/Shopify_Collection_Filters repo to show how it works.

An example site using this is https://bertieandminnie.co.uk/collections/fragrance

Thanks
Keith

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