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How To Create Metafields In Shopify (2024)
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May 22, 2024
### How To Create Metafields In Shopify (2024) In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to create metafields in Shopify to add custom data fields to your products, collections, or other store entities. Metafields are valuable for adding additional information that is not provided by default in Shopify. The tutorial covers the step-by-step process of setting up metafields using Shopify's built-in tools or third-party apps. You'll discover how to create metafields for various purposes such as adding specifications, additional images, or custom tags to your products. Whether you're a Shopify store owner, developer, or marketer, this guide will help you enhance your store's functionality and improve the organization of your data using metafields in Shopify in 2024.
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How to create Metafields in Shopify
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Hi guys, welcome back to another video, and in this video, I'm going to be telling you how you can create your very own meta fields in Shopify
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So having said that, let's you jump into the video. So over here, as you can see, I have created this little drop-down box
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This is a Metafield. A meta-field is a field that contains more details, right
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So I had created this that will contain the detail of the material used in the products, and you can create more as you see fit
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So let's get started. So first things first, if we come over here and we come into the product section, right
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and the only place where you can actually add details is the title, the description
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and the media box, right? And you can add variations, but that's about it
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You can't add more details to it, right? And in the past, you couldn't create meta fields as well
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You needed to go to the application store and download an app or do coding and stuff
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like that but now they've made meta fields native to Shopify so to enable meta fields what you need to do
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is as you can see right here i have meta fields enabled so to actually get them enabled what you need to do
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is you need to click on the settings option right here at the bottom right corner click over here and
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at the bottom you will see custom data you click on custom data and over here first option will be
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meta fields right and over here you will have meta fields for
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products for variations for variants for collection customers orders locations and many many more you
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will even have meta objects as well if you want to add them but for me i want them to be added for
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products and i've already created two of them right so to create them what you need to do is you
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need to click on add definition all right and over here you add in the name so let's say this is
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the my products are all watches will say banned material Here we go And then we have description You can add description if you want If you want to leave it you can leave it as well Then we just simply select the type and if it a single line text or multi line text It depends on you We just say it a single line text and then over here we can even add limits as well So we just say the minimum is seven right And the maximum is 100
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It depends on you. And then you can just simply click on save and you will have a meta field with the name
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of banned material. And we already have the material ones and we'll change actually this to dial material
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And over here we'll change the length. Increase it to 100 as well
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And minimum can be seven as well. And then we'll click on safe in there we have now too
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I've even had a specifications one where I added the multi-line text as well
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And we have the minimum length of 50 to 1,000 where we can add multiple specifications of the product
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So people don't, you know, worry about it. We can also add another one for different names as well
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So this is how you basically add metafields, right? Now all we need to do is add these meta fields to our product
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So let's close it down right here. We'll open it up over here
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And over here, as you can see, we have the meta field called band material
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So over here, we'll say two types of bands. We'll just say band type over here
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And we'll say leather and a mesh. There we go. And we'll click on save and there we go
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And if we go back, we can add different meta fields to different products as well
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It's not strictly for one product, it's for all products. So we added Metafields to this
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Let's go ahead and add Metafields to this one as well. So as you can see, I added all the information over here in the description, which is not good
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And if we come down here, we have our Metafields as well
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So for that, we'll just go ahead and say, as you can see
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band material type is P-U. We'll just copy that. And over here, BAN Material Type is P-U
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There we go. What about the dial material? That is stainless steel
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So then we come over here and we add that as well
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And if we want to add more stuff to it, we copy all of this and we put it over here
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in specifications because that is where it needed And remove this one because this is like the feature type We add that to the description So and over here we remove everything else like so
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And we'll only keep this single paragraph. And then we'll just simply click on save
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And we should have our metafield save as well. I'll delete these two right here
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Now that's pretty much it. But we do have to, you know, add these meta fields to each product
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otherwise it won't work so we already added this to here and here and we need to add our
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meta fields into other products as well that way the information will be shown as well and i will
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show you how you can do that and add meta fields when you're in the product how you can add
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meta fields in the product page as well but before that let me just add one more right here so over
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here we have the band material type we'll just copy that and over here we'll add
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add that to the band material. And then we want the dial as well
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Dial material is stainless steel. We added that and then we add the specifications
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that we have right here. So we just simply copy that and we add it right here
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We can go ahead and add a description if we want to, but it depends on you
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All right, now that we've added metaphils to most of our products
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let's go ahead and add them into our product page. So for that, what you need to do is just simply go to your online store, right
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And go into theme and click on customize. And over here at the top drop down, click on product and select default products
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Right. Go to the product page. And over here, as you can see, I've already added ones here
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Let's go ahead and add another one. So for this, we need to add a collapsible row
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So for that, underneath templates, right, you want to click on add block
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So you click on Add Blog and over here you will have a bunch of different options, right
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You will also have a collapsible row right here or pop up if you want to
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It depends on you. You click on collapsible row and it will automatically add a collapsible row right here
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So as you can see right here, then what we can do is we can name it
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We don even really have to change the headings We can give it a different name Let say the specs right or specifications right here
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And we give it a different check name. I don't over here, we give it a check or an icon as well
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We can give it pretty cool icons. So it depends on you
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Like they have apple, banana, bottle, carrot, checkmark, chat bubble, clipboard as well
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I'll go with the clipboard. I think that would look pretty cool. Yeah, specifications will have clipboard
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Now, to add the content, you could add, you know, go ahead and add it manually or type it
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but I feel like for that you would have to do it every single time
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So for insert dynamic source, we're going to click over here. Insert dynamic source
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And over here, we're going to choose specifications. And that's it. We just simply click on save
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and let's go ahead and take a view there we go as you can see we now have all the
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specifications that were related to this product pretty simple right now let's go ahead
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and take a view as well let's view at these products in the website so we now added it right
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here we'll click on preview on online store and scroll down we have specifications there
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we go we have all the specifications that we need we even have the material as well we can add
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other meta fields if you want to, but this is generally how you add meta fields to your Shopify store
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Simply go to settings, go to custom data, go choose the meta field you want to add to
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choose product, add the definition of the meta field, go to the product, scroll to the bottom
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find the metafields, add the details you want to save, go to the product page, add the collapsible
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row underneath templates and just add the name, add the icon, and click on dynamic sources
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and select the source you want. And that's it. So that's how you add meta fields to your Shopify stores. So that is it for this video. I hope you guys
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enjoy this video. If you have any questions, let me know in the comment section is down below
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and I'll be sure to answer them as soon as possible. So having said that, I will catch you guys the next video. And until then, take care and goodbye
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